- Heartbroken, grieving, and tormented by visions of his hero's death, Mickey Sharpe finds himself stuck in the middle of two opposing gangs as he tries desperately to finish the exposing documentary his best friend died trying to finish.
- Behind the antics and actions played out between our four main friends and the gangsters and criminals they encounter along the way, is a suggestion of the difficulties and questions that young adults face today in work, in love and in preparing for life in the future. The prospect of being able to afford to raise a family, of owning one's own home, or even getting a job with a half-decent salary to start with looks vanishingly small these days - Perhaps crime appears to offer a more achievable route to affording such basic ideals?!.. This is a poignant look at some of the challenges and dilemmas that our modern society has created for the younger generations. Are we making a brighter future for our children or are we actually making life tougher?
- Shortly after he was commissioned to make a documentary on corrupt Traffic Wardens in London, Arav, their friend, is killed. With nothing to do and nowhere to be, the four lads set out to complete the documentary on behalf of their late friend. There is just one thing they need to complete the project - a confession. Desperate, skint and determined, Mickey's erratic decisions lead him to kidnapping a Traffic Warden. He asks his friends to help him film a confession, complete the documentary and get paid. - however this leads them to rival gangsters involved in a £1.5 million cocaine snatch.
- As his girlfriend Gaby leaves him, skint gardener, an avid John Lennon fan, Mickey Sharpe, receives bad news. His filmmaker friend, Arav Garg, has been killed in a car accident leaving an unfinished documentary about a London parking scam.
Traffic wardens are blocking cars with other cars, booking them, and then having the cars lifted for being illegally parked. This is being run by small-time crook Danny Mason.
Arav's aging mother asks if Mickey and his close friends, Frankie, Sherbert, and Bay, can finish her son's film. The commission is worth over £30k.
They take Arav's filming equipment to Mickey's house-sit where the love-sick Mickey studies Arav's film footage and notes about the parking scam.
Sidney Vex, a high-profile drug dealer in the film and entertainment industry, has a plan of his own. His black Bentley has just been driven 2,000 miles loaded with 15Kg of cocaine. There will be a driver-swap in London, so the cocaine cannot be traced to its final destination.
Danny Mason pays for a tip-off about where that driver-swap will take place and plans to block the Bentley and have it lifted away knowing that if it's legally impounded no one will claim it in case the drugs are found.
Clyde Pickett, a traffic warden bullied into the parking scam, is unfortunate enough to have this land on his patch. On the morning of the driver-swap, Clyde stops to book a car outside Mickey's house-sit. Mickey recognises him from Arav's filming.
When Mickey's friends arrive, they are horrified to find Clyde tied to a chair and Mickey optimistic that he can get a filmed confession from Clyde about the parking scam. Following on from Mickey's actions, as the tension and frustration build, the four learn that Clyde's kidnapping has ruined Danny's plan to get the cocaine. They soon realise that they are trapped in a stand-off with armed, drug dealing, gangsters.
Danny's henchmen catch up with the four friends and make them hand over all they own. Clyde's filmed confession about the parking scam is on a memory stick that ends up back in Danny Mason's possession.
When Mickey turns up to get it back he finds Sidney Vex already there with other intentions for Danny. Film producer and drug runner Sidney Vex helps to get Arav's documentary to a London Film Festival where our story ends with the lads winning an award - and a final twist.
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By what name was The Moment Trap: The Lennon Dream (2021) officially released in India in English?
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