Vietnam veteran Jonathan Teller, struggling with guilt and delusions, plans suicide, but a chance encounter disrupts his decision as he grapples with reality, leaving his fate uncertain.
The Plastic Men is an indie feature from Samuel Gonzalez Jr (The Retaliators). Gonzalez is a veteran himself.
The psychological war drama, which is inspired by a true story, stars James Preston (Joshua Tree 1951: A Portrait of James Dean), Aaron Dalla Villa (The Wrath of Becky), and William Fichtner (Heat, The Dark Night) as the narrator.
Pic follows Vietnam veteran Jonathan Teller, who suffers from guilt and paranoid delusions. He decides to take his own life, but as he struggles to come to terms with his choice and reality, a chance encounter changes everything.
Gonzalez Jr. is writer and director, with Matthew Hersh and Gigi Gustin (Night of the Missing) producing along with Gregori J. Martin (The Bay). Melanie Martyn is the executive producer, and she and Gustin also star.
“After completing my first feature film “The Retaliators” I was searching for my next project. I stumbled upon a misplaced lonely AD on Craigslist from a Vietnam veteran searching for the woman who saved his life and stopped him from committing suicide almost 40 years earlier.
Being a veteran myself, I understood his pain and his transition from the hell of war back into normal life. And in a way making this film was the ultimate therapeutic experience. I knew I had to tell his story. I called it “THE PLASTIC MEN” – a term coined for how the Vietnam veterans were treated when they returned home to their country. Discarded and unused plastic toy army men. I hope the film reaches an audience of people who in their own way, if dealing with trauma, loss of hope, PTSD, and mental illness – that there is hope out there, and it comes in the most unexpected ways and the most unexpected of places. You just have to give it “a moment.”
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