At The Maple Grove (2014)
A renowned night club preps a final show, a young director suffers a health scare and creativity bleeds into life.
Genre : Drama, Music, Crime
Runtime : 1H 50M
Director : Christopher Zatta
Synopsis
Driven by a desire to live forever through cinema, aspiring filmmaker Nathaniel Heaton sets out to fuse his life into the narrative of a movie in this film-within-a-film. Both a dreamer and a romantic, Heaton escapes his estranged relationships, professional failures, and concerns of mortality by retreating more and more into the world of the movie that exists in his imagination... a world where gangsters close in and a struggling old nightclub prepares for what may be its final show.
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