On this hot summer day a single mother navigates her messy divorce and a fling, while her daughters are left to forage for themselves, but when her lover and ex-husband unexpectedly collide, priorities shift leading to a surprising resolution.
SMOOTHIES takes place in the rural Hudson Valley as Laura, a mother of two waits anxiously for a hook up with Ian a younger man she's meeting on the pretext of buying the vintage automobile her ex husband has for sale, her daughters have spent their day roaming the hillside unsupervised, picking berries and mooning passing cars on route 52. The neighborhood watch (same sex neighbors) have observed the girls and decide to whistleblow. Laura reaches the landline too late to hear her neighbors searing indictment of her parenting, but now her ex husband Fen has surprised her and her lover, Ian. Laura's girls return triumphant from foraging and elated to find their dad has stopped by they mob him with love. Caught out, Laura's lover has to make good on his interest in the vintage car for sale and that's when things get very tricky.
Deborah Goodwin has written for Emmy-winning and Independent Spirit Award nominated Producers, and for shows like the cult favorite horror series “Tales from The Cryptkeeper.” She is a Film Independent (FIND) and IFP lab (The Gotham) fellow, best known for her horror fable Vampires in Venice, (Marché du Film Cannes) and The Pastor, an action-drama released by Fathom Events and AMC. Deborah is a Sundance Institute Co//ab advisor and screenwriting professor at NYU/Tisch and Brooklyn College, recently she wrote and co-created the noir-crime series Hot Freeze, based on IP of the same title, the pilot sold to Canadian producer Nomadic (Fargo, Van Helsing, Hell on Wheels) Deborah spent a decade in development in Hollywood before getting traction as a screenwriter and independent filmmaker, selling her first animated spec and winning the Grand Jury Prize at Urbanworld Film Festival. Most recently - Deborah created and launched the scripted podcast/audio series Fear, A Love Story rated among the top 100 fiction podcasts in 2022 with over 78,000 downloads on Apple in S1 — 2022 - S2 —2023 and S3 2025 launched with an 9/10 on Amazon, now available on all platforms.
Outstanding Screenplays - Short Competition - Quarter Finalist 2024
