Movie Premise

Title: Outlook

Open on young guy, dressed corporate, but with a little extra flair. He's walking on a downtown sidewalk trying to look confident, but as he sidesteps an oncoming pedestrian, he nearly trips on a shoe-shine man.

Our hero works in a large corporate setting and takes the elevator to an upper, though not top, floor. He is relatively successful in the early stages of his career. He has some good friends, but he is struggling in the romance department.

One day at work he receives a company-wide email sent by a friend of his in the office. He hits the "Reply All" button by mistake and types a message that is clearly meant only for his friend.

It reads "Man, I couldn't get away from that girl at the club last night. I finally had to pay Josie, you know, that waitress with the sweater, to sneak me out the back door." The message is not truthful, of course, just part of a boredom-fighting game he and his friend play. Each tries to one-up the other in ongoing descriptions of fictional social lives.

Of course, it doesn't take long for the email to spark a great deal of interest among co-workers, particularly the unmarried female ones. There's something about that sense of mystery and who doesn't know the guilty pleasure of eavesdropping when we get a misrouted email or phone message?

And suddenly, our romantically challenged hero has more prospects than one man can manage. Sure, there's a little fallout. He gets a speech about email protocol from the VP of Personnel, but he also gets the unsolicited phone number of the VP's attractive young secretary on the way out.

Cinematic hi jinks ensue. With a likable lead actor in the mold of Tom Hanks, it might make a good movie.