INDESTRUCTO MAN

INDESTRUCTO MAN is a fantasy/comedy about a shy store clerk who becomes virtually indestructible one day after a freak accident involving a microwave oven, a cup of coffee, and a Superman comic book.

Tom Carroll is a mild-mannered store manager at Miller’s General Store. His lifelong dream is to buy the place from old man Miller one day and finally be his own boss. But Carolyn Smithfield, his overbearing girlfriend, has other plans. Ambitiously mapping out Tom’s future within her father’s chain of mega-stores—not to mention their wedding—Carolyn steamrolls him at every turn. Tom can’t seem to stand up to her or break things off, a weakness that may inadvertently cost him his life when he meets and falls in love with Sally Ramsey, a local nurse.

During an armed holdup at Miller’s, Tom discovers his strange new “power” of indestructibility—an invisible force field that repels any and all harmful objects, including bullets. Tom soon begins to think of himself as a new kind of superhero and starts acting accordingly. The townsfolk, however, find him more curious than inspiring and take to throwing objects at him for sport—tomatoes, eggs, rocks, whatever they can get their hands on. Before long, Tom is viewed as a freak, and instead of becoming popular, he finds himself outcast and alienated.

Tom’s lack of assertiveness eventually comes back to haunt him when Sally discovers the truth about Carolyn, whom Tom has been avoiding. (Though virtually indestructible, he’s still terrified of confronting her.) Sally—abandoned by her father at a young age and raised by her mother—already carries a deep distrust of men, and her breakup with Tom is swift and devastating.

The loss sends Tom into a major depression, and suicidal thoughts begin to take hold. But being indestructible, Tom’s futile attempts to end his misery don’t go quite as planned, only driving him further into a black hole of despair.

Tom’s breakup with Sally begins to affect him in another way as well. The loss of true love becomes Indestructo Man’s Achilles’ heel, and gradually—little by little—he begins to weaken, until his very life force starts to degenerate. Doctors are baffled as Tom falls into a deep coma and heads toward certain death.

Meanwhile, Sally has changed jobs and moved out of town, unaware of Tom’s condition. Tom’s good friend and coworker, Martin Washington, attempts to patch things up and inform her of Tom’s illness. But Sally’s overprotective uncle, after hearing the news, decides to keep it from her. His decision may cost Tom his life as time runs out and Indestructo Man slowly fades away.

Only true love can save him—but will it arrive in time?

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