In 2005, Doug Maguire suffers a hard loss as an Anaheim Angels fan. Maguire also shares the first name of Major League Baseball Umpire Doug Eddings, the home plate umpire who missed an obvious strike 3 call and the ump who wears #88.
One moment in time sends Maguire on a journey of what you see here...
FADE IN:
A 30 page screenplay was written for "Ei8hty-Ei8ht" - something many had encouraged to get down on paper once they heard about the die hard Angels fans in Anaheim, an unhelpful desk clerk at a motel in Glendale and some neo-Nazi skinhead meth dealers from San Francisco.
Here are the first 8 pages:
In 2020, Doug Maguire used a COVID-19 stimulus check to submit his screenplay into eighty-eighty Film Festivals and Award Shows worldwide. Most of the submissions were done online through the FilmFreeway website.
