THE BALLAD OF BENNY TRUEBLOOD
Benny Trueblood is on something of a personal quest to gain the love and respect of his dying father.
Benny is a ‘B list’ LA Film Producer who’s spent his 15 minutes of fame (in the 1990’s) making zombie movies. Nowadays, Hollywood’s movers & shakers regard him as a ‘washed-up Walter Mitty-like character’...’A legend in his own lunchtime!’. Nevertheless, He is busy overseeing his long promised comeback film - A Heist movie.
Unfortunately for Benny; the financial backers of his film - A Russian crime syndicate - are demanding the immediate return of their 11 million dollar investment, or castration is on the cards; And this despite his pleas that he’s ‘due an Oscar’. To make matters worse, Benny’s association with the mobsters has brought him to the attention of the FBI, and his new girlfriend is not what she seems. Unbeknown to Benny, he’s been snared in a ‘honeytrap’, by an undercover FBI agent assigned to collect ‘intel’ on the crime syndicate.
Eventually taken and held hostage by the Russian mobsters, Benny narrowly preserves his genitalia by proposing a daring plan to rob the ‘real’ bank featured in his movie.
With dreams of an Oscar Award, a yearning for paternal love, psychotic mobsters and a looming 25 year stretch in a Federal Penitentiary, all very much in the mix - What could
possibly go wrong?