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Jonathan Ames, a young Brooklyn writer, is feeling lost. He's just gone through a painful break-up, thanks in part to his drinking, can't write his second novel, and carouses too much with his magazine editor. Rather than face reality, Jonathan turns instead to his fantasies — moonlighting as a private detective — because he wants to be a hero and a man of action.

A struggling Brooklyn novelist escapes his aimless existence by pretending to be a hard-boiled private investigator. This quirky satire finds humor in the gap between his drab reality and his cinematic delusions of grandeur.

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