FIGHT OR FLIGHT is the story of a mother and daughter with a dysfunctional relationship who try to mend fences while taking a trip from Philadelphia to Los Angeles on New Year's Eve. When a huge snowstorm derails their original travel plans, the women must endure an unrelenting set of comedic obstacles to get to their final destination, with their wits and their frayed relationship in tact.

SYNOPSIS:

In FIGHT OR FLIGHT, a mother, Audrey (late 40s), and a daughter, Elizabeth (mid-20s) make plans to travel to Los Angeles to celebrate New Year's Eve. On the surface, the trip is designed for the women to bond and to begin repairing a frayed relationship that started when Elizabeth was young. But, the reasons for the women are far from "surface".

Audrey was once a popular actress. She starred in a hit TV show and in a string of bad movies in the 80s. Because of her fame, Audrey became a "wild child", boozing and drugging and becoming a tabloid hit. Because of this behavior, the roles dried up, and left her star fading into obscurity. Now, after getting her life in order, she is looking to make a comeback, and that starts with an important event that she needs to be at in Los Angeles.

Elizabeth has always weathered the brunt of her mother's bad behavior. Throughout her childhood, Elizabeth was embarrassed, neglected and pushed out by her mother's fame. It drove a wedge between them. As a result, Elizabeth became reserved and structured, everything her mother wasn't. Elizabeth needs to go to L.A. because she has found love online and she wants to meet her boyfriend, Cameron, for the very first time. When Audrey offers her the chance to go with her on the trip, she jumps at the chance.

But getting to Los Angeles is going to be a BIG challenge. A snowstorm has rendered travel along the entire Eastern seaboard nearly impossible. When they get into a minor car accident on the way to the airport, it sets in motion a domino effect of traveling nightmares that they have to overcome. From catching a wrong train and being stranded in a bad neighborhood resulting in hitching a ride with convicted criminals (resulting in a police pursuit) to tagging along on a bus full of geriatric travelers who look like they escaped from the set of "The Walking Dead". The madness all culminates at 36,000 feet when Elizabeth, who's convinced the plane she is on is going down while she is in the bathroom, comes screaming out and tripping down the aisle with her pants down around her ankles.

The relationship is tested on a long layover in Denver, when the girls venture out of the airport and find a local drag queen/cowboy bar and commence to drinking. The drinking leads to a confrontation that has been years in the making. And some regretful words are said. When the girls pass out and come to, they realize they are now going to miss another flight. In the mad dash out, Elizabeth comes to the rescue of her mother in a pure act of heroism that makes Audrey think about how she has affected her daughter. Audrey opens up to her daughter and lets her true feelings out for the first time.

When they reach their destination, Elizabeth helps Audrey with her final shot to get her career going again, even though it was the thing that drove them apart in the first place. She helps her crash a Hollywood New Year's Eve party. Audrey's final grasp at getting back in fall short, but she is, now, no longer concerned with clinging on to "what was", but is looking forward to "what will be".