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Burnt-out musical genius Declan Deckhart, keyboardist Marshall Dyson, and guitarist Joey Bobo---the remaining members of the 80s chart-topping band Approach Control---are lured to Las Vegas by their former manager and a mysterious young woman. A present-day comeback is within reach when a BBC4 television producer convinces them to record a new hit song with a current British pop sensation, but reasons for the downfall of Approach Control are resurrected when large egos clash about money, blame, love, and fame. A movie musical based on real, heartbreaking, and hilarious events.

Kimball Johnson is a non-conformist with a heart-and someone willing to lose everything to tilt at windmills. In the style of esteemed documentary filmmaker Albert Maysles, documentary filmmaker Gabriel Lakey spent six years following this true American original. Some might call Kimball Johnson crazy, some might call him foolish, and others might call him enlightened, but pursuing his passions headlong without a harness can bear a heavy price. Would you be willing to lose everything you owned for the feeling of having tried and lost? Is this pigweed philosopher an unconventional genius who figured out that life is best lived at the outer fringes or is he just the quintessential Don Quixote of broken dreams who never found his way home?