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LOSERS IN LA LA LAND
Here’s to the losers who made the winners look good.
Marty Drake is a 43-year-old man with a flask of Jim Beam, a dead-end English teaching job in Germany, and a dream he refuses to bury. Years earlier, he almost made it partnering with Mitch McCoy, a charismatic, maddening, visionary filmmaker operating out of Venice Beach coffeehouses and alleyways, to produce an independent film in Hollywood
What followed was two men against the world: guerrilla shoots on illegal locations, a mysteriously vanishing millionaire investor, a full cast of SAG actors, a film that somehow got made — and a friendship that burned spectacularly on the way down.
Told with sharp wit and unflinching honesty, Losers in La La Land is for every person who dared to reach for the golden ring on the merry-go-round and felt it slip right through their fingers. It’s funny. It’s raw. And it’s more true than most Hollywood stories ever dare to be.
