Feature | English

Production Status: In Development

Genre: Comedy

Awards: Winner of the National Lampoon “Girlz Rule” script contest

 

Tagline: Grandma needs cash. Now!

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Logline: Newly widowed Peggy finding herself short of cash, impulsively applies for a bounty hunter job and gets it. She then engages her grandson, Alex, and her best friends to capture Harry, a man who swindles older women. He attempts to charm them all, until Peggy finally turns the tables and captures him.

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Synopsis: Newly widowed Peggy, finding herself short of cash, impulsively applies for the bounty hunter job offered to her late husband. She engages the help of her grandson, Alex and her best friends: retired actress Edie and librarian Rosaline, who are all in. Out to save the world, the women's first target is Harry, a man who swindles older women he finds on a senior dating site. They set up a stakeout, which turns into a huge failure. Next, they try to catch him by creating fake dating profiles as heiresses. Harry takes their bait and soon offers Rosaline a financial scam, tries to get Edie into bed, and seems to be falling for Peggy before plotting to steal her home. But Peggy turns the tables, with the help of Alex and her friends.

 

Producers: Carol Bidault de l'Isle

Writer: Nancy Breslin

Production Counsel: Paige Gold

Duration (in minutes): 99

Budget: $3 Million USD

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About the Producer: Carol Bidault de l’Isle is an award-winning producer, specializing in international motion picture/television financing, distribution, and media asset acquisitions/management. She brings with her over 30 years of industry experience in the United States, Europe, and Latin America. 

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About the Writer: Nancy Breslin is a Washington, DC-based photographer and filmmaker. She is the writer and producer of the award-winning short stop-motion film Velo Love, which screened at film festivals in 2024-2025. Her award-winning feature script The Bounty Hunters is being produced by MediaFusion Entertainment. She also specializes in photographs taken with pinhole and plastic cameras. For some projects she works with alternative photographic processes, video, and her cell phone. She has been interviewed by major press, such as NPR and Washington Post, including Mark Jenkins, who said of her pinhole work, "In her pictures, even the present is absent." Her popular video, "A Five-Minute Introduction to Pinhole Photography," is on Vimeo and YouTube. 

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