Brooklyn, NY, October, 1975 – in the living room of a one bedroom apartment under the el and above a tiny neighborhood bar, four childhood friends find themselves in a life-threatening situation that challenges the validity of the virtues they’ve adopted from a sex, drugs, and rock and roll culture. 

Little Doc, directed by John Gould Rubin, tells the story of Ric, a charismatic 29 year-old one-time pronounced hippie and ambitious drug dealer. In the midst of a large dope deal gone bad, Ric and his friends party excessively and dangerously in the apartment above The Birdsnest, the small bar owned by a local mobster who funded the deal. The moneyman’s thug is sent upstairs to find the thief, which he does with enthusiastic brutality enhanced by his own drug use. The information uncovered, through violent missteps and sexual profligacy, forces a re-examination of marital, father-son, and lover relations, and results in a negotiation that will save a life, but at a vicious cost. As the action unfolds, two things become clear: some will go to nearly any length to survive, and when the “truth” about secrets and broken relationships are revealed, it means something different to all.