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TREATMENT
3 DAY TEST
Modern society has made it easy for people to fall into a constant, busy routine. Making us aloof to the people closest to us, the daily grind has particularly taken its toll on the Taylor family. Now, on the verge of Christmas break, one man is about to take his family hostage in order to reconnect.
Deep in the heartland… MARTIN TAYLOR is your average father. An accountant, whose nature is to dutifully “ account” for the lives of his clients and his family, he drives over an hour a day each way to work in the “city” while his wife and kids enjoy the safer and more comfortable haven of a “small town life.” He works hard to support his family and loves them with a zealous passion, but feels severely underappreciated. Lately, the books aren’t adding up, he’s not getting back what he puts in…
One night, after finding his seventeen-year old daughter LU having had a little too much “Christmas cheer” with her friends, it becomes painfully clear to him that he’s missing out on his kids’ lives, and quickly loosing all communication with them. JESSIE, his five-year old daughter, wears Sponge Bob pajamas and carries around a Cabbage Patch doll named TINA, who “speaks for Jessie” on most occasions. Martin’s twelve-year old son ADAM is a soft-spoken tech wiz with a little bit of an Internet theft problem. The kid has a digital billboard on his bedroom door; the only way that he communicates with his family lately - heck, they wouldn’t know if his voice had changed. His wife, JACKIE, who always seems to be at some sort of “self improvement class,” is oblivious to any problems within the house. She assures Martin that everything is all right – the children are just going through “stages” - but Martin can’t go on like this and becomes frustrated. Add to that, his house is also in slight disrepair, and some TLC is needed there too. He’s got all the tools fix everything, but simply lacks the time… and motivation.
After a particularly hectic day, he escapes to the garage, like he always does, to sneak a forbidden cigarette and reflect. Looking at all of the unused tools hung neatly nearby, Martin gets an idea. He runs to his computer and pops in a disk that his survivalist brother SAM has given him. Martin is a little too skeptical to consider what the disk suggests because his brother, presumably inspired by the same disk, has turned his own house in town into a fortress with bunkers to protect his family from “the coming Armageddon.” Needless to say, most in town consider Sam to be the resident “nutcase.” Reluctantly, and at wits end, Martin watches the disk anyway. He’s drawn in as it challenges him to save his family and take the “THREE DAY TEST.”
The “test” is designed to put a family into an emergency situation as follows: Without warning and as a total surprise, at a most inconvenient time, turn off ALL utilities coming into the home. No water, no gas, no electricity, no heat. Round up the cell phones and lock ‘em away. No land line, no Internet. Pull the curtains, lock the doors; nobody leaves the house, nobody comes into the house… for THREE FULL DAYS. The family must use only the resources they find INSIDE and that’s it…just like a real emergency might happen. All well and good, except Martin Taylor pops this on his family three days before Christmas!
On the very night Martin watches the disk, the process begins. He follows the test booklet that comes with the disk word for word, shutting down the house and locking the world out. He even goes to the extreme of putting plastic sheets over all the windows and doors, securing them with duct tape. (Remember the anthrax scare?) The next morning his family wakes up to the cold reality of their fate for the next three days. Under a lot of protest, Martin demands their cooperation with an iron fist. As they grind out the days, burning old furniture for heat and using candles to cook, nibbling on morsels of food, they are constantly disturbed by the outside world. Police and news media stake out the place waiting for the situation to explode.
Even with constant surveillance and harassment from local cops and a nosey news crew, there is one particular annoyance that may cause the Taylor family to fail the test. Martin’s brother Sam, the one responsible for this mess, has his own mission: to destroy the morale of the Taylor family – as a part of the “test” of course. With untimely nighttime raids, Sam and his cronies torment the Taylors by stealing their supplies and all remaining food. On a subsequent night they steal the family’s dog and newborn puppies. By the final night, Christmas Eve, and now on a personal level, the Taylors must work together to get through the final hours of the test and defeat Sam and his gang as they “attack” one more time. Drawing on all they have learned over the three days, they dismantle their own house, steal power from the next-door neighbor’s collection of antique cars, and become a family, “bonded,” like they never were before.
3 Day Test
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