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Maurice Hopkins
He Knew How to Make Money Before He Understood the Price of Growing Up.
Step into A Boy Who Lusts for Freedom: A True Brooklyn Story, a raw coming-of-age screenplay by Maurice Hopkins. From Brooklyn streets and neighborhood hustles to the working side of Coney Island, young Maurice is determined to earn his own money, make his own choices, and answer to nobody.
But the further he pushes into the adult world, the more he discovers that looking grown and being ready for what comes with it are two very different things.
About The Writer
Maurice Hopkins
Maurice Hopkins is the screenplay writer behind A Boy Who Lusts for Freedom: A True Brooklyn Story. Through vivid scenes, direct dialogue, and reflective narration, Hopkins brings to life a childhood shaped by ambition, family conflict, street influence, and an intense hunger for independence.
His storytelling captures both the confidence of a boy determined to grow up quickly and the vulnerability he does not yet recognize in himself.
About The ScreenPlay
A Boy Who Lusts for Freedom
A True Brooklyn Story
Maurice knows how to earn money, talk his way through difficult situations, and make adults believe he belongs.
Understanding the world he is entering is another matter.
Beginning when he is five going on six, A Boy Who Lusts for Freedom follows a Brooklyn boy drawn toward money, independence, and the respect of older men. He becomes a lookout for Old Head, creates his own ways of earning money at Pathmark, and repeatedly pushes against the rules waiting for him at home.
As his family begins to divide, Coney Island gives Maurice another opportunity to prove himself, this time by stepping into the working world while pretending to be much older than he really is.
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A Boy Who Lusts for Freedom
How Far Would He Go to Prove He Was Grown?
Brooklyn taught Maurice to watch the street, chase money, and never look scared.
He was hustling before most kids understood what earning meant.
At Coney Island, one lie about his age gives him a place in the working world.
Then an older friend opens the door to something far more dangerous.
A Boy Who Lusts for Freedom: A True Brooklyn Story
A screenplay by Maurice Hopkins.
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Episodes That You Will Find Inside The Book
Follow Maurice from a fiercely independent Brooklyn childhood into a world where family conflict, street influence, money, work, and the hunger for freedom push him toward adulthood far earlier than most children.
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Episode 1
THE STREETS WERE MY FATHER
Maurice begins earning money while still a small child, becoming a lookout for Old Head and finding additional ways to make money at Pathmark. His confidence grows alongside school trouble, parental discipline, and his increasing belief that money can give him control over his own life.View Details
Episode 2
THE HOUSE DIVIDES
Maurice's parents' relationship reaches a breaking point and the household divides. Maurice and Marvin remain with their father while their sisters go with their mother. Maurice continues resisting rules involving school, curfew, Kingdom Hall, and respect, even as his attachment to his family remains impossible to ignore.View Details
Episode 3
SEVENTEEN ON PAPER
Maurice must prove that his claimed Coney Island job is real when Pops accompanies him to meet Mark. Maurice asks his father not to expose his actual age and continues claiming that he is seventeen. A real opportunity finally appears, but taking it means maintaining a lie that eventually follows him onto his paperwork.View Details
Episode 4
THE RIDES
Coney Island gives Maurice something he has been chasing for years: work, money, responsibility, and a place where people judge him largely by what he can do. Under Mark's supervision, Maurice works hard and takes pride in being useful. At the same time, marijuana, late nights, and his growing friendship with Skip begin complicating the freedom he believes he has found.View Details
Episode 5
YOUNG BLOOD
Skip becomes increasingly familiar to Maurice and draws him beyond their usual interactions around Coney Island. What begins as another ride away from rules and curfews develops into a proposition involving the theft of a truck loaded with stuffed animals. Maurice's eagerness to prove that he belongs in an adult world places him inside a situation far more serious than the confidence he brings to it.View Details
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A TRUE BROOKLYN STORY
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A Boy Who Lusts for Freedom
Step into Maurice Hopkins’s raw Brooklyn story, a childhood shaped by the streets, family struggles, money, survival, work, and an overwhelming desire to live life on his own terms.
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