In Progress: "Player"
When we meet nine year old Noah Dickerson and his twenty seven year old single mother in 1967, they appear to be two of the typically poor, Black survivors living in the deteriorating “projects” of New York. But there is nothing typical about Noah and the destiny he is determined to carve out of his tragic beginnings. Noah reads and dreams about the men and woman who became successes in America; J.P. Morgan, Henry Ford, Malcom X, Leonard Bernstein, Elvis Presley, etc. He plans to be one of them. And when his life is turned upside down, defending his mother, Noah starts out on an odyssey that will make him one of America’s Fortune 500 by age 27 and his own version of Donald Trump and a government collaborator by fifty.
In a violent conflict to save his mother, Noah, the child, kills a man. The added tragedy of his sacrifice is compounded in less than a month when his mother dies from pills and a leap from their twelve story tenement.
Hardened and alone, Noah takes care of himself. Carrying his little black and white school notebook filled with his poems and raps and business plans, his dreams, Noah earns the respect of the local characters in his ghetto. Among them are 13 year old Jimmy Sweets, a smart ambitious street pimp, Papa a, big, tough but loyal thug, Cold Katt, though crude and vicious, an emerging rap star. He also meets Florence a 15 year old back-up singer and junkie to whom he loses his desperate little heart and virginity. Joining forces with these characters who have varying motives to use Noah’s talents, Noah begins to make money and contacts turning Cold Katt from a wanna-be to a legitimate star in the music business.
In time Noah leaves Cold Katt behind. With the loyalty of Papa to protect him, an ambitious blonde law student Julia Dawson to give him legal advice, he begins to carve out his own career as a singing star and businessman. A serious relationship grows between Noah and Julia that is somewhat romantically inhibited by the hold of the memories and demons from his past and some racial identity issues. Julia, loyal to a fault, nurtures Noah’s career and while loving him, waits for him to become free emotionally to commit.
Shrewd and aggressive, Noah builds his empire (a cross between Def Jam Records and Donald Trump). Accepted socially by power brokers, politicians, Religious leaders, a mob boss and yet being squeezed by an FBI investigation, Noah rises to the top of America’s business royalty. Sophisticated and well liked, he succeeds. Only Julia’s eventual marriage to a business tycoon and her rise to the US Senate muddy her business loyalty and private love affair with Noah.
When Noah takes a young intern under his wing, only to find out too late that she is more than he imagined, a number of other truths and violent conclusions come crashing down, threatening to destroy all he’s built. The murder he committed in his childhood haunts him in more ways than he knows and in a stirring conclusion truth, love, rage, remorse and redemption force Noah, the ultimate “player” in life, to face himself and his world which suddenly changes in an unexpected climax. This is the story of an American Dream/Tragedy.
Interested potential investors are invited to contact us for more details.
In a violent conflict to save his mother, Noah, the child, kills a man. The added tragedy of his sacrifice is compounded in less than a month when his mother dies from pills and a leap from their twelve story tenement.
Hardened and alone, Noah takes care of himself. Carrying his little black and white school notebook filled with his poems and raps and business plans, his dreams, Noah earns the respect of the local characters in his ghetto. Among them are 13 year old Jimmy Sweets, a smart ambitious street pimp, Papa a, big, tough but loyal thug, Cold Katt, though crude and vicious, an emerging rap star. He also meets Florence a 15 year old back-up singer and junkie to whom he loses his desperate little heart and virginity. Joining forces with these characters who have varying motives to use Noah’s talents, Noah begins to make money and contacts turning Cold Katt from a wanna-be to a legitimate star in the music business.
In time Noah leaves Cold Katt behind. With the loyalty of Papa to protect him, an ambitious blonde law student Julia Dawson to give him legal advice, he begins to carve out his own career as a singing star and businessman. A serious relationship grows between Noah and Julia that is somewhat romantically inhibited by the hold of the memories and demons from his past and some racial identity issues. Julia, loyal to a fault, nurtures Noah’s career and while loving him, waits for him to become free emotionally to commit.
Shrewd and aggressive, Noah builds his empire (a cross between Def Jam Records and Donald Trump). Accepted socially by power brokers, politicians, Religious leaders, a mob boss and yet being squeezed by an FBI investigation, Noah rises to the top of America’s business royalty. Sophisticated and well liked, he succeeds. Only Julia’s eventual marriage to a business tycoon and her rise to the US Senate muddy her business loyalty and private love affair with Noah.
When Noah takes a young intern under his wing, only to find out too late that she is more than he imagined, a number of other truths and violent conclusions come crashing down, threatening to destroy all he’s built. The murder he committed in his childhood haunts him in more ways than he knows and in a stirring conclusion truth, love, rage, remorse and redemption force Noah, the ultimate “player” in life, to face himself and his world which suddenly changes in an unexpected climax. This is the story of an American Dream/Tragedy.
Interested potential investors are invited to contact us for more details.