Synopsis
The feature directorial debut of comedian Conner O’Malley and director/editor Danny Scharar is a riotously entertaining mockumentary — a 2009-set period satire comparable only to Conner’s previous YouTube oeuvre–but is also perhaps their most rigorous work yet. A cinema worker and rapper (O’Malley) dedicates himself to recording an album, passing the camera back and forth with fellow aspiring artists (played by Jack Bensinger and Eric Rahill) over the course of a long picaresque night. Written by leads O’Malley, Bensinger, and Rahill, and shot on a DV Handycam from the era, this fuzzy portrayal of after-hours suburban life captures both inescapable boredom as a catalyst for bad decisions, and an appreciation for life’s simplest pleasures.