Okay, since my one major question is really really small, i'll try to reply this thread to include more questions in a little bit.

First off, I have a teen mystery movie and really think it could be something genius. Of the 5 movies I've come up with in the past few months, none have intrigued me this much. The problem is, I'm having trouble coming up with a mystery. What would you suggest I do to creat a mystery? I have a plot, you see, but nothing to tie it together. Also, it may seem weird to have this structure without a reason but Im confident it could work out with tweaking. So what do you suggest I do to come up with a mystery...

Ill give you a general plot synopsis for you to peruse:
Julia is a high school girl just trying to get by. She's always had spunk and wit, but ever since the death of her mom and a good friend she has gained a lot in the way of moral. Shes trying to prove the mom and the friends case are tied together in this thrilling teen mystery.

Feel free to tweak bits an pieces. Also, I wont use any of your ideas but take things out from each one. So if you said one thing and I like it, ill use it... but ill ultimately fix it up to be my own idea. Thanks

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Second, Ill have a script piece for anyone to peruse and comment on. Its short, and I just want to know whether the diologue is good or just different.

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Oh, and I know I have a lot of posts on this movie, but I really cant contain myself Im desperate for a mystery plot.

One night the mom says she's going to go pick up Julia's friend Stacey, the mom calls up Julia saying, "OK dear, i just picked up stacey, I'll be home in about five minutes". But the mom and the friend never show up.Julia is scared and finds out there was a car accident and that her mom is dead, but what doesnt make sense is that Stacey was not found at the crime scene. So blah blah Julia investigates and finds out that her mother was overprotective and paranoid over Julia's saftey, so she took up pretening to be a girl named Stacey in order to watch after her daughter. if you throw in some side story about how the town is being overpopulated by turtles, you may have something really neat.

Here's the real truth in this mystery, their bodies were never found and the truth is that Julia's mother and her friend were closet lesbians, who faked their own deaths, took the insurance money and moved to Fuji (or is it Fiji?). It sounds like crap but it will make 100 million dollars at the box office sadly enough. I think it's **** (sorry, I'll try to help).

You've come up with some characters, mainly Julia, why don't you put them in a real situation, not some Nancy Drew bull****. That's not real. Give her a real life with real people, real problems, and real emotions. Then maybe people will care more, that's not genius though, anybody can do it, hacks like me do it. But then again genius is the kind of stuff that gave us "White Chicks" now isn't it. Genius is over-rated. Do something real, sadly it's been short on supply in the bio pic, comic book, remake/sequel hungry "genuises" in Hollywood.