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Synopsis: Four band members tell varying accounts of a night of sex, drugs, and murder before their first big show at a popular music festival.
 
IMDB:
5.4
R
Year:
2018
87 min
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[RATTLING]

[WHIZZING]

[RIPPING]

[FOOTSTEPS]

[CHIRPING]

[]

[CHIRPING]

["CASTLES" PLAYING]

You're all I'm not

You're all I see

You're the last thing

That breathe

Before I go to sleep

And I know you're simple

Underneath your skin

I pushed you out

I pulled you in

It's a catastrophe

So

BOTH:
Don't build

A castle for me

Because I can't be trusted

With anything

Don't make instructions

For me

Because I don't take

Lessons on anything

ALL:

Bada, da-da-da, da-da-da

Bada, da-da-da, da-da-da

Da-da

I give it back

But you want more

I call you up

To let you know

I'm face down

On the floor

Don't build a castle

For me

BOTH:
Because I can't be

trusted With anything

Don't make instructions

For me

BOTH:
Because I

don't take Lessons

On anything

Bada, da-da-da, da-da-da

ALL:
Bada, da-da-da

Da-da-da, da-da

Bada, da-da-da, da-da-da

Bada, da-da-da, da-da-da

Da-da

[MUSIC STOPS]

I wanna start off

by making it very clear

that I didn't know

any of these girls.

Any of them. I mean, I...

I met them last night,

but I'd never met them

before that.

[CHUCKLES]

I read in a crime novel once

that the best way

to question someone

is just to let them

keep talking.

That's what you're doing,

isn't it?

It's totally

what you're doing.

You know what the murder rate is

in Palm Springs, Jackie?

Why would I know that?

Five.

Five per...?

Year.

Wow.

That's really good.

That's like a week in L.A.

Wait,

you think this was a murder?

Tell me about, um...

- Starfoxy.

- [SIGHS]

Okay, uh...

We met in college.

Well, Byron, Travis

and myself did.

About a year ago,

we found Kirk on Craigslist.

I guess our manager thought

we needed to "add keys."

I don't know,

he thought the whole Green Day,

power-guitar thing

was getting stale...

Jump ahead. I don't need

the whole discography.

[CHUCKLES]

Like when we got

to the house?

Start in the van.

Okay.

Um...

We left L.A. around 9 a.m.

We took the 74 because we knew

everyone else would take the 10.

[VIVALDI'S "FOUR SEASONS"

PLAYING OVER SPEAKERS]

Okay. Seriously, Jackie,

what the f***

are we listening to?

Vivaldi.

Thanks, but I was being

rhetorical, as to imply

why the f*** are we listening

to this sh*t?

Because it's my turn and this

is what I wanna listen to.

You had your turn,

and you made us sit

through Imagine Dragons.

Made you?

Imagine Dragons are awesome.

Imagine Dragons is awesome.

See, Byron agrees.

No,

just correcting your grammar.

Imagine Dragons is terrible.

I thought their first album

was pretty good, so...

Okay, well, this is calming.

We could all use a little calm

right now.

I'll be calm when I'm dead.

This weekend

is about partying, okay?

Sh*t,

we should be pre-gaming now.

I wanted to talk to you guys

about that.

Sounds like

we're in trouble.

I think we can all agree

that this weekend

is very important for us.

So let's skip

the festival today

and just go straight

to the house.

Heh. F*** that.

We've got artists' passes,

- and we're gonna use 'em.

- I second that notion.

I third it.

Those badges cost 800 bucks.

That's more money than

I'm gonna spend on anything

in my entire life.

Okay, okay.

We go to the festival

for a couple of hours

and then we get to the house

before sundown.

Then we party.

No, and then we rehearse.

And call me crazy,

but maybe we actually

go to bed at a decent hour

and get some sleep.

Jackie,

if tomorrow goes well,

we're gonna blow up. Huh?

We're gonna have to get used

to playing to sold-out crowds

after all-night sex

and drug binges.

So we might as well start

to get used to it, huh?

See... I'm confused

because now you're both making

great arguments.

Kirk, it's one night.

Please? Just one night?

All right.

But only if you promise

to party twice as hard tomorrow.

Scout's honor.

[VIVALDI'S "FOUR SEASONS"

CONTINUES PLAYING, LOUDER]

[SONG ENDS;

ROCK MUSIC PLAYING OVER SPEAKER]

[PEOPLE CHATTERING]

I'm gonna check out New

Pollution. What about you guys?

- Wax Battleship.

- Invasion 101.

Every man for himself, then.

So...

Meet back here at 5.

I'll get the door.

[BAMTONE'S "BLACKEST SHEEP"

PLAYING]

Oh, yeah

I feel a surge

Rushing through

My veins

I wanna push

I wanna pull

I'm not giving in

I'm not giving in

I wanna push

I wanna pull

I'm not giving in

I'm the blackest sheep

In this earth

This blackest sheep is

Gonna get you, gonna get you

Gonna get you good

Oh, whoa-whoa, oh

Oh, whoa-whoa, oh

Oh, whoa-whoa, oh

TRAVIS:
Heh. This place looks

like my grandma's house.

BYRON:

Where'd you find it?

Airbnb.

The couple who owns it

lives on the East Coast

- and only uses it in winter.

- What's up with these gnomes?

[KIRK CHUCKLES]

We are gonna trash the sh*t

out of this place.

[]

Okay, I was wrong.

My grandma's

definitely not this cool.

KIRK:

Dude, check it out.

One of these Chinese

pinball machines.

Japanese.

Whatever.

Oh.

[CHUCKLES]

Yes.

- Could use some jizz.

- Gross.

How are we picking rooms?

First come, first serve,

like on Real World?

JACKIE:
Sure. But I found this

place, so I get the master.

[CHIRPING]

[DOG BARKING IN DISTANCE]

[DIRTY CHILDREN'S "I DID IT"

PLAYING]

There is an inch

Around my waist

From chocolate ice cream

I'm gonna hit the liquor store.

Want anything?

- Bourbon.

- Yes. Whiskey.

No. No booze.

Are you f***ing kidding me?

Are you f***ing kidding?

Do you not remember the

conversation we had in the van?

No partying.

Having a few beers

isn't "partying," Jackie.

It's a gateway.

[STRUMS GUITAR]

Oh, hey, grab a pizza.

[DOOR OPENS, CLOSES]

He's being such a dick

today.

Eh, give him a break.

He's just young and excited.

He's like a kid

on Christmas morning

that just wants

to have a couple beers.

Well...

we can't practice

without him, so...

I've been waiting

For a year

Waiting for my head

To clear...

That's a redo.

Because you hit the net.

- No, that's only on serves.

- No, it's a redo

- any time you hit the net.

- What?

It's only a redo on the serve.

That's the rule.

- In what rule book?

- All of them.

No.

KIRK:

We have arrived.

- Hey.

- Hey.

[KIRK SIGHS]

You didn't get pizza.

We'll order one.

[SIGHS]

Who are your friends, Kirk?

Uh... This is Maple,

Amber and Lucy.

- Lucy.

- [AMBER & LUCY LAUGH]

We met at the liquor store.

They're going

- to the festival too.

- No kidding.

Wow, 75,000 people in town

for the festival

and you bump

into three of them?

Heh. Right? Thank you so much

for inviting us to hang out.

We're staying in this sketchy

hotel in Cathedral City.

I'm pretty sure

there's a meth lab

- in the manager's office.

- MAPLE:
Heh.

Oh, my God, what's the address?

I'll make a run.

[ALL LAUGHING]

Hey, Kirk says you guys

are playing tomorrow?

That's so cool.

It is so cool.

Kirk, why don't I help you

take these things

into the kitchen? Okay?

- [CHUCKLES]

- LUCY:
Here you go.

- You guys have a hot tub?

- Yeah, I mean...

- It's very small. Over there.

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Todd Berger

Todd Berger (born April 5, 1979) is an American film director, screenwriter, actor, and novelist most prominently known for writing, directing, and appearing in the films It's a Disaster, Cover Versions, and The Scenesters. Berger has also appeared as an actor in films such as Southland Tales and on the television shows Parks and Recreation and Maron. Berger also wrote the novel Showdown City, published in 2016 by Diversion Books. Publishers Weekly gave the book a starred review and called it a "terrific debut novel." Berger is a graduate of The University of Texas at Austin, where he worked for the student television station KVR-TV and wrote and directed the nationally syndicated comedy show Campus Loop.Berger also wrote The Happytime Murders, an upcoming noir-comedy puppet film being directed by Brian Henson and starring Melissa McCarthy, and is currently writing a screenplay for a film adaptation of Where's Waldo. more…

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