Meek bookkeeper, Candace, is rocked to her moral core when she inherits a strip club. She is eager to sell it to a club rival, Bill Braun. Then she witnesses him threaten a female dancer. Now, a defiant Candace vows to keep Candyland at all costs. A furious Braun threatens to ruin her business. An act of God anoints Candace as her church's new book keeper where uber church lady, Ruth Ann, rules. When Braun steals away Candace's customers, she is desperate for more dancers. She secretly enlists some of the church ladies to dance as temps, without Ruth Ann's knowledge. All hell breaks loose when the secret is accidentally revealed.
"Candyland" is an adaptation based on my screenplay which won the following awards:
2009 Midwest Writing Initiative Screenplay Contest - 2nd Place, Comedy
2008 Broad Humor Comedy Screenplay Competition for Women Writers - Best Farce
2008 Pacific Northwest Script Writing Contest - 1st Place, Comedy
2008 Austin Film Festival, 2nd Round, Comedy (Top 10% of 4,000 scripts)
In 2009, it was produced at the Washington Stage Community Theater in La Porte, IN.
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