SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICUTRE FROM NEW LINE/WARNER BROS. The emotional and hilarious story of hard-living Todd Cartwright who falls in love with Tammy Everett, a woman who literally saves Todd from himself. But Tammy's suspicious, overly-protective father, Harry, does everything he can to crush the relationship. Todd is not about to give up the greatest thing that's ever happened to him and goes to war with Harry. But when the unthinkable happens, the men dive into a physical and emotionally tailspin that threatens to consume them both. Todd decides to go on the honeymoon alone and return to his destructive ways only to find Harry at the airport with Tami's ashes which Harry intends to spread on the island. Reluctantly, these two wounded souls go on the honeymoon - both for very different reasons - where the enormous anguish consuming them causes them to react in very diffferent and unexpected ways. Though these two men hate each other, each is the only person who can understand the loss that the other has suffered. Todd and Harry are forced to recognize that they have one thing in common: they loved the same women. And that bond causes them both to begrudgingly help the other overcome the gaping loss that has swallowed them and move on with their lives.
With two produced feature films (Live Wire and Supercross,) eleven produced movies for television (including the trilogy of Bride movies - Children of the Bride, Baby of the Bride and Mother of the Bride for CBS, Anyplace But Home for USA Network, Perfect Little Angels and Don't Look Behind You for The Family Channel) work on four television series including Dirt starring Courtney Cox, eight plays produced worldwide, Bart Baker decided to write his first novel. The fruit of that labor is Honeymoon With Harry.
The movie rights to Honeymoon With Harry were purchased by New Line/Warner Bros when the book was in galleys. Oscar winner Paul Haggis wrote the screenplay, and presently Bradley Cooper is attached to star.
Bart's second novel, Immediate Family, will be published by Big Muddy Books in the late fall.
Bart presently lives in Ellisville, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis with his partner and two children. Besides writing, Bart is an avid bodybuilder/fitness buff. He enjoys hanging out with his friends and family, politics, TV and movies, and church. He also teaches writing and film courses at Webster University in St. Louis and gives lectures and seminars on the business of film.
You can discover more about Bart at his web site www.bartbaker.com, on his Facebook page, his blog http://blog.bartbaker.com, or find more about his produced film and TV credits at www.imdb.com.
