my film treatment Gone Daddy Gone

One morning a boy wakes up and happens to look out window and sees his father slowly rising off the ground and starting to drift away with the wind.

Frightened, he runs outside. "Papa balloon," he cries. "Come back!"

"I can't," shouted his father, Papa balloon.

"Why are you flying away? Please, come back! Please!"

"I can't stop it! I am filled with helium. The laws of physics dictate that I keep going up into the air!"

"I don't understand! Just come back!"

"I told you, I can't," howled Papa balloon, his voice growing fainter as he'd already climbed much higher.

The rest of the family soon joined the boy. They too shouted at Papa Balloon to come back down. But by now Papa Balloon's voice had grown too faint to be understood.


That's all I have so far. I think I need more to fill a movie's run time. Maybe I will have the boy grow up and go searching for his father and/or whoever filled him with helium.

It'll never get made because you have have to have connections in the business to get anywhere, but I had to get this story out of my system somehow.