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..
After being dumped by his girlfriend, a down-on-his-luck alcoholic moves into an unusually affordable NYC apartment only to find out that the previous tenant isn't quite ready to leave – despite dying three years ago.
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