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GODSMACKED

By Kevin Scrantz and Peter Devonald

LOGLINE
Amphetamine addict Iris learns her marriage is over and her kids hate her. And then things start to go bad.

GENRE
Extremely dark comedy

REVIEW
"Hilarious, vicious, bleak and gobsmacking. I could imagine the script easily being picked up and at the very least working as a great sample for potential TV work." Imogen Murphy

SYNOPSIS
Iris wants to be seen as the perfect mother, the perfect wife, the perfect neighbour who always looks out for everyone. But underneath the surface her life is in free-fall, her family hate her and her husband's having an affair. Existence could be miserable for Iris --- if she let it. Instead she bulldozes through life, runs over squirrels on the street, puts her son's dog to sleep and generally fights the world on her own terms. Mostly she wins, surviving on a steady array of drugs, acerbic comments and flirting with the new neighbours. But things are about to fall apart completely.

The catalyst for Iris's disaster comes when her son steals her drugs, bunks off school, throws a bottle out the car that hits an old man on the head. The old man staggers away, only to be hit by Iris' husband's mistress driving her car… The old man dies, the mistress drives off to cover her infidelity. Iris is unaware of the events conspiring against her, she has more immediate concerns: all out war with her estranged kids, who scream and threaten her. Both children are falling apart. The daughter sleeps with the adult next-door-neighbour. The son takes more drugs and goes on a bender. The husband is too busy trying to protect his mistress to notice, let alone care. And Iris declares war on the ants that have invaded her perfect home… But its the war with her children that gets out of hand when they spice her vibrator, spread ants across her bed and make her life a misery. When they snitch on her doctor regarding the drugs he sells, Iris' one route to freedom and happiness is cut off… all hell breaks loose.

Iris does whatever is necessary to find her way back to happiness. She approaches drug dealers, goes through humiliation to get her score. Meanwhile her hooked neighbour fails to get the flowers Iris ordered. Because of the flowers, Iris cuts off the drug link to her neighbour… her neighbour goes on a rampage to create her own drugs, with disastrous consequences. Iris tries to find the right flowers in time for the social event of the season, but she's tripping into oblivion. Everything comes to a head when the neighbours drug exploits go to hell. Iris' drug trip becomes a media fuelled extravaganza - with consequences she never dreamed of… and her family are left to find the perfect nucleus family she always wanted.

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