Life Goes On

Vince and Amy. Homecoming King and Queen. Captain of the football team. Captain of the cheerleading squad. Life at home in their working class neighborhood wasn't always perfect; but they were making the best of it. Or so it seemed. Flash forward eight years. Amy is graduating law school and moving forward. Vince is an addicted dope dealer on a downward spiral to oblivion. Amy finally has to take a stand -- "me or the drugs". Blinded by foolish pride and the local celebrity status he’s attained by being Detroit's underground party supplier, Vince chooses the drugs. To his superficial entourage of customers and cronies, Vince boasts he's better off without her. But she's gone. For real this time. And Vince is feeling it. Racked with self-loathing and loneliness, Vince has to consume near fatal amounts of the drugs he supplies to shut out the pain of life without her. Will this downward spiral continue? Or will Vince kick the drugs and ask Amy to take him back? The next forty-eight hours will tell. Life Goes On is their story... ..Life Goes On is an unflinching look inside the life of a drug dealer during forty-eight, crucial, life or death hours. It’s a relentlessly honest look into the secret, after hour lifestyle of today’s pop-culture, club scene royalty. An intoxicating nightlife fueled by drugs, sex and pulsating, ultra intense music.This rarely seen world serves as the backdrop to a modern day love story set on a path of destruction.At the center of the movie is a visceral, heart pounding, breakout performance by star, writer, producer, Vince Orlando. His co-star is the beautiful newcomer Stacy Szymanski. Szymanski’s on-screen vulnerability delivers a performance that is both courageous and moving. Appearances by rappers Obie Trice (Shady Records) and Paradime (of Kid Rock’s Twisted Brown Trucker) lend an uncompromising realism to the film's portrayal of the Detroit club scene.LGO is helmed by Brian Lawrence, who also directed Vince in the soon to be released feature film, Panic in Detroit, and photographed on film by noted cinematographer, Lon Stratton (Standing in the Shadow’s of Motown, Timequest). The film was shot entirely on location in Detroit – the gritty urban capitol of techno and an influential center of both rock (White Stripes, Kid Rock, Sponge) and rap (Eminem, Obie Trice). The soundtrack features outstanding tracks from influential stars of all three musical genres.Life Goes On is a story actor/writer/producer Vince Orlando felt had to be told after a close friend died of a drug overdose – a friend who fell victim to the excesses of the lifestyle depicted in the film. Vince's personal connection to this story gives it an uncommon sense of realism and urgency.