Family Screenplays for Sale
Browse 3 professional family screenplays in the ScriptLix catalog. Each script is evaluated for cast size, location count, VFX needs, and overall producibility before publication. Read free sample pages, compare ratings, and own the full script from $19. Production rights are licensed separately.
Family screenplays in the catalog
- DEEP SKY
After his parents separate, fourteen-year-old Marco Reyes spends the summer at his grandparents' rural New Mexico property with a physics test he knows is wrong and the idea of building a radio telesc
102 pages - DETOUR HOME
When Eli's grandmother drives away from a Connecticut rest stop without the rest of the family, twelve-year-old Eli goes with her. She navigates by memory. He navigates by phone. The phone dies on day
110 pages - PAPER ROADS
A twelve-year-old girl discovers her late father's hand-drawn fantasy maps of real American places and sets out to find every one, bringing along her grandmother who begins to recognize each location
96 pages
DEEP SKY
Marco Reyes, fourteen, arrives at his grandparents' Torrance County property in June carrying a failed physics test whose red X marks a correct answer. With his grandfather Ernesto, a retired Sandia antenna engineer navigating early Parkinson's, he salvages and constructs a working hydrogen-line radio telescope over the summer. When the dish detects a faint, repeating signal at the predicted sky position, Marco and Ernesto pursue its identification through academic correspondence and GPS-disciplined timing analysis. A July monsoon destroys the primary mount. Marco rebuilds alone. By August, the source is identified as a binary millisecond pulsar matching Marco's original prediction. In the closing scene, the two of them sit in folding chairs facing the dish in the dark, and Marco describes what is there to a grandfather who can no longer see it clearly enough to read the sky himself.
102 pages
DETOUR HOME
Eli Marsh, twelve, is separated from his family at a highway rest stop when his grandmother Ruth drives away before anyone notices. Over three days across Connecticut, Vermont, and New Hampshire, Eli discovers the life Ruth lived before she was anyone's grandmother: the house on Maple Street now a dental office, the former student she has not seen in thirty years, the hill where his grandfather photographed the same view for forty years. When Eli's phone dies on the second night and Ruth briefly loses herself to memory, he sits on a motel room floor and understands for the first time what his mother carries every day. On the third morning, he navigates from memory, using the logic of Ruth's routes. They arrive at the family reunion two days late, from the wrong direction, on schedule by Ruth's reckoning.
110 pages
PAPER ROADS
Three months after her father's death, Nora Callahan (12) finds a sealed box containing seven hand-drawn maps of real American landscapes rendered as a fantasy kingdom, each with a note addressed to the daughter he hadn't met yet. She convinces her grandmother Eileen (71), who has early-stage memory loss, to drive with her to find every location. As they travel from Illinois to Iowa to Missouri to Minnesota, Eileen begins to recognize each place because she took Daniel there as a boy. At a gas station parking lot in Minnesota, Nora says out loud what she has not said in four months: that she is furious at her father for leaving. At the final location, a lake in northern Minnesota, Eileen tells Nora everything she remembers about the summer Daniel spent there at nine, and Nora writes it in the map margins as she speaks. They drive home. Nora draws the eighth map herself.
96 pages