Legal Fiction

LOGLINE: Two girls at an elite private school compete to be captain of their Mock Trial team, not knowing that their fathers’ lives (one a mayor, and the other a notorious crime boss) depend on who wins.

Genre(s): Crime, Comedy

Concept: A high school Mock Trial team accidentally exposes pickleball as a criminal enterprise run by the mob boss father of one of its girls. It’s Mean Girls meets Law & Order.

Synopsis: When the Mock Trial club at St. Genesius School for Girls (SGS) decides to practice their trial advocacy skills on each other, they uncover the hidden identities of the cool new transfer student, their teacher, and their lawyer coach, putting all their lives in danger.

In the process, we learn why pickleball is really America’s fastest growing sport, why a history teacher is in the federal Witness Protection Plan program, and what a mob boss’s biggest dream is for his daughter.

Uncovering all that is, Alex Elwell (the Mayor’s daughter), a lifer at SGS, entering her senior year, who learns that no amount of winning can ever make her feel truly fulfilled. Her rival, Jesse Fritz (whose dad turns out to be the notorious crime boss Eddie Cozzi), a 12th grade transfer student, who threatens to supplant Alex at SGS, discovers that abandonment is a two-way street. Together, they realize that their lives are broken in the same way - that they are living to make other people happy, rather than themselves. But with the help of their Faculty Advisor, Avery Mann (whose testimony put Jesse’s dad in jail, and is now being protected by Alex’s dad), and their Mock Trial coach, Casey Law (who works for Alex’s dad as an Assistant District Attorney, but is also an “adopted daughter” to Jesse’s dad), they both learn to live their truths - and write kick ass college essays about it to boot!