The Lucky Sperm Club
The Lucky Sperm Club: Coming of Age, Romantic Comedy with a subtext of social consciousness as a riches-to-rags scenario enlightens a white, privileged man.
Tone: Wedding Crashers meets Trading Places
Logline: A wealthy college kid gets kicked out of his prestigious family by his heartless father and launches the first celebrity sperm donor bank with the help of his brilliant, female African American tutor. Together they turn The Lucky Sperm Club into a global fundraising effort to fight childhood poverty, and he transforms from being a spoiled, entitled kid into a man with integrity and humanity. Only after he finds authentic compassion and empathy for mankind is he finally worthy of her love.
Overview: The Lucky Sperm Club is about finding one’s humanity in a materialistic culture that’s obsessed with celebrities, wealth, and status. The ability to connect on a profound level depends on becoming a deeper, more compassionate human being. The ‘sperm’ is a metaphor for the energy of new beginnings whether it’s new life or new love or a new idea of what constitutes a family. Their interracial romance and myriad of sperm donors
Synopsis: Eddie Wainwright (21) is a rebel. He comes from a ‘blue blood’ family of lawyers and politicians and longs to be a Major League pitcher. His father, Edward Senior (58) controls his life with his money and power. The two never got along, as if they weren’t really related. In an opening , animated sequence, the audience is privy to a lively “sperm party” (Eddie’s conception), which makes it clear that Senior isn’t Eddie’s biological father because an aggressive and athletic “Super Sperm” swims ahead of all the others in fierce competition for the egg penetration while his father Senior’s scrawny, unmotivated sperm naps on the couch.
Eddie reluctantly attends the family alma mater (an exclusive, Ivy League school), parties up a storm, and nearly flunks out. He hires Josie Emerson (20), a brilliant, African American woman as his tutor. They become close friends. Instead of paying her in cash for the tutoring, Josie instructs him to donate large sums of his family’s money to her favorite charities. Eddie falls in love with her, but she won’t consider him romantically because he’s so spoiled and immature, even though he’s really a good guy. After she gets him great grades and even manages to educate him along the way, Josie recommends a brainy Indian guy to tutor him for his LSATS. The night before he’s scheduled to take them, Eddie panics and hires the guy as his proxy instead. Of course, they get busted for cheating. His father ‘fires’ him from the family and cuts him off financially. This is the journey he never expected to take, but the only one that will force him to find his authentic self. Eddie discovers unspoken secrets about his family’s past and learns some harsh truths about the ‘real’ world. Josie remains his only true friend as he embarks on life without his financial safety net.
To avoid going to jail, Eddie’s father arranges for him to get a hefty community service assignment. Eddie spends most of his time working (and often staying) at a homeless shelter. He makes friends and hatches an outrageous plan to create the first celebrity sperm donor bank. Utilizing his connections from his previous lifestyle, Eddie secures some sought-after celebrity sperm and launches his company (The Lucky Sperm Club). However, he’s still having trouble turning this idea into a lucrative business, until Josie comes on board. She adds the necessary heart and creates a fundraising component. The Lucky Sperm Club takes off. Eddie and Josie create a global fund raising event called, ‘Sperm-a-Palooza,’ a combination of worldwide music festivals and a ‘real time’ celebrity sperm donor auction. It’s a huge success, raises millions, and garners some pretty high-profile sperm for the company’s freezer.
Eddie finally proves that he’s worthy of her love. They finally get together and start to make love. He’s elated since he has been in love with her all along. She’s happy and she’s also ovulating. She dashes to the freezer and ‘samples’ some of the celebrity sperm in a gesture of unity and daring. The final moments of the script harken back to the opening animation sequence with another wild sperm party going on in Josie’s womb. This time, the Eddie Sperm has some heavy-hitter celebrity sperm to compete against as he pushes and shoves the other sperm of the way (accompanied by actual celebrity voice-overs or impersonations). It all comes down to Eddie and Stevie Wonder in a fierce competition for the egg. May the best sperm win!
