Synopsis/Details
Joe Armstrong is a burned-out screenwriter and part-time pool cleaner whose Hollywood dreams are circling the drain. But one bizarre morning in Burbank, a TikToker in a Marilyn Monroe costume hijacks his day—and maybe his destiny.
Her name is Fawn Starr. She’s Gen Z, chaotic, and convinced Joe’s the writer who’ll make her famous. She dubs herself his muse, jumps into his truck, and sets off a chain reaction of total madness.
After a disastrous pitch meeting with a smarmy producer, Joe’s day spirals from bad to batshit. An aging scream queen with a Bloody Mary problem begs him to write her life story—then later accuses him of stealing her parrot and robbing her. Why? Because a guy in a Spider-Man suit (Fawn’s freeloading friend Mateo) crashes her house, steals her cash, and pins it all on Joe. A drug dealer dressed as Chewbacca wants Joe dead over missing coke. And Fawn? She’s trying to fund Joe’s nonexistent script by selling that coke to a porn producer named Raul.
By sundown, Joe’s been framed, dumped by his manager, shot at, accused of narcing—and somehow, finally, inspired. With help from a former flame turned cop, he might just turn the worst day of his life into the script of a lifetime... if it doesn’t kill him first.
“Last Chance Joe” is a wickedly funny underdog tale about second acts, Hollywood madness, and the unexpected muses that force us to write the truth—whether we’re ready or not. It’s “After Hours” meets “The Player” by way of “Pineapple Express.”
