Shakespeare In And Out (1999)

In the 1980s a filmmaker begins a project to record the life of an average kid In Perry Ohio he picks Rich Longfellow a shy lad and begins filming Soon after he dies in Mozambique Sixteen years later his son continues the project finding Rich now 23 in LA with dreams of being a Shakespearean actor getting experience in porn films We meet Betsy Richs sensible girlfriend Lee the impatient producer and Carmichael a director with artistic pretensions who inspires Rich Problems with Besty and tension on the set bring Rich to a crisis when his boyhood friend starts a Shakespeare company that tours nursing homes in the San Fernando Valley Rich sees a way out