Inane Query Letter of the Week #20

As promised earlier this week, the heady aroma of change floating around the dusty hallways of the NMTE home offices has avoided detection by certain long-standing traditionalists within. Thus, the Inane Query Letter of the Week department has been mercifully spared and will continue to bring the very worst that the amateur screenwriting world has to offer straight to you, the loyal reader, in our longest running weekly segment…ever!

This week’s winner is a short but sweet ditty from an aspiring hack artist who shows us that an innovative comic concept, like revenge, is a dish best served cold

Query - "Life Begins At Ten" (or "Ten Years Young")

"A young boy wakes one morning to find himself in an adult's place and forced to take on all the responsibilities that come with being grownup."

Genre: Comedy

Sean Young wakes one ordinary morning to discover that children and adults have swapped roles. Everything from parenting to police work becomes child's play. The boy who aspires to get old before his time is given a first-hand look at his future and learns a valuable life lesson.

I wish to submit this screenplay for your consideration. I can be contacted via the information listed below.

Thank You.

NAME WITHHELD TO PROTECT THE STUPID

I can already picture the pitch meeting in my demented mind, replete with alternate title flash cards and “It’s like Big…except ALL the kids are Big!” closing sell line.

Personally, when I first started reading this query I was positive that the kids-magically-becoming-adults-and-learning-how-hard-it-is-to-be-a-grown-up genre had been done to death. Until I read on and realized that by the end of the story our protagonist, the unfortunately named Sean Young “learns a valuable life lesson”.

Valuable life lessons? And the promise of a wacky subplots involving overnight breast growth, preteen cops & robbers fantasies and “You can’t ground me, I’m your father!” gags? Sign me up! As one who’s own personal value ebbs and flows with the price of a pack of smokes, any urbane broad comedy that can somehow lend substance to my otherwise empty existence is always welcome.