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Synopsis
Nick Copeland is an ad man. Correction: was an ad man. He's been living the pretty-good life, but somewhere under the mountain of bills is buried whatever happiness he had. Desperate, Nick looks for work at a job fair, but instead reconnects with an old college friend who's in it even deeper. Rob Johnson has already lost his wife and a high-paying position in a Manhattan law firm. He's the rock bottom Nick could be, and now with Nick as his mirror, Rob realizes how low he's sunk. To dig themselves out of this hole, they must also dig up two airtight jars of high-grade heroin long buried under their old college football field and figure out how to make a quick sale. Tarantino meets Mamet in this white-knuckle modern-day morality tale.
Synopsis
Nick Copeland has lost his mind only twice in his forty-eight years--once in college on a bad acid trip, and once at this very moment, as the mountain of bills he's been hiding from his family finally topples. But Nick's chance meeting with an old friend, Rob Johnson, pulls on the memory wires. Rob--who's already lost his wife and job--seems resigned to a life of basic cable and Chinese takeout. Suddenly, the answer to their problems arrives: two airtight jars of high-grade heroin they'd buried under the football field of their old college campus.
Returning to the scene of the crime-that-never-happened seems like a cinch--that is, until Nick takes a trip down Memory Lane and a sharp right turn on Law Enforcement Drive. This is not the beads-and-bellbottoms of their youths, but maybe the Stones were right, anyway: you can't always get what you want.
Tarantino meets Mamet in this action-packed trip from the prolific literary novelist J.P. Smith.