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Henry and the Fictionals

by Erik Carlson

📅 October 3, 2025📋 Polish📄 17 pages

"After putting aside his ambitions and taking a normal job for financial stability, a stressed out screenwriter's characters stage an intervention for him on the night a make-or-break assignment is due."

Henry and the Fictionals follows Henry, an aspiring screenwriter who has moved to the West Coast to get into screenwriting. Struggling to find a job, his parents financially support him, much to his embarrassment. Finally, he takes a soul-crushing office job out of desperation, putting his creative ambitions on hold. After a period of struggling to keep afloat at the office and lying to his parents and a neighbor down the hall that he has a crush on, things come to a head when Henry races to meet a project deadline, with his boss threatening to fire him if its late, only for his fictional creatures to stage an intervention to get his attention. Over the course of this crazy evening, Henry eventually learns to be true to himself, take responsibility, and leap back into the uncomfortable unknown.

Format & Technical

Short

Comparables

Stranger Than Fiction meets The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013)

Meet the creator

Erik Carlson profile

Erik Carlson

Writer and Director

📍 Windsor Heights, Iowaâœ‰ī¸ [email protected]🌐 www.youtube.com/@VegimorphtheMovieBoyđŸŽŦ Film

Born and raised in Des Moines, Iowa, I graduated from the University of Iowa in 2012 with a B.A. in English and Cinema and from the Los Angeles branch of the New York Film Academy in 2016 with an M.F.A. in Filmmaking. My thesis project, "A Night at the Movies," won seven awards on the festival circuit, including Best Short Screenplay at the San Diego International Kids Film Festival. My love for film developed as a kid when my grandma introduced me to the comedy of Laurel and Hardy, The Little Rascals, and Abbott and Costello, and I would later watch films like Indiana Jones, Star Wars, and Back to the Future. As a screenwriter, my favorite genres are Adventure (particularly pulp and swashbucklers), science-fiction, and fantasy, and I hope eventually to try mystery, Western, and horror.

Looking For

Mentorship opportunities, collaborations on features

Skills

ScreenwritingStory DevelopmentCharacter DevelopmentWorld-buildingOutlining

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Script Breakdown

Analysis of Henry and the Fictionals

Statistics

13Scenes
10Est. Pages
276Lines
2487Words

Characters (8)

Showing top characters
HENRY
72 lines
RACHEL
25 linesfemale
ARIADNE
21 lines
DR. BOBCAT
19 lines
LOUIS
11 lines
CO-WORKER
4 lines

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