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GUYS TRIP
By Zachary Weber

GENRE: Drama, Comedy
LOGLINE:

When a bachelor in his late twenties desperately convinces his friends to embark on a trip to Las Vegas to renew the juvenility of their friendship, their ideals, relationships, and life get put on the line after careless decisions.

SYNOPSIS:

Three friends, Travis, Nick, and Eric, take a guys trip to Las Vegas to attend a music festival. Travis, who does relatively well financially, leads his buddies on that he's secured the tickets and will pay for the trip due to some recent success in his Real Estate career. Travis sees a world around him that moves too quick. The “settling” down aspecting of adulting isn’t something that interests him. In fact, the idea of his friends heading down that road, is torture for him. He believes by planning a trip to reflect and out-do the “good ‘old days days” will help remind them that a life of spontaneity and chaos, is a life lived right.

On the road, Eric and Nick learn that he doesn't have the tickets and needs to pick them up, so they stop on the way to a trailer park where the sellers are located. They hurry out and kick dust in the trailer park after the deal goes south and they carry on to the Strip where they’ll do some gambling in the meantime.

Eric decides to buy Molly for the festival in hopes it will bring attention and popularity to them at the festival. He meets local drug dealer and mobster, Giorgio who schemes a plan to use Eric to his advantage while Eric didn’t have the money to pay for the Molly. Giorgio lends a bag to Eric that he must sell since Giorgio is short dealers after he whacked his main man. Travis meets a married woman named Sonya at the club who turns out to be the wife of the dangerous mobster himself, Giorgio. Meanwhile, Giorgio schemes a plan with the music festival creator, Raj, on his own creative way of getting his money back. Eric finds himself in a frenzy after he's confronted by Giorgio about the money. Full of fear, he spins his wheels trying to make the money he owes since he realizes selling drugs is hard if you don't know how.

After some success at the casino, Eric is happy with the fact he has money to get Giorgio off his back. However, on a ride to another casino they lose the money which is the catalyst to Travis and Eric’s rising tension turning to boiling point. Before they can resolve their issues, Giorgio and his men arrive at the hotel entrance and kidnap the three, taking them to his secluded warehouse. Giorgio’s motives are to gain control of the situation, while Travis believes they we’re kidnapped because of his actions with the killer’s wife. Eric believes they were kidnapped because he’d failed to pay Giorgio his money back in time. Meanwhile, Sonya, unhappy in her relationship, did what she felt was the only thing she could do to get out… become a snitch for the police. When Giorgio hears sirens, he packs the boys and his men into a hot pursuit with the police of the highway. The van is stopped a few miles down the highway via spike strips, taking all men in the van for questioning.

At the end, Travis experiences difficulty at the police station until the detective learns about Sonya and the kidnapping. They return to the hotel changed, worn out, and full of thoughts they aren’t exactly sure how to express. Ultimately, they realize this trip marks the end of their carefree youth, but the shared experience brings them closer together.

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