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Inspired by true events, SHIFTING GEARS, a family sports comedy set in the present-day South, is similar in tone to box office successes like WE BOUGHT A ZOO, UNCLE BUCK and SUMMER RENTAL. This family comedy features lead characters that learn true lessons in friendship, faith and the importance of family.

The screenplay was written by R. Keith Harris, who has won awards for a number of screenplays including Damascus Road, Harvest and GhostTown.

SYNOPSIS: TOM WILLIAMSON is a hard working manager at Q-Mart (A Wal-Mart type super store). He started out at Q-Mart in the stock room after high school and is now poised to receive a promotion to Southeastern Regional manager – Or so he thinks. Instead, he gets a huge surprise. Faced with few options due to his lack of education – Tom and his wife CAROL decide to start a “family business” and leave the grind of the city. They pack up their pensive teenager JEREMY and free-spirited ten-year-old STEPHY and move to Bainesville, NC where they take over a run down garage bequeathed to them by Tom’s estranged father CLEM. Clem was a brawler and small town dirt track racer. Clem won the garage from local rich boy, and town namesake, CONRAD BAINES in a race years before. Tom sinks his whole severance into the garage to get it up and running only to get hit with another surprise – His father strikes again from the grave - the title to the property is not clear and the garage is set to be sold at public auction. CONRAD BAINES has his eyes set on the property in the name of “economic development” – He wants to knock the garage down and build a Q-Mart. In a last ditch effort – Tom joins forces with Clem’s former teammate, “Dirty Harry” Hawkins, and enters the Dirt Track Grand National in order to win the money needed to save the garage and his family from ruin.