HOA
A Summary
Logline: A Tour De Force split occurs among residents of a high-end neighborhood occurs when a renegade HOA takes her revenge agenda just a little too far.
In an immaculate, oak-lined enclave where the grass is measured and the smiles are practiced, the residents of Briar Hollow pride themselves on order—until order gets personal.
When longtime HOA president Darlene Pritchard—a woman known for handwritten violation notices and weaponized politeness—is quietly voted out after one too many “aesthetic overreaches,” the neighborhood expects a bloodless transition. What they get instead is a campaign.
At first, it’s petty: trash cans mysteriously rolled inches out of compliance, anonymous complaints filed at 3:17 a.m., prized rose bushes trimmed just a little too aggressively. But the infractions escalate into something more deliberate, more psychological. Security systems glitch. Property lines shift—legally, somehow. Long-buried neighbor disputes resurface with documentation no one remembers creating.
As suspicion fractures the community into paranoid factions—new money vs. old guard, rule-followers vs. quiet rebels—Darlene watches from just outside the gates, smiling like nothing’s wrong. Because technically, nothing is. Every act is within the bylaws. Every punishment is justified… on paper.
A handful of uneasy allies forms—a former “tits n ass” B movie producer, a happily retired, the innocuous neighborhood sex offender, an overworked real estate agent desperate to protect home values, a gritty war veteran who begins to question the legality of everything, and a younger couple who never wanted HOA life in the first place. Together, they start to realize the truth: Darlene didn’t break the system.
She perfected it.
What begins as suburban satire tightens into a slow-burn psychological siege, where the real threat isn’t one woman’s vendetta—but a neighborhood that finally has to confront how much control it was willing to hand over in the first place. And how far it’s willing to go to take it back.