It Started on a Garden Tour
COMEDY DRAMA ROMANCE FUNNY FAMILY ADVENTURE
Contemporary,1980s & '90s
Georgia Brock
Logline
It Started on a Garden Tour explores themes of growing through identity crisis brought on by work retirement, loss of a spouse, or relationship changes.
Genre
Comedy,Drama,Romance,Funny,Family,Adventure
Short Summary
Retired Civil Engineer Syd, 62, widower faces emptiness and too many life style choices. Arielle, professional violinist, 55, broken from common law relationship that hindered her need for a sense of independence. Widow socialite Grace wants Syd. Jack Track, is matchmaker for Syd and Arielle
Syd and Arielle are attracted to each other, but both realize the artificiality of a trip as a place to develop a relationship. In spite of this restraint, Grace trying to come between them and Jack maneuvering everybody, Syd and Arielle are committed to let their relationship continue in Toronto
Setting
Toronto, London and East Anglia, England; Paris and Giverny,France; Lucerne Switzerland; Tuscany, Florence, Venice Italy; Toronto
Based on a True Story
No
Plot - Premise
Internal Journey/Rebirth
Plot - Other Elements
Happy Ending,Philosophical Questions
Mature Audience Themes
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Main Character Details
Name: Syd
Age: 62
Gender: Male
Role: Protagonist
Key Traits: Confident,Decisive,Faithful,Masculine,Religious,Skillful,Educated,Honorable
Additional Character Details
Name: Arielle
Age: 55
Gender: Female
Role: Skeptic
Key Traits: Adventurous,Charming,Confident,Skillful,Romantic,Faithful,Engaging,Decisive,Gracious,Educated,Sophisticated,Honorable
Additional Character Details
Name: Jack Track
Age: 70
Gender: Male
Role: sidekick
Key Traits: Adventurous,Engaging,Masculine,Uneducated,Confident,Decisive,Funny,Skillful,Honorable
Additional Character Details
Name: Grace
Age: 60
Gender: Female
Role: antagonist
Key Traits: Aspiring,Aggressive,Confident,Desperate,Blunt,Leader,Educated
Development Pitch
Syd, retired civil engineer, is faced with choices. He finds his new work in gardening and painting, but is at odds with his marital status: safely remaining single with its grand independence and awful loneliness; safely replacing his wife with a widowed friend thus keeping the same pattern of lifestyle; or, taking some risks to find an intimate new kind of relationship. Syd knows he has to grow through change to make a new life for himself. Arielle, left a relationship with a high-powered businessman. She is a violinist in the city symphony, and has private pupils for music and ballet.Always meeting the wrong man, she never found trust within an intimate relationship that would allow her to be herself and experience a balance of dependence and independence for herself and her partner. Arielle knows she has to grow into single life as the only way to thrive as a human being. They hesitantly allow their attraction to each other to develop on the trip, and let it continue when back home, in real life. The tone of the story is mature, dignified, sensitive, and above all, humorous.