Stories by @shbaua912
18 stories

Franny and Zooey (2025)
Franny and Zooey is a 1961 book by J.D. Salinger that collects two stories, "Franny" and "Zooey," focusing on the two youngest members of the precocious Glass family as they grapple with spiritual and existential crises. The book explores themes of authenticity, disillusionment, and the search for meaning, as Franny experiences a breakdown and her brother Zooey tries to guide her through her spiritual and emotional turmoil, drawing on Eastern religions and mysticism.

Rachel Getting Married (2026)
Released from rehab to attend her sister's wedding, drug-abusing tearaway Kym returns to the family home where the ceremony is to take place. As bride-to-be Rachel makes the final preparations for her elaborate yet intimate marriage to musician Sidney, the acerbic Kym's behaviour causes tension in the house. As the dad intercedes on his wayward daughter's behalf, years of bitterness and resentment come the surface.

Margot at the Wedding (2005)
If Margot at the Wedding were made in 2025. Margot at the Wedding is about the familial storm that arises when Margot, a writer, comes to visit her sister Pauline on the eve of the latter's wedding.

Falsettos
Falsettos, a sung-through musical with a book by William Finn and James Lapine, and music and lyrics by Finn, centers on Marvin, who has left his wife to be with a male lover, Whizzer, and struggles to keep his family together. The themes of Jewish identity, gender roles, and gay life in the late 1970s and early 1980s, which includes the AIDS epidemic, are central to the musical.

Mamma Mia (2022)
Donna, an independent hotelier in the Greek islands, is preparing for her daughter's wedding with the help of two old friends. Meanwhile Sophie, the spirited bride, has a plan. She secretly invites three men from her mother's past in hope of meeting her real father and having him escort her down the aisle on her big day.

There Will Be Blood (2020)
If Paul Thomas Anderson's 2007 drama was first made in 2020. Ruthless silver miner, turned oil prospector, Daniel Plainview moves to oil-rich California, where he repeatedly butts heads with local preacher, Eli Sunday.

Little Miss Sunshine (2020)
If Little Miss Sunshine was first made in 2020.

Edward Scissorhands
If Tim Burton's classic film was made in 2020. Edward, an unfinished artificial creation who has scissor blades instead of hands, is taken in by a suburban family. There he falls in love with their teenage daughter, Kim.

Beetlejuice (2021)
If Tim Burton's horror-fantasy classic was first made in 2021, instead of 1988. The plot revolves around a recently deceased couple, Barbara and Adam Maitland, who become ghosts haunting their former home, and an obnoxious, devious poltergeist named Betelgeuse (pronounced Beetlejuice) who tries to help scare away the new inhabitants of the Maitland home.

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
A new film of the classic play: Set in the "plantation home in the Mississippi Delta" of Big Daddy Pollitt, a wealthy cotton tycoon, the play examines the relationships among members of Big Daddy's family, primarily between his son Brick and Maggie the "Cat", Brick's wife.

The Incredibles (1 & 2)
Married superheroes, Bob and Helen Parr (aka Mr. Incredible and Elastigirl,) are forced to assume mundane lives after all super-powered activities have been banned by the government. While Bob loves his wife and kids, he longs to return to a life of adventure. He gets a chance when summoned to an island to battle an out-of-control robot. Soon, however, Mr. Incredible is in trouble, and it's up to his family to save him. In the film's sequel, Telecommunications guru Winston Deavor enlists Helen to fight crime and make the public fall in love with superheroes once again. That leaves Bob with one of his greatest challenges ever -- staying home and taking care of three rambunctious children. As Violet, Dash and Jack-Jack offer him a new set of headaches, a cybercriminal named Screenslaver launches a dastardly plan -- hypnotizing the world through computer screens.

Once upon a mattress
A musical comedy adapted from the fairytale, The Princess and The Pea

Stupid Fucking Bird
A movie or filmed stage performance of Stupid Fucking Bird is a contemporary adaptation of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull. The play takes a satirical spin on a theatrical classic, but has the essence of Chekhov's original intent for the piece—what it means to create art.

The Outsider
At a time when the King brand has never been stronger, he has delivered one of his most unsettling and compulsively readable stories. An eleven-year-old boy's violated corpse is found in a town park. Eyewitnesses and fingerprints point unmistakably to one of Flint City's most popular citizens.

9 To 5
Three working women who live out their fantasies of getting even with, and their overthrow of, the company's autocratic, "sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot" of a boss,

Godspell
Godspell is a musical composed by Stephen Schwartz with the book by John-Michael Tebelak. The musical is structured as a series of parables, primarily based on the Gospel of Matthew. However, four of the featured parables are only recorded in the Gospel of Luke, and the narrative of the woman taken in adultery is only in the Gospel of John. The parables are interspersed with music set primarily to lyrics from traditional hymns, with the passion of Christ appearing briefly near the end of the show.

You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown is a 1967 musical comedy with music and lyrics by Clark Gesner, based on the characters created by cartoonist Charles M. Schulz in his comic strip Peanuts.

Peter and the Starcatcher
It provides a backstory for the characters of Peter Pan, Mrs Darling, Tinker Bell and Hook, and serves as a prequel to J. M. Barrie's Peter and Wendy.