Creative Story Treatment for Movie

Story Treatment

Working Title: Honeymoon in Hell

Logline: Honeymoon in Hell is a rom-com with a heart about two young professionals who have the picture perfect relationship on paper—yet beneath the surface there is a lot they have to learn about themselves and each other. Still, it’s nothing a little honeymooning in Hell can’t help them to figure out!

Synopsis: Kate and Mike are two ambitious career-driven young professionals who want to impress their friends by taking the ultimate exotic honeymoon. The only problem is their honeymoon is on an island paradise that also happens to double as a hub for a massive drug-running operation.

Treatment: Kate is an ambitious career-gal in her late 20s; her new husband is Mike, same age and pretty much a perfect catch: handsome, suave, conservative, and rising in the industry. The biggest thing they have in common is their desire to best their peers in everything: in other words, they have the competitive drive of Michael Jordan. And their latest ambition is to take a honeymoon that will put everyone else’s honeymoon to shame.

They hear about a small island in the Asian Pacific that is supposedly the most beautiful and exotic place on earth: waterfalls, aquatic life, paradise—you name it, it’s there. What’s more, it’s next to impossible for anyone to get there—so even if one did want to honeymoon there, good luck making that happen!

But that’s just the kind of challenge these two love. Through a series of questionable contacts, they pose as members of an international drug cartel and thus get access to this “exclusive” island paradise.

Big mistake.

The first sign that they are in for a hellish honeymoon is when they arrive and are immediately asked whether a small group of bandits trying to make off with some of the “goods” should be fed to the sharks or buried alive headfirst on the beach. The second sign they are in over their heads is when they’re asked to take a conference Zoom call with another member of the cartel, who is trying to figure out logistics. Their problems only get worse when it is leaked that there is an FBI mole on the island and that the Feds will be raiding the island soon—and that Kate and Mike are looking at potential life sentences if caught!

Kate and Mike dodge the issue of how to kill the bandits, and after some initial bickering they manage to fake their way through the Zoom call by pretending their computer camera won’t work (so they can better hide their identities), but with the anticipated arrival of the Feds they are legitimately freaked out. Now they have to trust one another more than ever before and truly place their fate in each other’s hands: united they stand, but divided they will fall.