One Night at McCool's (2001) on Netflix
One night at McCool's, bartender Randy steps in when Utah confronts a woman named Jewel, and takes her home. Randy's cousin Carl and Detective Dehling each tell their version of that night.
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Plot summary
Randy works as a bartender at McCool's. One night a woman named Jewel comes in, and when her boyfriend Utah confronts her, Randy steps in and takes her home. Carl, a relative of Randy's who was at the bar, tells his therapist what he saw from his car, where he had been sleeping off a drunk. Detective Dehling, working the case, gives his account to his friend Father Jimmy. The three men each narrate what they take to be the true version of that night, and the same scenes play out with their accounts contradicting one another. Randy presents himself as the innocent party; Carl is sure every woman is in love with him.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about One Night at McCool's (2001)
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- Writer Stan Seidel died before the film's release, and he drew much of the screenplay's material from a bartender's days at Humphrey's Restaurant & Tavern, a college bar located in the midst of St. Louis University.
