Game Set and Match
Logline
Four women - each has a secret but none so dark as the secrets their husbands harbour. Both friendships and relationships are tested to the maximum as these secrets come to light. Some survive but some do not.
Genre
Drama,Other
Short Summary
Four women meet regularly to play tennis. One is in a loveless marriage and has serial affairs, one is an alcoholic but won't admit it, one is searching to become the perfect woman through cosmetic surgery and one appears to be in a happy marriage and longs for a baby.
The loveless marriage continues, the alcoholism is replaced by addiction to tranquillisers, after traumatic surgery, the woman seeking perfection admits she was born a man and a baby is born, but who is the father?
Setting
A small town in the UK but could be anywhere
Based on a True Story
No
Plot - Premise
Internal Journey/Rebirth,Other
Plot - Other Elements
Twist,Other,Happy Ending
Mature Audience Themes
Substance Abuse,Sexual Abuse
Main Character Details
Name: Peta
Age: 50 (though she won't admit it)
Gender: Female
Role: Protagonist
Key Traits: Complex,Confident,Insecure,Leader,Unapologetic,Secretive
Additional Character Details
Name: Miriam
Age: 50-ish
Gender: Female
Role: Sidekick
Key Traits: Underdog,Clumsy,Desperate,Secretive,Naive
Additional Character Details
Name: Duncan (Peta's husband)
Age: 55
Gender: Male
Role: tempter
Key Traits: Masculine,Charming,Confident,Power Hungry,Narcisstic,Educated,Manipulative
Additional Character Details
Name: Judith
Age: 49
Gender: Other
Role: emotional
Key Traits: Masculine,Decisive,Faithful,Sophisticated
Development Pitch
Appearances can be so deceptive. Four women going to play tennis. Four women who seem to be so lucky in life and have everything. It all seems so innocent. But against the backdrop of daily life at a tennis club where petty squabbles and rivalry inevitably exist, beneath the surface these women are struggling. As truths emerge about husbands and themselves, life will never be the same again for any of them.With issues including infidelity, infertility, deceit, desperation, rape and substance abuse, there is something here that everyone can relate to in some way or another and at the end of the day, it is friendship and loyalty that win...at least for some of them.