Saturday, October 3, 2009

Movie Idea "Friends For Benefits"

Title: Friends For Benefits
Plot: Minimum wage store clerks can't unionize or get health care, but they can't get fired because no one would want their job so they arrange for a friend not affiliated with the store to rob them occasionally and give them (most of) the money afterward but the robber later wants a bigger cut of the money and the managers get suspicious about the robberies on several counts (the thief never takes more than the company can afford to lose, the lack of violence panic or incoherent erratically behavior, the delay in which the clerks feign for help, the lack of a consistent description of the thief who never is in a clear shot of the surveillance tapes). The internal dispute however causes a final conflict in which a clerk winds up dead and the thief goes to jail from a recent robbing, getting the clerks off the hook with management and the surviving clerks get a split of the money and are able through their heroic publicity able to leave the store and find more financially secure work.
Characters:
Ethan Wolowitz- manager of the local shop
Joel Wolowitz- co-manager of the local shop
Daryl Lebowski- head conspirator of the clerks
Jeff Cohen- slacker friend who agrees to rob the store
Arthur Jones- clerk who dies fighting Jeff off from taking the whole of the loot at the store