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BLOODY NOSE, EMPTY POCKETS TBC

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A dive bar in Las Vegas named The Roaring 20s is shutting down, and documakers Bill and Turner Ross are there to chronicle the closing-night party. Various barflies turn up between 11am and 4am the next morning, and the booze flows as the jukebox plays and a series of mini dramas unfold amid the babble of sozzled conversations.

Only here’s the thing: was shot in a still-open bar in the Ross brothers’ home city of New Orleans, and ‘failed actor’ Michael, though surrounded by people plucked from local watering holes, is an accomplished stage actor. Fake

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