Muffet thrives on crafting family-friendly screenplays. Most recently, she was approached to adapt two award-winning novels into a screenplay, which is completed and now moving forward!
Fishing for Luck, by Muffet Frische & Murray Richter and Doug McKeon.
Fishing for Luck is the adaptation of two of Murray Richter’s award-winning novels: Lucky Rocks and Fishing for Luck. It has been an amazing project, and the Fishing for Luck team is looking forward to taking the script to the big screen! Stay tuned for more info to come!
A Sugarplum Christmas, by Muffet Frische. Christmas Rom-Com
Rainbow Kringle’s dreams are coming true: she’s a respected physician in a prestigious Boston hospital, has a successful boyfriend, and is finally changing her embarrassing name to “Dr. Evelyn Smith.” She’s come a long way from working in the family business, baking magical sugarplums that make Santa’s reindeer fly. When Rainbow learns the family magic is fading and must be passed quickly to the next in line – her, Rainbow doesn’t want any part of it, but if she doesn’t, Christmas as we know it could end. Rainbow heads home to find a solution, but instead finds her high school ex, Thomas Coffee. He has made a life for himself after losing Rainbow, but as past feelings reemerge and misunderstandings abound, can the career-driven pair find their way to a happily ever after together?
The Christmas Games, by Muffet Frische. Christmas Rom-Com
Accountant Callie James is happiest hiding in her cubicle, surrounded by the numbers she loves. They’ve always been there for her – predictable and stable; unlike her impulsive parents. When Callie’s boss sends her to investigate a bank branch behind on collecting loan payments, she insists she’s a number- cruncher, not a people-person; still, he requires she resolve the issue in person. Arriving at her hotel, Callie mistakenly fills out an entry for the town’s Christmas Games and is chosen, along with Matt (the bank branch manager) to compete in the annual contest. Given her accident-prone history, Callie panics and tries to back out, but when Matt closes the bank for Christmas, she has no choice: if the contest is the only place they can discuss the loans, then the contest it is. Humorous mishaps arise as their feelings for each other grow. Realizing she’s been hiding behind the numbers for far too long, Callie has a decision to make: will she trust the numbers, foreclose on the properties, and move up in the bank, or will she save the town?
The Christmas Proposal , by Muffet Frische. Rom-Com adapted from the book, “Mistletoe & Macaroons” by Cadia Cox (pen name of Muffet Frische)
When hairdresser Sophie Dawson loses her job and her boyfriend the same day she learns she’s a finalist in Romano Radiance’s “New Face” contest, she leaps at the opportunity to travel to Hardly, Alaska for Christmas with Lorenzo Romano, Italy’s famous “Hunk of Hairdo’s” himself. It’s the perfect escape from her troubles, but when she arrives in the great white north, another one arises: Lorenzo’s proclamation of undying love. If Sophie is going to survive this trip and the competition, she needs a fake fiancé…and fast. Cole Masterson is ready to escape Alaska’s icy winter and his mother’s pleas for grandchildren, so when he encounters Sophie at a local bar, she provides the perfect ruse. But she’s vegetarian; he’s cattle country. She’s nail polish; he’s corporate mergers. Can a fake engagement bring these two opposites together? Cole’s mother and Lorenzo are fooled, but between meeting a husky puppy and a persistent goat, Cole and Sophie’s attraction grows. While performing Christmas makeovers on the residents of Hardly, Sophie realizes her dreams of opening her own salon and finding true love might both be within reach. She just has to convince Cole to make their fake engagement real.
MOON TEARS, by Muffet Frische. Adapted from the novel by M. M. Frische. In the works, Moon Tears is a Coming of Age film.
1941. When fog requires Japanese dignitaries to reroute their flight from San Francisco to remote Claret Lake, fourteen-year-old Lou Davis becomes suspicious about the direction of the war. Two weeks later, her dreams of becoming a pilot are ripped away when Pearl Harbor is attacked and an error from the 1940 census results in every male over eighteen being drafted and all the women leaving to work in factories on the coast. Lou and her asthma are left behind—and in charge. Running a town full of unruly kids is worse than a full-blown asthma attack, and the only thing she sees looming on the horizon are enemy planes and a boatload of disaster. Between snake bites, bouts with gangrene, and less than prosperous crops, how is she supposed to save a whole town when harsh winters descend, food becomes scarce, and the enemy threatens to destroy everything she has fought so hard to protect? Then Lou remembers the ancient legend…the legend of the Moon Tears. Staking her town’s survival on lore from the past, she channels her inner Amelia Earhart and takes off toward an unknown future. Inspired by true events, Moon Tears is a coming-of-age story—a story of war, a story of loss, a story of survival.