Fun City Heist

Washed-up drummer Mo Melnick’s fifteen minutes of fame with the one-hit-wonder band “Sunshine Apocalypse” ended years ago. These days, he’s resigned to a dim future of renting out beach chairs and kicking sand. That is, until his childhood best friend—and former bandmate—Johnny Clay appears in Mo’s little beach paradise with an offer. He wants to reunite the band for one final show. The venue? FUN CITY, an all-cash amusement park where Sunshine Apocalypse got their start. Mo isn’t interested, especially when his ex-girlfriend drops off their teenage daughter Janice for a surprise summer stay. But then Mo finds out that Johnny is dying. He’s got Lou Gherig’s disease. And Mo realizes he can’t deprive his old friend of one last chance to make things right—to repair their friendship, and their band. To kick off the mortal coil by doing the only thing that ever made Johnny happy: giving an audience the ride of their lives.   

That is, until Mo learns the truth: Johnny plans to rob Fun City.

The “final show” was pretense all along. Johnny has been planning this heist since they were kids, working at Fun City part-time while nursing their fledgling musical ambitions. Mo knows the plan is crazy. He knows it has more holes than a golf course. But four middle-aged has-beens with nothing to lose have got one last chance to make something of their lives. And deep down, Mo knew he would never be happy renting out beach chairs until his sandy grave. Plus, his daughter Janice thinks robbing a theme park is a really cool idea, and, ironically, crime may be Mo’s one chance to connect with the daughter he’s never known. Mo will have to balance all that and more as his bungling rat-pack takes on the FUN CITY HEIST.