Flashbacks of a Fool (2008) on Netflix
Joe Scot's Hollywood career is flagging and his days are drink, drugs and one-night stands. News that his boyhood friend Boots McKay has died sends him to a 1970s English coastal town.
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Plot summary
In Los Angeles, Joe Scot is a British actor whose Hollywood career has stalled. He drinks, takes drugs and has one-night stands, and his personal assistant Ophelia has grown tired of his behavior. A phone call brings word that Boots McKay, his closest friend from childhood, has died. The news carries Joe back to the 1970s and a town on the English coast, where he lives with his mother, his aunt and his younger sister Jesse. There he looks out for Boots, who has epilepsy. Evelyn Adams, a married neighbor, keeps trying to seduce him, and Joe also begins seeing Ruth, a popular girl his own age.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Flashbacks of a Fool (2008)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Flashbacks of a Fool was the first feature film directed by Baillie Walsh, who had previously directed music videos for acts including Massive Attack, Oasis and INXS.
