KARMIC BUYBACK: A PILOT PROGRAM

Date Issued:: 2007
Abstract/Description:: "Karmic Buyback: A Pilot Program", a screenplay, is the story of Oliver Harker, a water resources engineer in his early thirties, adrift in a world of lost social connections. Aside from this work, which he describes as "just a lot of redundant paperwork," his only connection to the outside world is his exuberant younger brother Van. With no father to speak of, and harboring long term resentment against his mother who ran away to Africa the day after Van's high school graduation, Oliver's defining tragic moment came three years earlier. It was then he discovered Eva, the woman he planned to marry, cheating with an old flame. Isolating himself from his few remaining friends, Oliver has become a short-tempered, unbearable grump. Meanwhile Eva, unbeknownst to Oliver, has recently died. She wakes to find herself in a strange, antiseptic afterlife where she is given the opportunity to repair some of the bad karma she accumulated in her short life, specifically in regard to Oliver. As Van begins to help him reestablish social ties, an accident which lands Oliver in the hospital finally draws their mother back across the Atlantic. Oliver must decide between Eva, in her foolish attempts to win him back as a result of the ultimately misguided Karmic Buyback Pilot Program, and the real people who love him.

Title:	KARMIC BUYBACK: A PILOT PROGRAM.	51 views 18 downloads
Name(s):	Dauer, Cindy, Author Rushin, Pat, Committee Chair University of Central Florida, Degree Grantor
Type of Resource:	text
Date Issued:	2007
Publisher:	University of Central Florida
Language(s):	English
Abstract/Description:	"Karmic Buyback: A Pilot Program", a screenplay, is the story of Oliver Harker, a water resources engineer in his early thirties, adrift in a world of lost social connections. Aside from this work, which he describes as "just a lot of redundant paperwork," his only connection to the outside world is his exuberant younger brother Van. With no father to speak of, and harboring long term resentment against his mother who ran away to Africa the day after Van's high school graduation, Oliver's defining tragic moment came three years earlier. It was then he discovered Eva, the woman he planned to marry, cheating with an old flame. Isolating himself from his few remaining friends, Oliver has become a short-tempered, unbearable grump. Meanwhile Eva, unbeknownst to Oliver, has recently died. She wakes to find herself in a strange, antiseptic afterlife where she is given the opportunity to repair some of the bad karma she accumulated in her short life, specifically in regard to Oliver. As Van begins to help him reestablish social ties, an accident which lands Oliver in the hospital finally draws their mother back across the Atlantic. Oliver must decide between Eva, in her foolish attempts to win him back as a result of the ultimately misguided Karmic Buyback Pilot Program, and the real people who love him.
Identifier:	CFE0001954 (IID), ucf:47439 (fedora)
Note(s):	2007-12-01 M.A. Arts and Humanities, Department of English Masters This record was generated from author submitted information.
Subject(s):	screenwriting script scriptwriting screenplay
Persistent Link to This Record:	http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0001954
Restrictions on Access:	campus 2008-12-04
Host Institution:	UCF

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