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The Weather Just Got Sexy


When Adam’s poetry is ripped to shreds by his mentor, he is crushed. To assuage his depression, he throws himself into retail therapy. Boxes of Gucci pile up in the family’s living room and Adam’s incensed parents order him to get a summer job.

McMansion Adam knows nothing about work. But best pal Keanu, ever the schemer, has already devised a plan: The De Sads are looking for summer help at their seaside boutique hotel. How hard could it be to work for a grungy, alt rock band?

Adam and Keanu arrive in a run-down, British coastal town where they are greeted by the hotel’s manager. She whisks the boys away to the hotel where they are greeted by The De Sad’s magnetic frontman, Jimi Constantine.

Jimi delights in teasing the boys and heaps tasks upon them.
He also makes them personally responsible for every whim of a capricious young rockstar, Noel, who has been reclusively holed up in the penthouse for the past year.

Life at the hotel takes a sharp twist when a pom-pom wielding, rock ‘n roll drummer asks Jimi to lend him the boys for his brand new men’s synchronized swimming team.

Neither the drummer, nor our heroes, nor the other two rock ‘n roll, non-swimmer team members, know anything about synchronized swimming. The boys imagine that the whole thing is a joke until Reece informs them that they will be doing a nostalgia showcase the following week.

Tensions and antagonisms build between the boys on the “team,” and Adam ends up taking refuge in the penthouse where he shares some of his own lyrics with its eccentric occupant, Noel. As it turns out, Noel’s got something Adam needs: he’s a former synchronized swimming champion.

Noel agrees to coach the team. The day of the showcase arrives and the boys are raring to go. The de Sads are playing a kick-ass gig. It’s the boys turn to swim and they crush it. Overjoyed, Adam grabs Noel and they run together onto the beach and towards the music.

  • Zoë Greenbaum
    Writer
    Hanging Gardens of the Sea & Sky, The Weather Just Got Sexy, My World at Night
  • Zoë Greenbaum
    Director
    We Are Bleach, Inevitability
  • Project Type:
    Screenplay
  • Genres:
    Comedy, Coming of Age
  • Number of Pages:
    87
  • Language:
    English
  • First-time Screenwriter:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Blue Cat Screenplay Competition

    May 16, 2023
    Semi-Finalist
  • New Renaissance International Film Festival
    Amsterdam
    March 6, 2023
    Best International Feature Screenplay
  • Flickers Rhode Island International Film Festival
    Providence, RI
    October 9, 2023
    Finalist
Writer Biography - Zoë Greenbaum

Filmmaker Zoë Greenbaum is a writer/director, visual artist and singer/songwriter. After receiving a BFA in gag manga from Kyoto Seika University, the distinguished center for manga and anime in Japan, Zoë, a tremendous fan of British film, decided she would follow in the footsteps of Stanley Kubrick and she set off to make movies in the UK. In 2022, after a Covid-infused year at London Film School, she made her second not-so-short film, We Are Bleach, starring Zachary Goldman and Sonnei Garces . At the suggestion of French director, Arthur Joffé, Zoë took on the third lead in Bleach, and the film went on to quickly win awards in both Europe and the US: Best Indie Short, Emerging Talent , Best LGBTQ+, as well an Audience Choice Award in New York. Bleach was also an official selection at several festivals including the Montauk Film Festival, Orlando Film Festival, the Berlin TV Series Festival and the Queenshead Mini-Fringe Film Festival, among others.

A quirky and beguiling writer, Zoë’s unproduced, feature-length screenplay, Hanging Gardens of the Sea and Sky (2021) - a musical romantic comedy with magical realist touches - was a top 10 finalist in the TWENTIETH ANNUAL AMERICAN ZOETROPE SCREENPLAY COMPETITION (Francis Ford Coppola, guest judge). Hanging Gardens was also Top 10 at the Nantucket Film Festival’s Tony Cox Awards. It was a finalist at Cordillera, as well as at Flickers and the Maverick Movie Awards. Other nominations include The Beverly Hills Film Festival, The International Film Festival of Wales, the UK Film Festival, Evolution! Mallorca, Beyond the Curve, Sedona, and at Art of Brooklyn where her 2021 short, Inevitability won the award for Outstanding Editing. Zoe’s feature screenplay, My World At Night, was among the Top 100 Dramas in 2020’s International Screenwriters’ Association Table Read My Screenplay Contest. And the script for We Are Bleach (2022) was a finalist at Beyond the Curve and a semifinalist in Hollywood Just 4 Shorts.

Zoë is currently in development for The Weather Just Got Sexy, a madcap, 90 minute coming-of-age, rock ’n roll comedy about a young poetry major who bumbles ass-backwards into a journey of self-discovery. The screenplay won Best International Feature Screenplay in Amsterdam, was a semi-finalist at Blue Cat, where it was called “a lighter Mamet,” and it is currently a finalist in Flickers.

When she is not making films, Zoë has a myriad of delightful occupations. She and the multi-awarded songwriter Ian Dench of EMF collaborated on 15 songs for a forthcoming album in 2024, Lost In London and a graphic novel, Low Fidelity, on the foibles of dating in London is currently in the works. Zoë was the opening guest lecturer for the incoming class at London Screen Academy this past September.

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