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..
An unconventional therapist who finds he better understands his patients while tripping on nutmeg must now diagnose and cure an apocalyptic disorder known as metapsychosis, as his increasingly psychedelic journey makes it difficult to discern the real from the unreal.
A now high school graduate wants to make something of himself in the world and it's going to take more than his small group of friends to get the support he needs.
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