Introduction
In this feature comedy script taking reality TV to its logical extreme, eccentric, out-of-work professor Norm Barnes gets the lonely Yuppies in the high-rise apartment next door to buy ‘viewing rights’ to the daily drama of his family life, thereby realizing his secret dream of fame. But he’s forced by the family’s increasingly manic fans to make a final choice: fame or family?
Synopsis
Norm Barnes is not your average unemployed Philosophy professor. Father of two precocious girls (8 and 12) with a third child on the way, Norm spends his free time roaming the streets in homeless disguise doing “garbology.” When he destroys all the curtains in their old Victorian house by washing them, his wife Grace insists he get a job, any job. Standing next door on balconies looking down into his house that night, the Yuppies at Winslow Arms inspire Norm to open Family Viewing Inc., a 24 hour live entertainment service… with his family as real-life stars! Reality TV like you’ve never seen it…
Soon he’s rolling in dough and thoroughly reinvigorated as head of his unwitting family; he’s showered with tips to “buy something nice for the kids.” Grace grows paranoid: she can’t fathom where Norm’s getting his money, and she keeps getting strange stares at the grocery and inexplicable notes in the mailbox. When his oldest girl finds out and starts blackmailing him and a neighbor’s erotic fascination with Norm gets out of hand, Norm tries to shut it all down… and can’t – the Winslow Arms residents want their show! And they’ll stop at nothing to get it.
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