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Wayne (Jeremy Sumpter) is a notorious under-achiever working for Dwyer's
(Jeremy Holm) logistics company where he does just enough to not get fired
but not enough to get ahead. And since he's in plenty of debt, he earns a
little extra-money by selling drugs to his colleagues in need. And then he
learns about an opportunity to bring a big shipment of drugs in from
Canada for drug czar Hoppy (Rae Gray), an opportunity too big not to seize
- but unfortunately he needs quite a bit of money for a down payment,
money he doesn't have, so he ropes in two of his colleagues, Raquel (Nina
Ganet) and Big Guy (Partick Zielinski). And at first glance, his plan
seems fool-proof, to build a submarine to sneak into Canada and out again
to avoid all customs, police and whatnot - pretty ingeníous, and it almost
works, only there's one tiny flaw that has the submarine and all its
contents sink in the end - Wayne has no experience in building submarines.
So now his situation has seriously worsened since Hoppy still wants her
drugs, and not even his friends can help out as he has wasted all their
money, too. So he comes up with another plan that actually involves his
work: Why not have shipments of one of their clients, a big pharma
company, get "lost" every now and again? After all, shipments get lost all
of the time and are insured, so it's pretty much a victimless crime.
Sounds like an ingenious and risk-free plan, and for a time it works quite
fine - until of course shipments get swapped, and when a sex shop owner
expecting a crate of dildos receives a load of drugs instead, he gets
suspicious enough to report this to the police ...
Now sure, not all the humour of Oxy Morons is exactly high
brow, and in some instances, the film is just a little too loud, too, but
that said, more often than not the jokes really land, and the added satire
on turbo capitalism isn't only very welcome, it also works quite so well
as it's not front-and-center but instead lets a highly original story
unfold that's populated by relatable characters embodied by a very
competent ensemble. Worth a watch for sure - and quite a few chuckles.
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