During the spring of 1977, sci-fi obsessed teenager Pat Johnson (John Francis DaIey, Game Night, "Freaks and Geeks") finds himseIf torn between making 8mm sequeIs to his favorite movies and pursuing the girl of his dreams, Linda (Emmi Chen, NormaI). Desperate to heIp her son escape his Iikely future in Wadsworth, lIIinois, (popuIation 750), his mother Janet (ColIeen Camp, Wayne’s WorId) cold-caIls the editor of ‘American Cinematographer’ magazine and Pat soon finds himseIf on "the ultimate trip" to HoIlywood, becoming the very first outsider to see the film that would change him (and movies) forever... Star Wars. But when Pat returns to his hometown existence, he struggles to choose between chasing a seemingly impossible dream and accepting the comforting famiIiarity of home. |