THE MOUNTAIN MOVER

Well, today's post is a little (a lot) different.

My book is done.

The screenplay is done.

The book is published and will likely be available for sale before Christmas on Amazon and all the other usual suspects.

I am looking for someone who wants the movie rights. There are lots of charlatans out there, and I am in uncharted waters. I have no clue... but I will figure it out.

I'm hoping that someone has a connection...

Maybe or maybe not!

Here is the pitch:

THE MOUNTAIN MOVER

Feature Film Overview

Based on the memoir by Mark Stephen Timmons

Logline

After a wrongful conviction tears him from his young daughter, an Indiana entrepreneur serving forty years teaches himself law and fights to expose the evidence kept from his defense, determined to regain his freedom and rebuild the family he has lost.

The story

Mark Timmons once promised his little girl, Tamar, that he would always save her. When he is accused of sexually abusing her, that promise becomes impossible to keep. He refuses a plea agreement that would spare him prison, unwilling to confess to something he did not do. In 1987, he received a forty-year sentence.

Five years of waiting brought a failed appeal and the end of his second marriage. His father, Steve, offers a challenge and a commitment: Mark has a mountain to move, and Steve will be his boots on the ground. Mark trades his prison plumbing job for a job at the law library and begins learning how to build his own case.

Legal textbooks, expert guidance, and relentless preparation turn his anger into a strategy. He protects his papers during a dangerous prison transfer, gains access to sealed records, and returns to court to represent himself. Witness by witness, he confronts the accounts used against him with the interviews and evidence his defense was denied. On the fifth day, the State asks that his conviction be overturned and the charges dismissed. On August 31, 1994, after seven years, five months, and five days, Mark walks free.

His son Eddie runs into his arms, but the years cannot simply be returned. Grief and single fatherhood test him again before he finds lasting love with Patty and rebuilds a business beside her. Reconciliation with Tamar takes far longer. The film ends at her wedding, where father and daughter finally share the dance they once lost.

The lead role and the film

Mark offers a physically commanding, quick-witted lead whose confidence can be both a strength and a liability. The role moves from entrepreneurial charm and prison confrontation to disciplined courtroom work, grief, and vulnerable fatherhood. His growth is visible in the way he learns to listen, prepare, and let the evidence speak.

The film combines courtroom suspense with an intimate family drama. Faith emerges through perseverance, unexpected kindness, and Mark’s refusal to pursue revenge. The courtroom victory delivers release; the father-daughter reunion gives that freedom its deepest meaning.

Available materials: Memoir and developmental screenplay by Mark Stephen Timmons

This is a Wild-Ass Idea... but what the hell...