Proof of concept included.
Set largely in a junkyard, this limited location/cast crime buddy-comedy is from the producer/writer/director of 'Boardwalk Winter' released in 2025 and 'Ice Bros,' expected next year. Both previous films are comedies featuring SNL legend, Victoria Jackson.
'Getting Frisky' combines elements of 'Dumb and Dumber' and 'Goodfellas' with the vibe of 'The Nice Guys.'
Synopsis:
Dexter and Jake are ambitious best friends who are disappointed to have languished in the lower levels of their crime syndicate for too long. In order to impress their boss to get promoted, they conspire to eliminate a rival hitman known only as Frisky, who has never been seen or identified, yet has been troubling the syndicate for years. To accomplish this, they track down one of the hitman's accomplices, who may be the only one who knows who the infamous killer is. They capture the accomplice and tie him up in a remote junkyard, hoping to pressure him into luring Frisky into their trap. To complicate the plan, they also have to babysit Dexter's teenage niece, Lilly, while she's suspended from school.
The two friends struggle to put the accomplice under any amount of serious duress, as they have never tortured or even interrogated someone before. Lilly belittles the guys while offering to help, thinking she's tougher than them. Motivated by shame, the guys eventually succeed in convincing the accomplice to call Frisky and invite him to the junkyard for an important meeting. The guys do their best to set Frisky and his accomplice up to be killed by developing a deadly trap for his arrival. They unwittingly bond with the accomplice and get Lilly far too involved, compromising their resolve to follow through with the plan.
Frisky arrives alone but is suspicious of the plot, resulting in a standoff with Dexter and Jake. They attempt to reason and negotiate while staying out of view of each other, as Frisky greatly values his secrecy. They eventually agree to a face-to-face meeting and immediately recognize each other as high-school classmates. They make a deal to lure the guys' boss in for Frisky to assassinate, with the intention of replacing their boss with Dexter...or maybe Jake? It all gets very contentious and confusing for men of very little brains. Frisky recognizes that Dexter and Jake just aren't cut out to be mobsters and offers to set them up with well-paying regular jobs with his rich cousin. The two take the deal...while still delivering their boss to Frisky...cuz he's a pretty bad dude after all.