Based on the writer’s novel. In 1987, following a public outcry about its questionable medical practices, Staten Island’s Willowbrook State School for people with intellectual disabilities closed its doors for good. Flat broke and almost finished with graduate school, Dan Tomasulo — now a core faculty member at Columbia University’s Spirituality Mind Body Institute —… Continue reading SCRIPT MOVIE: AMERICAN SNAKE PIT, by Daniel Tomasulo
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Feature Screenplay – AMERICAN SNAKE PIT, by Dan Tomasulo
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Crime Young Doctor Dan is a stuck-in-graduate school, some-day-would-be psychologist with a failing marriage and dead-end job. Desperate to change his place in the world, he takes a job at Walden House. This group home recently took on violent patients from the notorious Willowbrook, the worst asylum in American history. Doctor Dan… Continue reading Feature Screenplay – AMERICAN SNAKE PIT, by Dan Tomasulo
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