Husband and Wife Team

Matthew & Mercy (The Writing Duo)

Specializing in family-friendly comedy, heartfelt adventures and deep meanings, Matt and Mercy are a hard-working husband/wife screenwriting team.
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“The New Car”

The family gets into a car accident and gets a pleasant surprise and some unexpected results. While being punished, Francis makes the find of a lifetime at Marlin Academy.

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“No TV”

Debra decides to ban TV and it’s harder than she thought, even with help from an unexpected source.

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“Sheldon and the Girl”

Sheldon has to face a problem he can’t out-smart when a cute girl starts giving him attention.

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“Welcome to the Power Outage”

The families get to know each other a little too well when the power goes out and they decide to spend the evening together.

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Feature-Length Scripts

Samples of some of our favorite, recent, feature-length scripts.

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Short Scripts

Samples of stories less than 20 minutes or TV episodes.

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Some Sayings That Can Be Heard While Writing…

When a woman gets squeaky, she just needs a little love and chocolate. Chocolate is a woman's WD40.- Matt
You're the reason birds don't chirp in the morning. They get up, and then they see you and they're like.... forget it! I'm not pretty!- Matt
Armies don't change the world. Without stories, they're just people. It's the stories we tell ourselves, the stories we tell our children, that change the course of our world.- Mercy
It wasn't Aristotled enough.- Matt
She wasn't someone I wanted to spend time with.- Mercy's mom, discussing a fictional character from a book she didn't finish