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Loglines for Computer Programmers

When I’m not working on a spec screenplay, or telling jokes I’m writing software and trying to figure out how to work it into a screenplay or a joke. Here are some loglines I came up with for computer-programmer movies. These are all sure to hit at the box office.

A lot of you won’t get it. Very nerdy stuff. That’s okay. Pretend it didn’t happen.

Big ‘O’ Notation 

Whitney, a young engineer at Google, isn’t looking for anything more than rebound sex, but when she meets a passionate Linux hacker at a Tweetup, will she be able to settle for a one night stand?

Inversion of Control 

Sara is a dominatrix who is used to holding the reins, but her world is turned upside down when she’s taken hostage in a bank robbery. The robber may be the one with the gun, but is he really in charge of the situation?

Dependency Injection

Steve is a ruby on rails developer whose carefree bachelor lifestyle is put on hold when he finds out that not only does he have an infant daughter, but the court has ordered him to assume custody!

Buffer Overflow

The stakes couldn’t be higher as a team of eco-avengers attempt to cripple the systems of all the world’s largest polluting corporations simultaneously. Can they pull off this legendary hack in time to reverse the tide of Global Warming?

Test-Driven Development

Joe is a robotics engineer in the safety lab at Toyota. Can this recently widowed man learn to open up to human emotions? Or will his quest to create autonomic crash test dummies consume the last of his spirit?

Kanban

From acclaimed director Kiichiro Aichi comes this masterful samurai epic about a young ronin who is renowned for the quality of his work. Will the next assignment he pulls be his last? This action-packed thrill ride will have you screaming “Taiichi Oh Yes!”