Bullsh!t

A lighter and funnier COCAINE BEAR meets the country feel of TWISTERS

Logline: A screwup ranch-hand and his hapless buddies work in real time to catch the raging bull he accidentally let out, before it wreaks havoc on their small town and his blunder is discovered by his fed-up boss and his newly-pregnant, long-suffering girlfriend.

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Synopsis: 

It’s Saturday in a sleepy little middle-of-nowhere town with cute shops and a Little League Baseball opening day parade scheduled for the morning. Just outside the town is Lucia’s beef cattle ranch, where a huge angry Angus bull named Ballsy is bored and ready to murder. 19-year-old Mikey works here as a ranch hand. He has screwed up too many things to count, from his stint in juvey to the jobs he’s been fired from to his most recent mistake: getting his girlfriend Gigi pregnant. Gigi wants them to raise their baby together and be a family, and Mikey has told her he’s in. But he’s not in. He’s scared shitless. This morning, Gigi confronts him about how he hasn’t done any of the things they talked about to get their lives together for this. He assures he that he’s not bullshitting her and that they’ll tell their news to their parents soon. But Mikey is so wrapped up in worrying about all this that he fucks up on the job: he fails to shut the bullpen gate all the way, and Ballsy gets out. If Mikey’s boss Lucia finds out what Mikey did, his job is history. At the worst time possible for him.  So Mikey decides he’ll have to track this beast down before she finds out.
 
With the help of his dumb but loyal best friend Cheese, and the antagonism of his hotshot coworker Rhett, Mikey works in real time to try to catch this four-legged wrecking ball as the damages pile up.  This impossible task is made all the harder when Gigi’s cop dad Damien joins the bull-chase and challenges Mikey’s knowhow. As this ragtag group of rednecks and screwups chase Ballsy all the way to a literal china shop in town, Mikey comes face to face with his own inadequacy when Ballsy shoves Gigi’s dad through the china shop window. Just as Gigi discovers that Mikey’s been lying to her about how the bull escaped and Damien overhears that Gigi’s is pregnant. To Mikey, it seems like Gigi and their kid will be better off without him. So he runs.
 
But as Ballsy approaches the huge gathering of families for the Little League parade, Mikey receives some reluctant encouragement from Gigi’s dad that helps him dig deep. Mikey is able to admit his mistakes, and he reconciles with Gigi. While Gigi drives to get a rifle just in case they need it, Mikey gets Cheese and the firefighters to help him move the crowd to safety. Lucia arrives with an in heat heifer in her trailer to try luring the bull in there. But before they can try, everyone realizes that a little kid has escaped into the field with Ballsy. Mikey doesn’t hesitate: he runs into the field to distract the bull, confronting Ballsy head-on. Clinging to the rope still around Bally’s neck from an earlier lassoing attempt, Mikey is able to reach Bally’s nose ring, debilitating the bull just long enough for them to get the trailer in place. As Mikey and Gigi reunite, he proposes. And the two of them look ahead to their next adventure: parenthood.