Logline: Estranged sisters team up to pursue the greatest nostalgic prize of the Halloween season – limited edition McDonald’s Boo Bucket Happy Meals, but find their quest for plastic reconciliation threatened when past trauma resurfaces and new secrets come to light.
- Feature
- Comedy
- 97 Pages
- 4x Quarterfinalist
- Coverfly
Synopsis
Megan Jackson hasn’t seen her sister, Katie, for several years now. After their mother died when they were younger, Megan needed her father and her sister to be there for her, and they weren’t. All these years later, Katie the flake hasn’t changed a bit – she’s late, not paying attention, and totally undependable. Megan knows this, because Katie came back into her life today.
For their father’s funeral.
To make matters worse, their father’s dying wish was that the sisters reconcile. That’s the last thing Megan wants to do, but when they find out McDonald’s is bringing back one of their favorite shared nostalgias – limited edition Boo Buckets Happy Meals – she can’t argue with her sister that it would be the perfect opportunity for them to honor their father’s request.
The problem is, everyone else in town wants these buckets, too. They visit locations all across Los Angeles racing against the lunch-break clock, and throughout their search for these elusive plastic treasures, they come across mafia-like grandmothers, get shot at, and start some fires and fights. As they continue to come up short and the problems mount, Megan learns she’s unexpectedly pregnant, bringing the tension between them to a boiling point when Katie’s offbeat nature finally puts more than just their quest at stake.
To see this through and end the cycle of their family’s mistakes, Megan and Katie will have to reconcile their differences and figure out how to be sisters again, if not for the sake of their father, then for the sake of the Boo Buckets.
McBucket List is about nostalgia, trauma, and healing. It’s about facing our fears of who we are, and with the help of the ones we love, learning who we can be if we’re strong enough to try. It’s also about McDonald’s Boo Buckets, and the impact something so silly can have on a life – because as Katie observes, Happy Meals can heal.
Boo Buckets for life.