Deadly Serious

A stand-up comic haunted by a family secret...Its 1980 Los Angeles. Dan Goodis is a struggling irreverent stand-up comic who likes to speak his mind. When he witnesses the brutal assassination of a brilliant hermit physicist it sets him on a path that leads to the discovery of his fathers dark CIA past and he soon learns that being funny can be deadly serious business.Before he is murdered the physicist inadvertently gives Dan a secret code. Dan doesnt want to be involved but soon discovers he has no choice: he is being hunted down by members of a secret cabal who want to silence him and stop him from revealing what he knows. Obsessed with the puzzle Dan realizes he must solve the riddle of the hermits death if he is going to find a way out. He enlists the help of his family and friends as well as his new lover Lauren. But he quickly finds out that by involving his allies he has exposed all of them to imminent danger. Dan realizes he is in too deep and there is no turning back. It seems his only option is to put everything on the line though he knows that disclosure of the hermits code could cost him his life.