A hapless junior employee mistakenly arranges for the company's Christmas party to take place in a strip club instead of a bar. Everyone has a great time, but the company is saddled with a huge bill, and they all get fired. Unable to dispute the company's reasons, they decide to get even with the club - by robbing it... Not great, but might work...

I like the idea of it being someone else who ran up the tab. The guy (I like to think he's a stuffy accountant who's just separated from his wife so decides to go to a strip club for some fun) got so drunk that some other dude took advantage of him and used his credit card to buy drinks and lap dances (and whatever else), running up the bill without him noticing. The accountant only discovers it when he finds a receipt where the scam artist mistakenly signed his own name and then scribbled it out and forged the accountant's signature. So the accountant vows to hunt him down. Could be a thriller. Could be a comedy. No idea if such an idea has enough meat to carry it through an entire film though.

Working title: The Honeytrap Guy gets plastered and works up an impossible bill at a club. Panics. Tries to cut a deal with the ex-stripper owner. She'll make him a deal all right. She runs the club as a way fund a half-way house for runaway girls and battered women. She'll cancel his bill, if he agrees to work off his tab helping out her operation. He has a wife and daughter at home he's neglecting while he pursues his fantasy life. He develops a crush on the owner... who is ultimately revealed to be lesbian and has no interest in him. In the course of his work he develops friendships with the other women in the halfway house and comes to see them as people... at which point he begins to recognize the indicators of how his daughter is at risk and he needs to be a better parent. In the meantime, as his relationships toward the women around him change, his wife takes advantage of the latitude to be more assertive and independent in her own life--which makes her more attractive to him. But at the end of Act II, he's completely infatuated with the club owner. He throws himself at her. She rejects him. Everything blows up. But he still has to work off the tab. (And he's been hiding the whole "tab affair" from his wife out of shame.) There may be a crisis with his teen daughter at the same time. His new friends help him put his life back together... Eventually he goes home to his wife and they make a fragile new beginning from their new perspectives. And he continues to volunteer after the tab is paid. It's Shall We Dance meets The Women on the 6th Floor, set against a Strip Club and Halfway House.

"One Way to Go" He's young, cute, cocky and foolish. An easy mark. A working stiff not getting anywhere fast. Fern, the club's owner is older and wiser and game to turn William's reckless night and subsequent debt into some fun for her and her circle of fun loving, beautiful, talented and very clever friends. She's ready to give up the business and this young man presents her with the opportunity to throw a fantastic "retirement party" for herself. She wagers double or nothing that he cannot earn $28,000 in a single evening relying on his own wits, wiles, talents, and her stock of Grey Goose, etc. He can use anything in the club - except the talent, though he can employ anyone else to work with him. Young William and Fern agree on the terms. A third person (a gentleman) is declared the moderator - the date is set. William has no way to pay this debt and so in truth he has nothing to lose and something to gain. He is filled with unwarranted self-assurance and the energy and brashness of youth - He is off and running, quite certain anyone can run a strip joint and fleece the guys who swing through its doors. Fun romp. William finds his passion. Fern finds her peace. Happy Ending.