Jerry Polner

The real estate agent Freddie Strauss, still trying to live down her hard-scrabble youth, tries to put on the right airs to sell million dollar homes to the wealthy young professional set. Her newest customer couple is prepared to buy at the full asking price. But they want a guarantee that the “cultural identity” of the neighborhood – the ancestry, child-rearing, religiosity, and social habits of the residents – are a good match for their sensitive palates. Freddie reluctantly agrees to carry out this investigation, right up until the community reacts to her probe by vandalizing her car, getting her evicted from her apartment, and pulling her realtor license. Isn’t culture supposed to be a good thing?

The free-spirited Marie, who loves her liberty too much to work for a living, is sentenced to court-ordered therapy for stealing the engine from her ex-boss’s car and selling it back to him on e-Bay. But the treatment is an art therapy regimen she can’t stomach, and the corrupt but artistic therapist is using Marie to commit even greater crimes for the purpose of settling a personal score. How far does Marie have to go to become truly free?

The rabid fan group for Preston for the Road, a cancelled cult adventure series about a fugitive math teacher, has hit rock bottom. Sean Michael Sean, the enigmatic Irish actor who starred as Preston, refuses to make any new episodes. Friendless LOIS joined the fan group in the vain hope of recreating the tight circle of Bohemian BFFs she had in college. She puts her whole heart into a stage version of Preston to keep interest up and raise money. Now the stage show is a success. So why won’t anyone be friends with Lois?

Florence has a love-hate relationship with the American labor movement ever since she walked away from a Chicago teacher strike. But when she’s hired to teach community college math to the next generation of manufacturing workers, she takes her class on a cross-country field trip to reenact the greatest strikes in American labor history. Everyone loves it, right up until the president of the college finds out.

In 1910 Chicago, a suffragist-social reformer woman asks an immigrant mechanic to build her a new steam boiler. But instead of central heating, the pair gets drawn into the Progressive Era political struggle over how money and labor will collide. The first ever romantic comedy about the founding of the Federal Reserve Bank.

Flood Stage is an environmental disaster comedy. In a coastal city wracked by a climate change superstorm, the response of the mayor and the city council has been its own disaster. Only two women have the chops and the public spirit to save their hometown. And today, they both set out to destroy each other.

A D student with a chip on his shoulder, Denny leaves home to start his own business. His resume-writing service, Lie Like a Rug, will empower any jobseeker to fraudulently land their dream job. Three charismatic potential partners each brag to Denny about their street-level artisanship and how he absolutely has to take them into his business in order to beat out their competitor, the notorious Lady Godfrey. He agonizes over losing control of his baby, right up until he discovers the conspiracy – each of his partners is secretly on Godfrey's payroll, all working to guarantee that Denny will fail.

What is the horrible accounting truth and why doesn't anyone want to hear it? Gwen is a mid-career CPA who secretly always wanted to be the class clown, and now she's running out of time. She might be able to make a career transition if only she wasn't the deputy state auditor charged with getting a corrupt state government out of bankruptcy. Gwen gives the authorities her accounting truth, only to find that what they really wanted was the class clown.

Jane the Travel Agent, hounded by an idiot boss, dreams of pursuing her true calling as an international spy. When her rich, lovesick customer wants to hire Jane to “fix” his life with whatever tawdry subterfuge is necessary, she jumps at the chance.

Suppose you’re a smart, talented high school senior and you know for a fact that nothing is true. On learning that her bomb-thrower online exposé of the school board will prevent her from graduating, Mimi decides to stop believing in anything. But she loves her Dad. How can she give up without betraying him?

Did that last temp job seem like the beginnings of a police state, or was it just your imagination? In a gig-economy world where the biggest temp agency has all but taken over the government, civil rights have gone the way of pension plans. Desperate for a job, Claire takes a promising position snuffing out a popular rebellion. She’s certain she can do whatever the job requires until discovering that her best friend is the one leading the revolution.

Dirty Looks is a less-than-romantic comedy about a youth empowerment program, Juventud de la Tierra, with a reputation as a sanctimonious cult, but a really well managed one. Our main character Bronwyn, an ex-teacher with a shady past, is desperate to make the transition to being a fundraiser. At her final job interview at Juventud, Bronwyn is told that she has the job, and that she is expected to become the program director’s girlfriend.

When the son of a divorced and miserable couple of burnt-out ex-musicians runs away from home to join up with the immigrant worker rights movement, mom and dad are forced to travel across North America together to find their boy.

A comedy about the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Our main character Minerva, an exchange student from the Dominican Republic, is failing at the subject miserably, and she will do absolutely anything to avoid the embarrassment and shame of returning home as a failure.

A child-hungry couple discovers a new path to adoption.

A young gig worker finally gets her due.

In the world of engagement marketing, a young professional learns the secret of selling cosmetics to teens.

Two goats have a disagreement about U.S. immigration policy.