Dr. Raymond Forrester, professor of psychology at UCLA, takes student and Hollywood starlet Dorothy Crowder to a Malibu hotel of questionable reputation. The two ingest LSD, sent in a mysterious package to Forrester, and become some of the first Americans to go on a psychedelic experience. The experience takes a turn for the deadly during New Year's Eve 1960 and now the duo must rediscover reality or be trapped in an endless cycle of sex, drugs and murder in 'paradise.'
Montgomery Markland
Director
Montgomery Markland
Raymond Forrester
Jessica Jade Andres
Sally Dorsey
Lillian Solange Beaudoin
Dorothy Crowder
Robert W. Evans
Paul Garçon
Michael Gordon Andricopoulos
Hugo Von Brandt
Michael Adonis
Hugo Von Brandt
Emilia Bogdanova
LaBianca
Ryan Caldwell
William Billy
Miranda Didberidze
Claudia Donna Vetruccio
Daniel Gendelman
Sheriff Stephen Linahan
Rachel Noll James
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Darren Arronofsky focuses on diverse and heartbreaking stories about the human experience.
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