THE OTHER SIDE OF HOME

Have you ever had Kentucky Fried Chicken for Christmas dinner?

In Japan, millions do. And Christmas Eve? That’s practically Valentine’s Day!

My completed feature, The Other Side of Home, is a cross-cultural romantic dramedy set in the world of Dodgers baseball.

Meet Mel Cruz, a sidelined Latina journalist desperate for a career comeback. And Kenji Tanaka, the Dodgers’ famously private Japanese superstar, who’d rather face a hundred-mile-an-hour fastball than a reporter.

They meet in a KFC line. She’s hangry. He’s trying to order Christmas chicken. In America!

When Mel protects him from the cameras, she earns his trust. Soon he’s making tamales with her loud Mexican family, and she’s spending Christmas with his family in Nagoya, Japan.

But one careless sentence threatens everything. Now Mel must choose between the story that could save her career and the man she’s falling for.

Think The Idea of You meets Crazy Rich Asians, with baseball, Christmas, and two cultures connected by food and family.

Because sometimes home isn’t a place. It’s wherever somebody tells you, “Eat.”

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Behind the scenes on Substack: Writing My Dodgers Baseball Movie