Afternooner (2025)

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A beachfront bicycle rental shop owner scrambles to beat out a competing rental shop opening the next day. Howie is the hard luck owner of Beverly Bikes, a failing beachfront bicycle rental shop. He’s constantly butting heads with his dimwitted staff and taking his aggression out on the few customers that mosey up to their window; the result of the hubris he uses to conceal his insecurities. Today is no different. With the inevitable opening of the competition, Transcendental Rentals, Howie, to no avail, implements every idea he can come up with to maintain his foothold on the beach. With tensions high and time running out, he hatches the ultimate plan to edge out the competition -- to get his hands on a very special smoke machine. Now he just needs the money, of which he has none. To make matters worse, his cheating girlfriend, Barbados, dumps him and his father disowns him. As he scrambles for the money and the day carries on, he encounters knucklehead thieves, farting dead bodies, a potential new love interest and the hope to turn his luck around. The only question is, will it all work out?

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