Years after a childhood incident at a theme park separated them, a neurotic young man must escape a literal shotgun wedding to reunite with his lost true love.
In 1990 rural Ohio, lovelorn roller-coaster attendant Mickey Dourke is still pining for the girl he nearly died for at Happy Acres Amusement Park four years earlier—until his bully brother (now his boss) goads him into one disastrous date with foul-mouthed, secretly pregnant Brenda Lumpkins. When Brenda’s violent family shows up hunting a groom, Mickey suddenly stars in a real-life shotgun wedding… right as his long-lost sweetheart returns to the park as the star of the daily “Shotgun Wedding” midway show..
When a mob boss uses dangerous methods to fix horse races on Derby Day, a corny joke telling handicapper, executing his own safe cheating scheme, battles to turn some asinine cheats against the mob enforcer before the horses he loves are hurt.
when a young woman dons a dramatic disguise to test her boyfriends wandering eye, she inadvertently unlocks an alternate persona of her own that leads to startling realizations about who she is, what she wants, and what really matters.
On the verge of breaking a story that could take down a powerful, but scandalous Hollywood producer, an ambitious Mexican-American journalist crosses paths with a blacklisted writer looking to revive his floundering career.
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