Saturday, June 06, 2009

Synopsis Sans Substantial Spoilage

For me it's always hard to summarize something that I thought needed pages to present properly:
Ready Or Not” is a romantic comedy about the challenge of staying true to yourself when your world goes into a spin.

Ed, a young construction executive, returns home after spending a year in prison in Mexico. He looks forward to a warm welcome from his wife and his company. He is shocked to find that neither his wife, nor his boss, are eager to have him back. But Ed is not ready to surrender, and he decides to spill the secret he has been keeping for a year.

Revelation follows revelation, in scenes both humorous and heartfelt, careening toward a final confrontation.
What do you think? Is that a good sounding summary?

It's a lot more detailed than:
After a year in a Mexican jail, he was hoping for a warm welcome, but he's in for a wild ride.
So is the new one too detailed, or maybe not enough? Does it sound too much like the way they write movie summaries - too much of a marketing sound, as opposed to a literary sound?

Trying to express
this with less
causes stress.

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