The Cosmic Order Bride
The Cosmic Order Bride
GENRE: Romantic Comedy
RIGHTS AVAILABLE: Screenplay & Novel
ENDORSEMENT: After consulting on the screenplay's development, Pilar Alessandra, author of The Coffee Break Screenwriter and Director of On the Page stated: "Every screenwriter in Hollywood would give their eyeteeth for this uniquely original, high-concept, rom-com story!"
LOGLINE: Desperate to save his family home, a Montana rancher secretly writes successful romance novels, but when his own longing for love results in a cosmic prescription to order a bride—nobody expects an atractive, New York Times Book Reviewer to show up, expose his true identity, discredit his reputation, while falling in love under a canopy of stars in Big Sky Country.
SYNOPSIS: How does a man go about finding his perfect partner? He orders her, of course. Once he orders that perfect partner, how does he convince her that she is the one and only? John Dougherty wakes up one morning on his Montana ranch and decides he is ready . . . to take that journey.
He is a fourth generation Montanan who "escaped" twenty years earlier by attending Evergreen College in Olympia, WA. He is not going to be a rancher, but a writer. That dream ends when both his parents die in a head-on collision during a freak blizzard on the Chief Joseph Highway.
John writes his way out of his deep despair and loss. In his quiet solitude, love becomes a thirst. He quenches that thirst by writing the very thing he searches for—romance. To his surprise, his books are top sellers, and the ranch endures despite decades of draught. His fifth novel stirs that deeper longing in him for something . . . no, someone.
If John can just keep up his secret identity for a few more years, as long as Aunt Novalyne Dougherty, his father's sister, agrees, and who is just eccentric and literary enough to fill a size seven high-heeled romance author's shoes, he can keep the family ranch—all 7,500 acres. In this large, but humble home by the Madison River, John's self-searching from a deep spiritual thirst is just about to pay off—in a bride—in a cosmic order bride!
The last thing Tia Saint Jacques wants to read is a love story. As a successful book review editor for the New York Review of Books, Tia feels like she's hit an all-time low when her Editor-in-Chief, Phillip Rotner, assigns her to write an in-depth review of the successful writng career of the romance author, Novalyne Dougherty. The in-depth review must coincide with the author's forthcoming book, already positioned to hit high on the New York Times Best Sellers list.
Who has time for love or even wants to risk it today? Tia loves a challenge, even if she hates the genre, so she flies to Montana at the invitation of the publisher, Selene Pearls, who is launching the author's book, The Cosmic Order Bride. Ms. Dougherty's entourage includes her Publisher, her PA, and the author's nephew, John Dougherty. At first glance of him, Tia hears a booming voice in her head announce, "You need to know this man!"
So begins John Dougherty's story of how he orders and is delivered a cosmic-order-bride. It's a romantic comedy filled with tumbleweed mishaps. ETs are suspect in spooking local livestock. Local cowgirls unleash a tell-all when they suspect the one eligible bachelor within a 350-mile radius has printed their pillow talk. A New York City writer, who desperately wants recognition as a serious investigative journalist again, takes her investigation too far, discrediting the one thing that will save a rancher his home and his reputation in Big Sky Country.