The two men are different in their life choices but joined
by family ties and a close personal relationship. One of the
men is Eric Trules (director of the film), a published
poet and performance artist, and a professor at the University
of Southern California. He is the pride of his family. The other
man is his uncle, Harvey Rosenberg, a convicted criminal
and a member of organized crime, who has spent most of his life
in and out of prison for a variety of charges, from assault with
a deadly weapon to commercial burglary. He has been the shame
of, and a burden to, his family his entire life. Eric and Harvey
share a life of astonishingly similar parallels, along with a
willingness to flout normal societal conventions.
During the film, these similarities are revealed as Eric
is also charged with a felony for commercial burglary for his
extensive, illegal use of a Hollywood Studio's copying and printing
facility. At the same time Harvey, after getting out of prison
and going straight, has a life-changing spiritual awakening through
a 12-step recovery program. In a bizarre twist, however, Harvey
is suddenly indicted for the contract murder of actor Frank Christi,
a crime he allegedly committed in Los Angeles 10 years before.
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