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WHO WE ARE

WHO WE ARE
By Adam Reed

GENRE: Comedy, Drama
LOGLINE:

With the help of her colorful and loyal friends, a rebellious teenage girl, that is tired of being pushed around, goes on the road trip of a lifetime to find her dad that, she was lead to believe, died long ago

SYNOPSIS:

In this coming-of-age, Judd Apatow-type dramedy that mixes heart-ripping drama with laugh out loud comedy... and just a dash of dick jokes, we follow Anna Smith, a high school junior that is tired of being walked all over. At school, her and her friends (Josh, Janis, Hunter, and Jacob) are tortured with cruel practical jokes. At home-fucking-sweet-home, Anna is stuck with an abusive step dad, Alan, and a mom that has given up on life. Anna longs for a better life, filled with a sense of belonging and love, but everything around her seems to point to that as being nothing but a fairy tale.

After getting arrested for a revenge prank-gone-wrong, Anna gets into a fight with her stepfather, Alan, who spitefully reveals that Anna’s biological dad didn’t die from “ass cancer” before she was born, but is actually a has-been athlete from Alaska. She was a high school mistake that should have been aborted. Before Anna can get any real answers from her mom, her mom has an aneurysm and dies. Anna is left with no other choice but to steal her asshole stepfather’s Corvette and drive across the country, to Anchorage, Alaska, to find the dad that she never knew she had. Easy, right?

Anna’s colorful and loyal friends join her on the zany road trip that leads them to being robbed by a drug-loving sex cult, hitchhiking, stealing food and gas to get by, being snuck across the border by a golden-hearted widower, tripping balls on LSD-laced magic mushrooms, and streaking into a strip club and burger joint.

This last endeavor lands everyone, but Anna, in jail. Anna steps up and, through a series of mishaps that includes lighting a police car on fire, she manages to break them out so they can continue their journey. That night, however, her best friend, Josh, confesses his love for her. Afraid to lose her best friend, and struggling with what to do, Anna sneaks off, in the middle of the night, to finish the journey on her own.

Though hurt, Josh and the others continue on to Alaska anyways, refusing to abandon Anna in her time of need. Both parties successfully sneak into Alaska, only to discover that Anna’s real dad has actually passed away. Despite that loss, Anna meets her aunt Dottie and her taxidermist wife, and finally finds the home she always dreamed of. She also, now, realizes that her devoted friends were her true family all along, and if she wants to truly experience love, she is going to have to learn to trust in people. Just as everything seems perfect, Alan shows up, determined to drag Anna home. Having grown, Anna finally stands up to him, and with the help of her “family,” they send him on his way with a broken car, broken nose, and a battered ego. Anna stays in Alaska and her friends return home, each having grown from this outlandish experience.

Nathaniel Baker

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