- Three guys on the verge of forty begin to realize all the best things in their lives happened before they were twenty. A spontaneous road trip adventure gives them a chance to balance the ledger.
- Mark, McGriff, and Jason are three high-school buddies whose glory days are long gone and are still stuck in their small Pennsylvania hometown. To break free and escape their much-too-ordinary lives, they embark on a cross-country road trip to the College Football Championship Bowl. The journey takes them, boozing and misbehaving all the way, through hilarious twists and turns. Throughout the wild adventure, they discover that the most important thing in this crazy, uncertain world is friendship.—D.B. Sweeney
- In Pennsylvania, Mark Hewson, Billy McGriff and Jason Klein are best friends since they were kids. Now, they are all around forty and they have troubles in their personal lives. Mark is a gambler with a 27,000 dollar-debt and when his family is threatened by a collector, his wife Sherry takes his son with her and moves to the house of her mother. Billy is a truck driver and aspirant guitar player and when he arrives earlier at home, he witnesses his wife Kate cheating on him. When Jason shows two tickets for championship bowl game in Florida to his friends, they decide to organize a road trip to watch the football game. Along their journey, they realize that they are losers and meet several people that help each of them to make self-discovery.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Although life hasnt turned out the way they once dreamed, life-long buddies Mark, McGriff and Jason are managing to stay above water in their small Pennsylvania hometown. Mark, whose fleeting college football glory has morphed into a dangerous obsession with gambling, is becoming more and more estranged from his wife Sherry and son Hayden. McGriff has never let go of his rock-n-roll aspirations, but somehow hes not the man he used to be. Hes complacent, though, because of his lovely wife Kate. And then theres Jason, whos still living with his parents and letting them dictate his life. The guys are in for a few surprises. A shady collector forces his way into Marks home to settle a debt, scaring Sherry into leaving with Hayden. As if thats not enough, Marks father passes away, leaving him with the unresolved tension in their relationship. Meanwhile, McGriff comes home from work early and finds his wife in a compromising position with another man. (Who ironically is a big fan of McGriffs) What to do when life deals you hard knocks? Jason has the solution: With the College Football Championship Bowl tickets he won in an employee drawing at Office Max, the three friends set out on a road trip from Pennsylvania to the Sunshine State. Things dont go as smoothly as planned, though. McGriff is driving everyone crazy with the guitar he insisted on bringing, Jason lets the map fly out the window, and Mark overhears a once-in-a-lifetime betting tip that he cant act on. Somewhere between setting Vanna Whites ancestral home on fire to almost getting eaten by gators to receiving pseudo-prophetic advice from a one-arm carnie, tensions rise between the three friends and the shortcomings of each become apparent. They ultimately find themselves on the edge of a bridge with a pact to jump off together. The beer talking? Perhaps. Marks near-fall brings them back to reality and sets them on a new line of thought. If they just faked their own deaths it would give them all a chance to start anew. That decided, they push Marks prized vintage car into an alligator infested swamp. But starting a new life is not as easy as it seems. They still have the same problems, the same heartaches, the same failed dreams. Disgruntled and bitter, their true feelings rush out, and the trio angrily disbands. On their own they begin to discover what is really important. For Mark, its his family, and being the kind of father his father was. For McGriff, its finally taking a stand and reclaiming the confidence he once had. For Jason, its a girl named Janice who can throw a mean game of darts and who loves him for who he already is. And of course, for all three, its each other. Two Tickets to Paradise is a comedy that is both hilarious and heartwarming. It takes us on a journey of lost dreams and underappreciated treasures and reminds us that in this crazy, uncertain world, the one thing we can count on is our friends.
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