Paul Schrader plays an aging alcoholic slowly drinking himself to death as penance for his former racism, so feeble that he can barely lift a glass of beer anymore.
Pete Davidson is a shiftless barfly who figures that Schrader is an easy mark to bum some free drinks off of.
Their relationship will change both of their lives forever.
[This idea literally came to me in a dream, so vivid and fully-formed that I didn’t even think to question filmmaker Paul Schrader’s presence as a lead actor. It was such a profoundly moving experience, in fact, that I was compelled to jot down the basic premise of the imaginary movie as soon as I woke up. The preceding text was copied and pasted directly from my Notes app, with only minor edits for clarity.]
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