Motel. Pool.
by Kim Fielding
In the mid-1950s, Jack
Dayton flees his working-class prospects in Omaha and heads to
Hollywood, convinced he’ll be the next James Dean. But sleazy casting
couches don't earn him stardom, and despair leads to a series of poor
decisions that ultimately find him at a cheap motel off Route 66,
lifeless at the bottom of the pool. Sixty years later, Tag
Manning, feeling hopeless and empty, flees his most recent relationship
mistake and takes to the open road. On a roundabout route to Las Vegas,
he pulls over to rest at an isolated spot on Route 66. There’s no longer
a motel or pool, but when Tag resumes his journey to Vegas, he finds
he’s transporting a hitchhiking ghost. Jack and Tag come to find
much-needed friends in each other, but one man is a phantom and the
other is strangely cursed. Time is running out for each of them, and
they must face the fact that a future together may not only be a
gamble... it may not be in the cards.
Dayton flees his working-class prospects in Omaha and heads to
Hollywood, convinced he’ll be the next James Dean. But sleazy casting
couches don't earn him stardom, and despair leads to a series of poor
decisions that ultimately find him at a cheap motel off Route 66,
lifeless at the bottom of the pool. Sixty years later, Tag
Manning, feeling hopeless and empty, flees his most recent relationship
mistake and takes to the open road. On a roundabout route to Las Vegas,
he pulls over to rest at an isolated spot on Route 66. There’s no longer
a motel or pool, but when Tag resumes his journey to Vegas, he finds
he’s transporting a hitchhiking ghost. Jack and Tag come to find
much-needed friends in each other, but one man is a phantom and the
other is strangely cursed. Time is running out for each of them, and
they must face the fact that a future together may not only be a
gamble... it may not be in the cards.