Pitch and Moan

The worst movie pitch I can think of, right now.

Notes

Weekend at Finnegans

A teen sex romp shown in flashbacks, as friends gather at the wake of their friend, Finnegan.  They gather together in Finnegan’s house to reminisce about their shared past, how they started out as idealistic young punks in the mid to late 1980s, and through the ups and downs of society and the economy in the 90s at at the turn of the millennium, they’ve become disillusioned, some made rich by real estate derivatives, some poor by the tech bubble, and three out of work journalists and an actor forced to play father characters to actors his own age.  They spend the weekend drinking, settling old scores, hooking up, and remembering their nostalgia-baiting youthful shenanigans.

Meanwhile, during the wake, a glass of whiskey is spilled on Finnegan’s corpse, leading to his reanimation.  As it turns out, the whiskey was enchanted by Finnegans underlings, Shem and Shaun and Issy, who intend to turn Finnegan into a zombie to find the fortune he stole from a Norwegian captain and buried prior to his death.  So while all of Finnegans friends are busy having middle-aged sex and smoking much stronger weed than they were used to, Finnegan’s corpse is wandering around the estate, in sunglasses and a cheap windbreaker, with Shem and Shaun and Issy following close behind.

As it turns out, the fortune, rumored to be the jewels of King Mark, are actually just a series of letters full of bad puns and dense symbolism.  Obviously, it’s an adaptation of Joyce’s “Finnegans Wake”, but through a mixture of The Big Chill and Weekend at Bernie’s II remade for a modern audience, but with a modern soundtrack instead of a greatest hits compilation of songs the friends enjoyed back when they were young.