Last Days of X-Stasy

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Screenplay Award 2022

Glitter and sequins. Quaaludes and coke. Sex and disco. Soaring so high in its drug induced, dance crazed, hedonistic frenzy that it had nowhere to go but down.

My first ten pages are attached in PDF format.

THE LAST DAYS OF X-STASY

SYNOPSIS

Late 70’s New York City. X-Stasy is the hottest disco around. People wait in line to get picked to get in. Anybody who is anybody is there. Nobodies become somebodies by being there. The beat is pounding. The bodies are writhing. The drugs are flowing. The lights are dazzling. The sex is plentiful. The ambience is hot.

Carlos is the hottest bartender. Everybody wants him. The owner, Tim, adores him. Tommy, his lover, worships him. Gus, the boxer, will come out of the closet for him. Adriana, the senator’s wife, wants an affair with him. Joy, the overweight 50’s sex symbol, wants him for her comeback. Aldo, the magazine owner/ avant-garde artist, puts him on his cover. Carlos loves only himself.

Aisha wants to be the next Donna Summer. Big voice in a big body. She wants Hubert, President of Marrakesh Records, to produce her. She gets Disco Sasha, the coked-up octogenarian, to help her. She gets Tommy to partner her. She gets in everybody’s way.

Annabella is the million-dollar model. Uses coke to keep her weight down. Meets Senator Nykvist for an election campaign. He has enough trouble keeping his wife Adriana away from the spotlight of her own hedonism. Annabella is torn between fame and settling down.

Kansas City Bomber: a Wall Street broker by day; a roller skating drag queen by night. She meets Sam, a boy considered too unfashionable to enter the club. A boy not too tightly wrapped up. Sam ingratiates himself on Aldo’s ego. They create a theme of photographing dead people glamorously. It goes a bit too far and it hits closer to home than Aldo would ever have expected.

Tim loves his club. Tim loves his boys. Tim loves his money. Tim loves Quaaludes. Pierre, his doorman and right hand, keeps trying to keep him at least conscious. Tim only wants to have fun and be surrounded by pretty things. Tim’s aversion to reality comes crashing down around his head.

From 1977 to 1978, these people’s lives intermingle at this most glamorously decadent nightspot. None of them will ever be the same.