“WALK A MILE IN MY SHOES
SYNOPSIS
Written By: Annette Stewart-Colon
Walk A Mile In My Shoes - is a Comedy about a female lawyer who is well guarded, lovable who solely focuses on her career with a non-existent social life. Graduating at the top of her class from Harvard Law School, she was bypassed for the Senior Partner’s position at the Freeman and Freeman Law Firm, for an unqualified candidate, she resigns. Through the encouragement from her close knit family, she along with two business partners opens up the M.A.D. Law Firm. Due to the bribery case scandal, Robert Freeman along with his two partners are disbarred from practicing law. Robert is having a very difficult time dealing with his disbarment and goes to a local bar and grill to forget about his troubles.
Linda reluctantly hires Robert and his two partners to work for her law firm. When Robert’s boss Raymond finds out the reason why he was disbarred, he uses the information to his advantage. Raymond allocates his workload to his subordinates only to reap the rewards later. In a heated discussion, he tells Robert that he should be grateful to have a job and that he can destroy his career. Linda is frantically searching for her car keys while holding two file folders filled with papers in her arms, the folders slips out of her arms and onto the ground. When she kneels down to pick up the papers, a strikingly, handsome Italian man in his mid-thirties kneels down to assist her. On their first date, they go to the Funplex Entertainment Facility. The bells and sirens from the arcade games ringing sporadically along with the rowdy patrons cheering loudly, causes her to panic.
She rushes over to the door trying to escape until she notices her parents and colleagues having fun. Months later, Robert is having a difficult time dealing with his boss’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde behavior. During the work day, in order to catch Raymond, Robert disguises himself as an old woman following them around taking pictures of them gallivanting around town and anonymously places the pictures on Linda’s desk. Linda tells her colleagues that she is no longer engaged to be married because her fiancée is cheating on her. Her colleague tells her that it’s a rumor and that she’s old and desperate. They strongly suggest for her to beg her fiancée to take her back before she is replaced with a woman in her twenties. Linda’s fiancée proposes to her. In excitement, she replies says “Yes, yes, I’ll marry you”. Walk A Mile In My Shoes” is a hilarious screenplay about family, friendships, loyalty and trust. LINDA’s character is an inspiration within itself.
