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REFLUX is a dark comedy about a deadened office worker who discovers rap music as a cathartic outlet for his anxiety and anger toward the world, only to find that it drives away everyone he loves.
Adam Vitale is an expert in deglutition. It's not a belief, a practice or a theory. It's a succession of muscular contractions that initiate at the lips, progress along the dorsum of the tongue, pass through the fauces and end with the pharynx and soft palette. The layman knows it as "swallowing." In his late teens, Adam swallowed his dreams of becoming a famous drummer in lieu of a more practical path. When the girl he loved broke his heart, he swallowed his hurt and anger, and when a long-time acquaintance stepped in four months later and pressured him to get married, he swallowed and said OK. Adam swallowed and pushed forward through two unplanned children, a foreclosure, missed work promotions and a thieving brother. And each day, he swallows down the isolation, contempt and fear he feels at home and at work. All that Adam has swallowed has been festering and fermenting in his gut. But the body is a complex machine with built-in mechanisms for ejecting and eradicating what's not ...

Credited cast:
Cristen Adams Cristen Adams - Record Store Patron
Diarro Collazo Diarro Collazo - The MC
Megan Curry Megan Curry - Record Store Cashier
Drew Hawkins Drew Hawkins - Grayson Vitale
Tonya Hawkins Tonya Hawkins - Grace Vitale
Jon Martin Jon Martin - Don Strutt
Aleksander Nikolic Aleksander Nikolic - Bryce
Cara Rossi Cara Rossi - Roxie
Phil Rossi Phil Rossi - Adam Vitale
Steve Rossi Steve Rossi - Postal Boy
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