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POTHOLES

POTHOLES
By Jonathan R. Holeton

GENRE: Comedy
LOGLINE:

A friend in need is a friend indeed… a friend with magic space weed is better.

SYNOPSIS:

Ben and Alice’s lives have pot holes. Their roads merge through their wheel-chair bound friend Bonnie and their love of weed.

They bond because of Pot but Alice really takes him as a brother and becomes very protective of him. She knows that Ben is kind and trusting to the point of Naïve and she looks out for him. They hang out a lot together, going to the lake with Alice and her common law husband Kyle and the rest of her family. One of which is her brother Charlie who is a real burn out and who is paranoid about Chinese food and its corruptive influence on western society. He also has the ability to get them stuck in situations, like stranded on a raft on a lake.

Ben meets Alice’s pot dealer the Captain. He tells them his pot is magical space weed and uses 80s music to grow it. His weed is so good that Ben imagines wild things. Ben is always in good hands when he is with Alice but there comes a day when he decides to go partying with some friends and in the course of a couple wild days he meets a bad guy named Hollywood.

Lucky things happen for Ben and Alice, he wins $5,000 at the casino playing super 7 Blackjack. Hollywood and his cronie Cracker Jack are blown away by how lucky Ben is, so they invite him and his friends to Hollywood’s Mansion.

Ben will soon find out the dark side of Hollywood. He accidentally tells Hollywood and Crackerjack about the Captain’s magic weed. He also gets in trouble when he ends up partying with some hookers, who steal Ben’s car and also steal Hollywood’s crack from Cracker Jack. This is when Ben really starts to hit potholes.

Ben doesn’t want Alice to know what he’s been up to but cuts it close when Cracker Jack tries to pull Ben out of his parked car at a convenience store with Alice. This is where Alice goes full on Alpha Female and beats the living crap out of Cracker Jack.

Hollywood and Cracker Jack end up stealing the Captain’s weed to wield it’s great power for themselves. It’s now at Hollywood’s Mansion.

Ben tells Alice and the Captain where Hollywood lives so they go there to steal it back. On their way there, Ben greens out from the weed and starts vomiting as he drives around a traffic circle. Police on bicycles see this and follow Ben. With the luck of the weed, the two bicycle police slip and fall from all the vomit on the road. The 3 stoners continue to Hollywood’s Mansion.

When they arrive at Hollywood’s house party, with the help of a bit of magic weed left, Captain and Alice invoke the power of the 80s by using an 80s boombox to play the 80s Bird Dance song to distract everyone at the party. As the Captain says…”Nobody can resist the bird dance.” Out of nowhere Bobcat Goldthwait comes out of the Mansion yelling “Now this is my kind of party!” With the bird dance song playing all of Hollywood’s people do the dance while the Captain and Alice steal back the magic weed that’s in Hollywood’s truck.

Ben sees his Psychiatrist who now realizes Ben doesn’t just have Bipolar but Congruent disorder aka Dual diagnosis - mental illness AND addiction. Ben goes to dual diagnosis treatment center and is told to stay away from his friends who do drugs. He is sad he can’t see his best friend Alice anymore, but decides to move back to his hometown of St.Paul, Alberta to recover. He really likes his Counsellor Gary and listens to his advice to stay away from old drug friends.

Ben stays sober by learning his passion for filmmaking on Youtube and becomes a Youtuber/Director. He also writes down his adventures with Alice, the Captain and Hollywood as a movie script.

Ben gets a bit of a break and ends up acting in a tv show, so he has to go back to his slippery place Edmonton.

Hollywood and Cracker Jack see the show Ben acted in on TV. They see his full name in the credits, “Ben Holdman” and decide to pay him a little visit in St.Paul.

Ben sees outside his window that Hollywood and Cracker Jack are in his Neighborhood, they bought the house across the street from him and wait for night to come to kill him. Ben is scared, the first person he calls is Alice. She immediately rounds up her friends to come to Ben’s rescue. Her boss (Harry) at the strip bar she works at also just happens to be a badass biker and he answers her call with a few of his buddies. They head out to St. Paul in a convoy with Alice flooring it all the way.

They arrive just in time to save Ben from Hollywood who has taken Ben from his home and is now ready to delete him in a very painful way...with a baseball bat. Instead, Hollywood is taken away by Harry and the bikers… never to be heard of again.

Come join us in this epic stoner adventure...You be the stoner, we'll be your Buds, together we'll have a hoot. In THC surround sound.

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