Night Heat feature
#Drama
By
Henry
Myers
A Vietnam veteran, frustrated and depressed over a broken marriage and dead-end life, opens an after hours club, only to discover greed, jealousy, and ultimately betrayal threaten to destroy it when he crosses paths with a notorious strip club impresario determined to cash in on his success.
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118 pages |
4 years ago
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What happens when your life is at a standstill, and desperate for a change means any chance to break free from your past sounds like a good idea?
Nicky Johns wakes up every morning feeling like his life is shit. He hates his dead end job driving a beer delivery truck, misses his estranged wife and kids, and lives with his alcoholic father. Desperate to move on with his life and leave his past behind, his chance comes when he rents a building and turns it into an after-hours club he hopes will help him forget his past, and give him a shot at the new life he desperately craves and needs.
Growing up in the streets and his aunt’s restaurant, the nightlife is the only thing Nicky was ever was good at. Could his return to his past be the answer to his problems, or lead to his demise for once and for all? Together with co-worker and pal, Bennie Simms, he embarks on a dangerous journey of sex, drugs, and violence, climaxing in his world turned upside down and out of control, forcing him to find out who he really is the hard way, at a cost even too high for him to pay.
“Night Heat “ is a an emotionally intense, character-driven urban drama about loss and ultimately redemption, taking that one last shot at life, and rolling the dice-- win or lose. Written as a quintessential urban tale, it is reminiscent of films as diverse as New Jack City, Studio 54, and Carlito’s Way, and is based on my personal experiences owning an after-hours clubs for nearly ten years.
Nicky Johns wakes up every morning feeling like his life is shit. He hates his dead end job driving a beer delivery truck, misses his estranged wife and kids, and lives with his alcoholic father. Desperate to move on with his life and leave his past behind, his chance comes when he rents a building and turns it into an after-hours club he hopes will help him forget his past, and give him a shot at the new life he desperately craves and needs.
Growing up in the streets and his aunt’s restaurant, the nightlife is the only thing Nicky was ever was good at. Could his return to his past be the answer to his problems, or lead to his demise for once and for all? Together with co-worker and pal, Bennie Simms, he embarks on a dangerous journey of sex, drugs, and violence, climaxing in his world turned upside down and out of control, forcing him to find out who he really is the hard way, at a cost even too high for him to pay.
“Night Heat “ is a an emotionally intense, character-driven urban drama about loss and ultimately redemption, taking that one last shot at life, and rolling the dice-- win or lose. Written as a quintessential urban tale, it is reminiscent of films as diverse as New Jack City, Studio 54, and Carlito’s Way, and is based on my personal experiences owning an after-hours clubs for nearly ten years.
