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CHARACTER FLAW
By Peter Jones

GENRE: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
LOGLINE: Middle-aged loser realizes he is a fictional TV character when the serious actor who plays him gets lost in the pointless role.

SYNOPSIS:

Kenny Vandershell has not changed much since high school. He still hangs out with the same friends, does the same drugs, listens to the same hard rock music and hopelessly pursues the same perpetually immature relationships with women – assuming such weekly misadventures as “hoggin’ night” can be classified as “relationships.” For decades, Kenny and three like-minded friends have met regularly for an array of brainless debauchery. But as Kenny pushes into his late 40s, he becomes increasingly unstable and puzzled by his surroundings. Inexplicable sounds of otherworldly laughter, incongruent life events and strange visions seem to mock his pointless existence as the middle-aged teenager begins to question his life choices … or lack thereof. Meanwhile, in another world called Hollywood, Sandy Evans has problems of his own. Unlike Kenny, Sandy has relentlessly pursued his career ambitions. But in doing so, the actor has grown distant from his devoted fiancée and young son. His new part on an offbeat cable sitcom may be just the break he needs, but the self-styled Method thespian has taken the half-baked role – as Kenny – a little too seriously for his own good. One day, Kenny and Sandy meet, sort of. Is Kenny in the midst of an existential crisis, or is he a work of television fiction, the product of Sandy’s obsessive need to bring his shiftless character to life? Or has the emotionally distant actor simply taken a plunge too far into mental illness? As Kenny and Sandy slowly come to terms with their differently troubled lives, will one give way to the other, or can they meet in the middle?

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