WORK SPOUSE

Finished this script by Geoff Barbanell and Arland DiGirolamo.

This is a classic example of a great concept with poor execution.  The pitch is high-concept enough to get meetings.  A jealous husband takes a job at his wife's company to compete against her work spouse. 

However, once you read the script, you quickly realize this writing pair cannot pull it off.  Script needs a page one rewrite.

Again, the plot is just too predictable and the jokes are non-existent.  A great script will build upon its concept.  A poor one relies on the concept to do all the work.

Story involves Steve, a failed baseball player stuck in the minor leagues at 36.  His wife however is doing nicely at her company, working with Barry who appears to be the perfect man.  However, complications ensue when Steve learns that Barry is secretly trying to steal his wife away from him.

This could've been a great commentary on work-place relationships.  Instead, it relies on low-grade humor and subplots that go nowhere.  Barry's in-laws are set up to be a plot complication.  They're never developed.  Barry's failure in life isn't really addressed.  The whole baseball angle is wasted.

In fact, you start to wonder what Barry's wife ever saw in him in the first place.

Definite pass on the writers.