Three childhood friends who grew up to become complete losers find themselves on an incredible journey. One that will help them discover their inner warrior and challenge their very will to live.

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Workin For A Livin

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Adventure

.Comedy

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Screenplay Status: Available

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Three childhood friends who grew up to become complete losers, find themselves on an incredible journey. One that will help them discover their inner warrior, and challenge their very will to live.

Synopsis

ACT I

MICHELLE BOWMAN, nicknamed MOOK, inherits a rundown old bar and restaurant from his parents, now called, Mook’s Bar & Grill. It's failing miserably and he is on the verge of having to close it for good. BUDDY FLUGGLE and SCOTTY BERKSHIRE are Mook’s only friends and they are also his roommates. While out and about one night, they come across Mercy, a mysterious gypsy woman who lives in the basement of an old run-down abandoned building and winds up becoming Scotty’s love interest. She gives them a psychic reading, telling Mook that the answer to his problems are in Los Angeles, California, and to go see a man named Samuel Schwartz. So, Mook, who is utterly desperate and has no other options, decides to take a cross-country road trip with Buddy and Scotty, and that's where the journey really begins. While the guys are gone, JOE JACK, their beer-drinking, weed-smoking pet Macaw Parrot, escapes from the apartment and takes on his own adventure, having one heck of a time getting high, drunk, and partying with hot college babes.

ACT II

The first string of bad luck starts when they are pulled over by a state trooper, who confiscates a pound of marijuana from them, but lets them go. That leads them to have to find more, so, Scotty suggests they go see his ex-stepfather who owns a weed farm deep in the Colorado mountains. Along the way, they wind up getting lost in the bluff of Atlanta where they encounter dwarf hookers, a homeless man who robs them, getting their car towed, and have to steal it back. Sometime later at a small town diner in Mesa Arizona where Mook, Buddy, and Scotty stop off to eat, Buddy finds himself banging the waitress Pamela, who just so happens to be a dwarf, in the diner bathroom.

ACT III

They arrive in Hollywood California and their first stop is The Hollywood Plateau Restaurant on Hollywood Boulevard, owned by Samuel Schwartz. The bartender provides them with Mr. Schwartz's home address, but only n one condition, that they are to perform a karaoke song on stage right then and there, so they do (POSSIBLE SONG OF CHOICE - SHANIA TWAIN, I FEEL LIKE A WOMEN) They are finally able to locate Samuel Schwartz, who invites them to dinner, and it is then that Mook’s is told the truth, that Samuel Schwartz, who is filthy rich, and was his real father, then dies of a heart attack while taking a dump. Believing that they have failed, Mook and his friends head back home, only to be awakened the next morning by the lawyer who is handling his father’s last will and testament, giving Mook the good news that his father has left him his entire estate, worth over five hundred million dollars. After making some very important donations in his hometown, Mook remodels his restaurant, gives Scotty and Buddy some money, and falls in love with the lady who he has hired to decorate his restaurant. Pamala and Mercy both show up at Mook’s Bar & Grill and greet their man. Pamala is are pregnant.

The movie ends with a panning-out shot of the restaurant's front door with a look inside, then a slideshow of Photos of the guys, and Joe Jack, with their families, vacation wedding birthdays, and such.