Wanna-be stars in a no-star hotel! In the early Aughts, aspiring Canadian comic Steve Markle came to Los Angeles with little more than a MiniDV camera and a dream. Instead of making it big in stand-up comedy, Markle crafted this utterly fascinating, haunting, and sad feature doc about the chain-smoking creatives, ex-cons, outcasts, poets, addicts, and industry-adjacent aspirants he met during his two-month stay at the Highland Gardens Hotel.

ALL TIMES ARE PACIFIC

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