KC Munk is down on his luck, when his bookie shows up looking for $10,000, KC has nothing left to give so they take the only thing he has left – his best friend and 16-year-old dog, Buddha. In order to get Buddha back, KC has to return Los Angeles – and borrow money from the one guy he knows who has money – his old friend, the infamous film director Pete Smalls. Unfortunately, when KC finally gets to Los Angeles, he learns Pete Smalls is actually dead and his masterpiece, his unfinished final film, is gone. And so begins a frantic search through Los Angeles and Mexico for KC Munk and his buddy Jack Games, Jack’s rich Armenian uncle Sacco, bigwig producer Hal Lazar, Pete’s gold-digging ex-wife Julia, sleazy independent financiers Bernie Lake and Leonard Proval, smoking hot French editor Saskia, and a host of other colorful characters who are all trying to find out the answer to one simple question: Is Pete Smalls Dead?
