Project Involve

The script opens with a POV shot of a car driving during a thunderstorm. The driver briefly takes his eyes off the road. The screen cuts to black as we hear a horrific car crash.
We fade in on a disheveled apartment in Brooklyn as WILSON, an unsuccessful novelist strung out on drugs, attempts to write his suicide note. Just as he finally gets the wording he’s looking for, Wilson receives a phone call from his estranged mother, CAROLYN, revealing that his older brother JEFF died in a car accident. Realizing he can no longer go through with his suicide, Wilson reluctantly prepares to go home. Wilson’s publisher, SCOTT shows up at his apartment to remind Wilson about the deadline for his new novel, but Wilson avoids him by climbing down the fire escape, hopping in his car and leaving the city. That night, Wilson arrives at his childhood home in Prussia, North Carolina and there is clearly tension between him and his parents, Carolyn and SAM.
At breakfast the next morning, REVEREND HOWELL suggests that Wilson read the eulogy at Jeff’s funeral. Despite his parents’ reluctance, Wilson agrees and arranges to meet with Reverend Howell the next day to discuss the eulogy. Wilson runs into an old friend from High School named MATT who informs Wilson that his high school sweetheart LIZZY has moved back to town and opened a law practice. Wilson goes to Lizzy’s office, and, as he works up the courage to talk to her, overhears Lizzy tell her assistant NATALIE that she had lost her date-book. Lizzy notices Wilson looming outside of her office and the two have an awkward, yet oddly comforting reunion. Wilson returns home to find Jeff’s wife, LUCY and their daughter, EMMA, in his parents’ living room. Emma whines about not having her favorite blan...

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Having hit rock bottom, Wilson wakes in a holding cell. Back at home, Scott overhears Sam’s reaction to Wilson’s arrest and calls Lizzy to bail Wilson out of jail. Scott tells Wilson that he’s taking the work he found in Wilson’s room as proof to show his bosses that Wilson’s working on a new novel. Lizzy drives Wilson to the funeral and reveals Jeff was with her the night he died and she blames herself. As he gets out the car, he tells her not to blame herself. At the funeral, Wilson delivers an inspiring, heartfelt eulogy that allows his family to come to terms with what they have lost and recognize they must cherish what they still have.
Back in New York, Wilson types at his desk in a much cleaner apartment. He receives a call from Scott praising the pages of his new novel. A close up on the computer screen shows the last two words Wilson wrote, “THE END.”