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SYNOPSIS: Drama
JAMERSON BANKS is a sixty-five-year-old ex-movie star who was blackballed from the film industry more than twenty years ago. Once a powerful man who commanded millions of dollars for his work, Jamerson has been reduced to a lonely, guilt-ridden, shell-of-a-man, existing in almost complete seclusion, and desperate for redemption.

Young screenwriter ROBERT PARSONS interrupts Jamerson’s solitude by knocking on his front door with a script in his hand. It took Robert five-long-years to develop the script which contains a certain character he wrote specifically for Jamerson Banks. This important character is pivotal to his story.

Jamerson is hesitant to allow Robert entry into his home until Robert mentions a certain producer's name. The mere mention of the individual's name instantly musters past memories in Jamerson's mind. He takes Robert into his home and begins to tell the sordid story of his life, beginning when he was but a four-year-old child being pushed by his domineering mother into the vast, cruel world of the film industry.

In an almost self-deprecating manner, Jamerson holds nothing back as he tells the unbelievable story of a young single stage mother, filled with bitterness, pushing her child into the life of show business by the use of deceptions, dirty tricks, and hate. From the late forties to the late eighties, Jamerson informs Robert of how he spent an entire lifetime as an unspeakable cad, hurting people in order to advance his own career in films. He also speaks of a specific death he felt solely responsible for… and of revenge.

Robert is an avid listener, stunned by some of the revelations presented him by Jamerson, especially the revenge factor. A revenge that lasted more than nine years and ate at Jamerson, turning him into a cold-hearted individual, filled with hate and bitterness. It was this revenge factor that ultimately ended his stardom and career in films when he was blackballed from the industry.

Throughout the day Robert also receives a lesson in history and how certain political events hurt Hollywood, such as the McCarthy hearings. However, the majority of Jamerson's story is directed at the heart of a miserable human being… himself. An “A-list” actor who desired nothing but power, and to prove he held the power, he would destroy anyone that stood in his way, including the woman he secretly loved.

After carefully listening to Jamerson's story, Robert fully realizes he must find a way to get Jamerson to play the role he specifically wrote for him. It's a role Jamerson was meant to play, for it is almost a mirror image of his own tragic life. But there's a problem, a very large problem. Robert is fully aware that the producer he initially mentioned to Jamerson is not only producing his project, but is also the individual who had Jamerson Banks blackballed from the film industry, twenty long years ago.