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SIGNS FOLLOWING

A man returns to the Kentucky hills after his father's murder. His mother wants him to take up snake handling. His friend needs a favor. He should leave. He doesn't.

Written with Dub Cornett. Under option to Max Wong / Pink Slip Pictures.

COLORBLIND

Thriller set in N.Y. art world. Actor pretending to be a painter gets involved in murder. And sex. And betrayal.

104 DEGREES

Last week of the fall of Saigon. Ticking clock. STAGECOACH in reverse. Seven people try to get out as the city burns down around them. They either do, or do not, end up on the last chopper out.

MUMBO JUMBO

New Orleans. Weird comedy. Nebbishy hit man kills his new girlfriend by accident. Must team up with Voodoo King, her ecological activist partner to bring her back to life.

THE LOST TRIBE

Truant boys on a desert Outward Bound program. Their instructor is a sadist, and they escape. Picked up by an Anasazi Indian, last of his tribe, they become civilized as he teaches them to be Indians. With Karl Schaefer.

HEAT LIGHTNING

[in turnaround to MGM] Black man returns to southern town after going to prison before Civil Rights for a murder he didn't commit. Racism, long thought buried, rears its head and he must solve a decades old crime before he winds up dead.

BOYS AND GIRLS

Sweet, humorous coming of age. A boy learns about women from his grandfather and a wise girl he meets at art school in New York.

WISTERIA

Gothic, Southern Great Expectations.

SOME SWEET DAY

Film with music. Arkansas sharecropper revolt in the 1920's. True story about first union in U.S. to have black and white members. With Mac Pirkle.

MY SON'S BIRTHDAY

Rollicking adventure. A boy conjures up 17th century pirates to help him find buried treasure so his dad will come home. It all goes awry when X-marks-the-spot is under his house and the pirates turn out to be less than trustworthy