"A modern urban fairy tale about Love, Sex, and DNA testing".

Bar-owner, Stewart advises his romantic younger brother, Ryan, to: “Trade up, always trade up” and he's good at following his own advice until he meets Nicole who leaves him literally climbing walls to woo her, but will it be enough to win her? 

SYNOPSIS:

TRADING UP

Genre: Romantic Comedy

A modern urban fairy tale about Love, Sex and DNA testing.

Synopsis

Two brothers, Stewart and Ryan, run The Back Room, an urban watering hole housed in an eclectically redecorated inner city building sandwiched between two parking lots, its entrance hidden up a back alley. Stewart trades in his women like used cars and advises his younger brother, Ryan, to: “Trade up, always trade up.”

Stewart has always been good at following his own advice - never hanging around for breakfast - until he meets Nicole. Before he knows it, he’s jumping out of airplanes, roller-blading out of control, and literally climbing walls to woo her. But will it be enough to win her?

Meanwhile, little brother Ryan is doing his best to follow big brother’s example, while secretly longing for romance and True Love, capital ‘T’, capital ‘L’. He’s doing just fine until Annie, a beguiling girl-next-door, takes him home to win a bet, and wins his heart while losing hers in the process.

Things get complicated when Tamara, the ex-Back Room bartender and ex-girlfriend of both brothers, shows up to reclaim her bartending job. Unbeknownst to our heroes, Tamara is pregnant – the result of a wild weekend of dual one-nighters - and one of them is the father. Now she is literally out for blood in her quest to determine who’s her baby daddy.

Cleo, an unpredictable psychic and self-proclaimed “alcoholic-in-training”, holds nightly court from her corner table, giving out skewed but accurate predictions with her tarot deck while freaking out Carl, the accident-prone waiter. Unsure of his own sexual orientation, Carl keeps asking everyone, "Do you think I'm gay?”, before giving in to advances from both sexes.

Will the brothers grow up fast enough to hold onto their new-found loves? Will Carl figure out whether he likes girls or boys – or both? Will Tamara’s blood-letting reveal the identity of her baby daddy?

An irreverent ensemble romantic comedy, Trading Up is an updated Friends meets Cheers with a twist of The Wedding Crashers and a dash of 40-Year-Old Virgin to keep it nice and spicy.

TRADING UP