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A struggling actor running a makeshift self-tape studio in his San Fernando Valley apartment grows increasingly disillusioned as a wide range of actors flow in and out, and lazy contemporaries continue to get opportunities that elude him.
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Nick Samson, Jonathan Dylan King, Solomon Astley, Sean Michael Conway, Tyler Rainey, Chevy Knight, Olivia Lee, David Fumero
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