
The Hon Lucius Kluge
- honourable lucky clever
- might be the only guy in Los Angeles who's still living in the past Lucky pines for the old days of the New Hollywood before Star Wars & superheroes blew up the movies for good He spends his days working for an antiques business his nights boozing & brooding on his former life as an almost-successful screenwriter But when his ex-best friend goes AWOL & his elderly boss is assaulted during the theft of a vintage cookie jar Lucky & his partner Raul are spurred reluctantly into something like action A satire of sundered friendships & frayed male egos at the Hollywood intersection of art & commerce Smoke Over Malibu is a soft-boiled mystery a fish-out-of-water farce a buddy comedy an inaction thriller a hipster indie It's Raymond Chandler meets Nick Hornby; it's The Big Lebowski meets Lovejoy It is absolutely positively not a superhero blockbuster