Friendship is a very strange thing, sometimes you find yourself being friends with someone that you never thought you'd even talk to. Well, friendship is the theme behind a cool new movie from Jimmy Traynor, called The Ticket.

The Ticket is really the story of Butch, a guy who desperately wants to be a tough guy. We first meet him when he's been tossed off a job as a security guard (where despite all his tough talk, two guys scare him into tears) and his girlfriend has tossed him out. He finds himself looking for a new job, and comes across an ad about being a bodyguard. When he turns up at the interview, the field is winnowed down to just Butch and William vieing for the job to guard Charlie, a young man who's just won the lottery and wants to make sure that no one takes advantage of him. At first, Butch and William play a game of one-ups-manship trying to win Charlie's favor, but slowly, they both begin to thaw and soon find themselves not only liking Charlie, but enjoying one another's company as well. In the end, Charlie is revealed to be something completely different than what he's been pretending to be, and everyone discovers that some things can't be bought.

Jimmy Traynor's The Ticket is an indie movie with a huge heart. These two tough guys who want to be body guards are polar opposites, one resembling a biker and the other a metro-sexual, and Charlie falling somewhere between slacker and loser. But the three of them make a pretty interesting team, Fabrice Uzan and Vincent De Paul steal the show as Butch and William respectively, it's the interplay between these two that make the movie interesting, the final scenes, that revolve around Charlie's secret being revealed and understood felt a bit forced, almost as if Traynor couldn't find an ending and this just fit. Overall, The Ticket is a good movie, the acting is good, the story is better than most indie movies, but it's really the cast that pulls this together. I'm giving The Ticket two and a half out of four cigars, it's not the perfect movie, but it's got enough going for it that it's worth checking out. You can find out more about Jimmy Traynor's The Ticket by heading over to the JPNT Films web site.