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Another Black List winning script which will putatively be turned into a movie, directed by none other than the great documentary-maker Errol Morris, and starring Bryan Cranston and Naomi Watts; Holland, Michigan is a darkly humorous suburban thriller with one hell of a plot twist at the mid-point.

The story follows a Midwestern teacher who suspects her husband is being unfaithful and subsequently enlists the help of a fellow teacher she actually fancies herself to help catch him in the act. What starts as an investigation in spousal fidelity becomes a terrible story of murder and loss.

The fluffiness that marks the first half of the screenplay is jettisoned off into thriller land in the second half of the screenplay, where the darkest familial secrets are waiting to be uncovered. It's basically two films in one, an often risky approach to screenwriting, one that hopes the audience will feel as though they've received 'double' the story rather than actually received neither. I mean, how the hell will they market Holland, Michigan, as a screwball family drama or as a dark and cerebral thriller?

Whichever path they choose, Sodorski deserves credit for writing such a fresh piece. His portrayal of midwestern life and the dark undercurrents beneath it are both funny and shocking, warm and yet impossibly cold. The script reads like something the Coen brothers might have produced in their heyday. the script pulls the reader in different directions at once and it's going to be interesting to see how they blend the different genres together for the screen translation.