At The Maple Grove

At The Maple Grove

A renowned night club preps a final show, a young director suffers a health scare and creativity bleeds into life.

2014 · 110 min · Drama, Music, Crime

Driven by a desire to live forever through cinema, aspiring filmmaker Nathaniel Heaton sets out to fuse his life into the narrative of a movie in this film-within-a-film. Both a dreamer and a romantic, Heaton escapes his estranged relationships, professional failures, and concerns of mortality by retreating more and more into the world of the movie that exists in his imagination... a world where gangsters close in and a struggling old nightclub prepares for what may be its final show.

Directed by Christopher Zatta · Written by Christopher Zatta

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Cast

Matt Micucci Nathaniel Heaton
Chip Godwin Ben Zorn
Don Scribner Seymour Harmon
Seymour Cassel Boyle
James Kyson Charlie
Ryn Weaver Noelle
Alison Zatta Theresa Heaton
Marielle Vigneau-Britt Rhian Jagger
Paulette McWilliams Gena Pierce
Catriona Toop Olivia Giard
Kat Martin Daphne

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