Inn Bermuda
Having lost everything to the IRS, a wealthy New York executive couple is forced to start all over again with nothing… in the heart of the Bermuda Triangle!
When corporate executive REED LANG loses his best friend and partner of 16 years, SAM WATERS, he and his materialistic wife CRYSTAL are devastated to learn that instead of receiving a huge inheritance, all of their corporate assets, including their home, are seized by the IRS. The only property the IRS can’t touch is an offshore resort they didn’t know about, the Inn Bermuda.
The couple is ecstatic to inherit this tropical resort… until they actually see it. The ram-shackled hotel has been closed for over a year due to bizarre ‘Bermuda Triangle’ happenings. Having lost everything, they are thrust into this new culture to try to make it a thriving resort, while testing their own intestinal fortitude and the strength of their marriage while searching for their own true happiness.
Arriving at the Inn Bermuda, they meet the intimidating, but laid back, island native MARLEY ROBERTS, an avid Voodoo practitioner and custodian of the inn. He elaborates on the Bermuda Triangle’s eerie influences, (“It’s a Triangle Thing, Mon!”) which are dismissed by the Langs as folklore, until YOSHI SAKURA, a World War 2 Japanese soldier enters the hotel, and tries to take everyone hostage, thinking it’s still war-torn 1942. Ultimately, Yoshi gets hired on at the Inn, trying to acclimate to his new surroundings.
To no avail, BECKY PRICE, a young and overzealous marketing professional tries to secure a job at the Inn Bermuda, as there is no business yet. But when three college guys enter the inn to check it out, she quickly fabricates a story that there’s a swimsuit contest on their beach this weekend to get them to stay, launching the beginning of many a web of deceit, which will either make or break her chance of securing a job there, as well as the inn’s survival. Can she pull this all together by the weekend?
Competing for business with the neighboring Royal Reef Resort, the Langs are immediately sued by MARTIN SIMMS III, the boorish Englishman who manages the competing resort because of Becky’s unscrupulous methods and efforts in stealing guests from his resort with hope of bringing the swimsuit contest to fruition and get the Inn Bermuda more guests… at any cost.
Marley Roberts’ best friend, CAPTAIN WAKE, is a washed out beachcomber who owns the beach’s only Jet Ski rental kiosk. It’s an opportunity to do business with the Inn Bermuda again, now that it’s reopened. However, there are still problems from tourists vanishing in the Bermuda Triangle while on his Jet Skis. Sometimes they come back, as is evident by the second day the Lang’s are at the resort.
Against all odds and tensions, Voodoo rituals, vast cultural differences, and supernatural happenings (It’s a Triangle thing, Mon!”), the ensemble strives to turn the Inn Bermuda into a thriving tropical resort.
Can Reed & Crystal’s marriage survive these tests of hardships, especially when Becky is falling in love with Reed and giving him the support his wife won’t? The resolutions can only come from beyond the grave… or so it seems.
The couple is ecstatic to inherit this tropical resort… until they actually see it. The ram-shackled hotel has been closed for over a year due to bizarre ‘Bermuda Triangle’ happenings. Having lost everything, they are thrust into this new culture to try to make it a thriving resort, while testing their own intestinal fortitude and the strength of their marriage while searching for their own true happiness.
Arriving at the Inn Bermuda, they meet the intimidating, but laid back, island native MARLEY ROBERTS, an avid Voodoo practitioner and custodian of the inn. He elaborates on the Bermuda Triangle’s eerie influences, (“It’s a Triangle Thing, Mon!”) which are dismissed by the Langs as folklore, until YOSHI SAKURA, a World War 2 Japanese soldier enters the hotel, and tries to take everyone hostage, thinking it’s still war-torn 1942. Ultimately, Yoshi gets hired on at the Inn, trying to acclimate to his new surroundings.
To no avail, BECKY PRICE, a young and overzealous marketing professional tries to secure a job at the Inn Bermuda, as there is no business yet. But when three college guys enter the inn to check it out, she quickly fabricates a story that there’s a swimsuit contest on their beach this weekend to get them to stay, launching the beginning of many a web of deceit, which will either make or break her chance of securing a job there, as well as the inn’s survival. Can she pull this all together by the weekend?
Competing for business with the neighboring Royal Reef Resort, the Langs are immediately sued by MARTIN SIMMS III, the boorish Englishman who manages the competing resort because of Becky’s unscrupulous methods and efforts in stealing guests from his resort with hope of bringing the swimsuit contest to fruition and get the Inn Bermuda more guests… at any cost.
Marley Roberts’ best friend, CAPTAIN WAKE, is a washed out beachcomber who owns the beach’s only Jet Ski rental kiosk. It’s an opportunity to do business with the Inn Bermuda again, now that it’s reopened. However, there are still problems from tourists vanishing in the Bermuda Triangle while on his Jet Skis. Sometimes they come back, as is evident by the second day the Lang’s are at the resort.
Against all odds and tensions, Voodoo rituals, vast cultural differences, and supernatural happenings (It’s a Triangle thing, Mon!”), the ensemble strives to turn the Inn Bermuda into a thriving tropical resort.
Can Reed & Crystal’s marriage survive these tests of hardships, especially when Becky is falling in love with Reed and giving him the support his wife won’t? The resolutions can only come from beyond the grave… or so it seems.
Comments (23)
Don Saparina This is way TOO easily suitable for a television format, which you yourself said it was originally intended for. So, maybe you should stick to developing it strictly for that, and not so much for a feature film. I honestly can't see this working too well for the mainstream film crowds. More quirky than laugh-out-loud funny(to me anyway). It seems at times like it should actually be a cartoon. If in live-action, it might come across as too childish. I think there was an earlier post that compared this to "Saved by the Bell", and I can see what they mean. Don't get me wrong, that's not necessarily a bad thing. Just not too good for the movies, that's all. :)
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The Bad Luck Gal! You have no luck! Sorry!
March 8, 2010William Stephens Sorry. No go!
March 6, 2010William Stephens ... and don't forget to throw up another fake 5-tar rating to get you to the top of the list. Be quick though, because there are a lot of other contestants doing the same thing. Please HURRY!
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Robert Dobbins Man, that read like an episode of "Saved by the Bell". C-H-E-E-S-Y! Did you really have to keep putting "Mon" at the end of everything the Jamaican said? At first I thought it was the abbreviation for Monday, and I'm like "why the hell is he talking to Monday... who the hell is Monday? Oh, he has an accent. Oh, okay." It made for a sloppy read. The humor seems TOO campy and dated, like an old T.V. show. Which is what I noticed you were originally going for. Maybe you should stick to that medium. This could be a straight to DVD movie... at best. Definitely not feature film quality. Not for Lionsgate anyways.
March 5, 2010Steven Bloome Robert, you are certainly entitled to your opinion. After all, this is a "social contest" and tastes will be different from one reader to the next.
March 5, 2010i do find it interesting, however, that the majority of "one-star comments" on my concept, as well as many others', come from people who list "writer" in their bio, but haven't submitted a single project here, while those who had given more well thought out critiques (good or bad) are writer who have actually finished screenplays. Most are in this contest.
All art forms are subjective to one's taste and screenwriting is no different. I'd be very curious to see the scripts (if any) that you and the other "too-eager to pass a one-star judgment" have written.
If I am wrong, and I just couldn't find ANY projects here that you submitted, please send me a link so I can read your work. So far, the one "PhotoShopped" image in your "media" link is all I could find from you.
Thanks, Robert.
Robert Dobbins Oh gimme a break. Don't get all huffy now. If you played detective a little longer, you would have realized that I just signed up like 20 minutes ago, and don't really have ample enough time to submit something to this contest... nor would I. I don't write comedies. If Massify opts to spring up a Horror contest on us, then you'll definitely have something from me. While I do like some comedy, it's nothing like the drivel I've seen on this site so far. Everything is just rehashed, and over-used jokes. Nothing new anyways. I don't mind if things have similarities to other already existing movies, but they'd obviously have to be related to something I like to begin with. Shit, God knows nothing coming out lately is even remotely original, but it still should offer SOMETHING new. Don't you think. What exactly does this story offer in the way of something new, except a new writer. And don't try to question my abilities as a writer, just because I don't have something put up on this precious site. That doesn't mean a damn thing. Like this site is the determinating factor in film-making. Don't be naive. Like you said it's a "social contest", and I'm just here as an observer. So, don't go calling people out like this, it just makes you look insecure with yourself and your abilities.
March 5, 2010And as for my "photo-shopped" images, they don't mean shit. I did those up like 2 seconds before I singed up. That's how much this site means to me.
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Bethany McNeal It has potential to be a good movie.
March 4, 2010Joey Biagio So...it has potential to be a good movie..and you gave it a one star....uhhhhhhhh
March 4, 2010Mei-ling Mee I don't get it. Seems like a kids show or something. Not an adult movie. Not for me. Sorry.
March 4, 2010But good luck.