Genre: Drama/Thriller
Director: Alex Conn
Writer: Alex Conn
Cast: Emile Hirsch, Will Poulter, Allison Williams, RJ Cyler, Kristin Davis, Alex Conn (cameo)
Plot: Chris (Will Poulter) is on Tinder and he is swiping left and right trying to find love. Chris goes to see his parents and they ask about his writing and his love life and he responds unenthusiastically. He says that his poetry book has sold less than a 100 copies. He works at a movie theater in Brooklyn. At a movie he meets a young indie filmmaker named Travis (Emile Hirsch) who is poor but is an accomplished independent filmmaker. Travis and Chris exchange numbers.
Chris then starts becoming fast friends with Travis and Travis starts bringing Chris under his wing. Travis then introduces Chris to his girlfriend Juliet (Allison Williams). Juliet explains how she fell in love with Chris after seeing his first film. She was just in college and she admired how he made a film on a low budget and it was powerful for her and her dad was addicted to drugs at the time and her mom and he saved her . Travis explains about how making art can get him a girlfriend because of that story. Juliet laughs uncomfortably. They go to a nice restaurant and they take a selfie. Chris sends a picture to his mom (Kristin Davis) and she's happy he has friends. Chris has an instant crush on Juliet. Chris then talks to Travis almost every day and Travis invites Chris to work on one of his movie sets which is very DIY and only has three other people on it. It is revealed that Travis isn’t just an indie filmmaker but a poet and novelist. Travis hands his poetry book to Chris. Chris thinks it’s good.
Chris's friend Ben (RJ Cyler) who lives in Queens hangs out with Chris after Chris’s shift at the movie theater. Ben has read Travis”s work and thinks it’s awful and thinks Travis is just full of himself and Chris says that Travis isn’t bad. The next day Juliet then invites Chris over to his house and Juliet slowly seduces Chris and they both have sex. Juliet promises to never tell Travis and Chris promises to do the same. Chris then calls his mom and informs her about the fact that he had sex with a woman with a boyfriend and she guesses it’s Travis”s girlfriend Juliet who she thought was pretty. His mom says that that girl is bad for him even if she’s a good person because even if she breaks up with Travis. Travis will badmouth Chris.
It is New Years Eve and Chris is very happy and is waiting for his shift at the movie theater to end and looks at Travis’s Twitter and Travis is saying things about how his movies are the best films of the decade so far. There is a New Years Eve party at Travis’s apartment and Chris brings a joint and then scolds him for smoking marijuana saying that he’s straight edge. Juliet then comes back after doing her makeup and hugs Chris. They then talk about movies and John just talks about how lonely is it romantically and Juliet then says he’s cute and he shouldn’t worry about dating and Travis looks at Juliet with anger. Travis then shows Chris around the apartment and Chris notices his gun and Travis says that that’s how he sticks it to his liberal neighbors. He and Travis then just hang out and Chris then sleeps over and then he goes home. Chris then calls his friend Ben about the gun and he is creeped out too.
Travis then invites Chris to a vegan restaurant and Travis says that he knows that there is an attraction between Chris and Juliet. Travis then threatens him tho and says something bad will happen if he goes on the attraction. Chris then goes in his room and looks up on the sky. Chris gets a text from Juliet informing him that Travis is going away to meet with some friends. Chris and Juliet have very intense sexual intercourse. They have a really great time. They go to the movies and Chris helps Juliet write her screenplay. Travis and Juliet then have an intense phone conversation and Travis reminds her that she is so lucky to be dating an interesting indie filmmaker and not her previous boyfriend who was a nerdy guy from her home state.
At the movie theater it is revealed Juliet is starting to work at the movie theater. Juliet every break goes down on Chris.
The next week it is revealed that Travis put a security camera in his apartment which told him about all the sex and cheating. At the same time Chris is writing a new film and once he finishes it it immediately gets funding which is something Travis has never gotten. Chris calls Travis and Travis says don't trust Hollywood and that they screw over creative people and they are horrible. Even when Chris says it's an independent financier he says they are still horrible. Travis says that he had a film he tried to get financed through that system and he says it's soul crushing.
Chris in the morning calls his financiers and he talks about the script and he off hand mentions Travis and the financier says that Travis is a joke. Everyone saw his debut movie which sucked and he sent it around to financiers and everyone hated it and his next film sucked even more. When Chris says that Travis is a friend they tell him he's a joke and not a good influence.
Travis has dinner with Chris and threatens that their friendship is over if he has sex with Juliet again. Chris also starts filming his movie. It has a big crew and it goes well and there is a montage of the shoot.
Travis at the same time writes a screenplay and films it for a much lower budget then Chris. The film is a romance comedy drama set in one location. They are a lot of pretty girls but not a lot of plot.
While he is filming Chris”s relationship with Travis starts getting worse and worse. But he starts getting a better relationship with Juliet as they text every night and Chris sends her set photos.
Both films are eventually and Chris informs Travis that his film got into Sundance and that upsets Travis.
A few days later Chris is then invited to Travis's apartment and he is castrated as punishment for having sex and Chris fights against it and as he is being castrated he says that everyone in the industry thinks Travis is a joke and Travis then pulls out his gun and shoots him. Juliet then comes in and breaks up with Travis and then Juliet sees Chris's dead body and screams and then Travis shoots Juliet.
1 year and a half later Travis goes to an indie film premiere of his low budget film which is a romance film about a man with his ex girlfriend who commits suicide. He says it’s about how his girlfriend Juliet commits suicide. He then meets another filmmaker James (Alex Conn) who is at his premiere and they meet and talk similar to the way Travis and Chris met.
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