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Serious People Movie Trailer HD - Plot synopsis: Successful Music Video director Pasqual Gutierrez is faced with a dilemma on the due date of his first-born child: a job offer for his biggest video yet. Frustrated with his poor work/life balance, Gutierrez casts a doppelgänger named Miguel to take over his work duties in his director duo Cliqua as he prepares to take an extended paternity leave. But as Pasqual starts to spend more time with Miguel to teach him how to step into this new role, Pasqual's relationship and his work suffer, ending with a disastrous music video shoot. SERIOUS PEOPLE explores what it means to be a “director,” a parent, and the replaceability of people in clout-heavy Los Angeles.

WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY: Pasqual Gutierrez & Ben Mullinkosson

PRODUCED BY: Ryan Hahn, Laurel Thomson, Teddy Lee

STARRING: Pasqual Gutierrez, Christine Yuan, RJ Sanchez, Miguel Huerta

OFFICIAL SELECTION: SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2025
Transcript
00:00Let me take your hair.
00:01Thank you so much.
00:01I got you.
00:02That's a gentleman.
00:04You got it?
00:05And you can use this pole.
00:06This pole is super safe.
00:10Well, when are they trying to shoot, bro?
00:12February.
00:13February?
00:14Ah, man.
00:15I'm having my freaking kid.
00:17Yo, look.
00:17I gotta do this.
00:19Biggest artist in the world, bro.
00:25When does he want to shoot it?
00:27They want to do it in February right now.
00:29But that's when we're having the baby.
00:31Oh, I know.
00:32I know.
00:35I'm here to audition for the role of Pascual.
00:39Pascual.
00:39Pascual.
00:40Pascual.
00:41All right, so Miguel, what do you think it takes to become a great director?
00:44Bro, I just gotta become you.
00:49I don't know how to explain it, but this is who I am.
00:53I've been reading this book.
00:54This one guy described this study that he did,
00:57and he described it as an amnesiac phenomenon.
01:01These young fathers, within their first year,
01:04couldn't remember who they were before having the baby.
01:08I'm gonna have a literal idiot walking around.
01:10Is he like a home student at least?
01:11It feels like you're doing it for you because you're having some type of midlife crisis.
01:14I'm not having a midlife crisis.
01:16I'm not having them in my crisis, okay?
01:20You seem a little stressed.
01:21I'm stressed.
01:22Yeah.
01:22You're definitely stressed.
01:24What do I want to be on?
01:24Let's not do that.
01:25Are you gonna keep interrupting me or what, dude?
01:27Who is gonna walk on?
01:28Yo, yo, yo, yo.
01:29When they ask you if the video's gonna be good, what do you gotta tell them?
01:38It's gonna be awesome.
01:40It's gonna be awesome.
01:40And it's gonna be a movie.
01:43A movie, a movie.
01:44It's gonna be a movie.
01:44It's gonna be a movie.
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