The Story

Jeff (Giovanni Ribisi) is twenty, attending community college, working a part-time job and still living at home in suburban "Burnfield." He hangs out with two friends - Tim (Nicky Katt), an Air Force drop-out and petty thug, and Buff (Steve Zahn), a buddy from high school who works at a pizza joint - usually in the parking lot of a 24-hour convenience store run by a Pakistani couple, Nazeer (Ajay Naidu) and Pakeeza (Samia Shoaib). As the film opens, we find them there, drinking a few beers, shooting the breeze, perfecting their well-practiced craft of killing time. Jeff's girlfriend Sooze (Amie Carey) and her friend Bee-Bee (Dina Spybey) soon join the trio because an old high school chum, Pony (Jayce Bartok), a successful rock musician, might be dropping by to visit. Pony shows up in a stretch limo with his publicist Erica (Parker Posey), and in short order, the tension and energy builds as each of the friends react to Pony's success. As the group parties, rides in the limo and splinters off, we follow a slow-burning fuse leading to the explosive ending.