Ramp Rats
Screenwriter
Ramp Rats is a labor of love having worked in the aviation industry for over 20 years. My father started in 1973 and my brother and I grew up airline brats. We flew standby our entire lives and moved from place to place a couple of times.
It’s a great industry, with resilient, funny, quirky, talented, for the most part people. This is basically paying homage to the Ramp worker. One of the most unappreciated and unsung folks of the airline industry. Ramping, you either know or you don’t.
Biography
Tom is an aspiring screenwriter, meaning he has written two fantastic screenplays, entered numerous contests and hasn't sold them yet. Hence "aspiring", because you can't call yourself something if you haven't done it yet! His goal is to see his work make people laugh on the big screen. His love for movies and knack for creating hilarious story lines came into play while working at O'Hare International Airport where he decided to document and critique the underbelly of the aviation industry, meaning the "pit" of the airplane and all of the amazing antics that goes on while you're boarding your plane and hoping your bag makes it to your destination. He wrote this as a single parent who had just got custody of his son and moved back in with his parents. Humor was all he had. Anyway, that's how Ramp Rats was born. A movie for anyone who has ever flown on a plane or just simply wondered what it's like to throw bags your whole life. Nice target market!
Along with his love of aviation, Tom's obsession with 70's and 80's toys prompted him to write a story about the action figure industry and how in the 90's until present day, toy collectors run amuck and buy up all of the toys that kids should be getting at their local stores, but now have to buy on-line or at comic book stores with marked up prices. This begged the question; what would Tom and his friends have done if they couldn't find Star Wars or G.I. Joe figures? They would've fought to the death. This was the creation of The Toy Mob. A Sandlot meets Stand By Me meets E.T. kinship of a group of kids fighting to get what is rightfully theirs, their toys.