Hollywood Riptide

<p>A seismic shift in Hollywood’s power structure occurred during the 1980s.</p><p>Gone were the moguls and founding fathers of the motion picture industry — Jack L. Warner Louis B. Mayer Carl Laemmle Samuel Goldwyn and Darryl Zanuck.</p><p>The studios were being taken over by technological giants such as Sony and Panasonic and the new owners turned to lawyers and talent agents to run their newly obtained properties.</p><p>In 1982 an aspiring young screenwriter Nick Caggiano moves from the Bronx to Los Angeles hoping to find work in the industry.</p><p>At a famous bar and restaurant on the Sunset Strip one night he encounters a wealthy young woman named Nicole. What transpires between them creates a riptide of greed corruption and perversion that drags Nick through the underbelly of the Hollywood establishment upending his life and challenging his moral fabric and his sense of self.<br /> </p>