Three simultaneous stories take place in a New Jersey bar.

Jake the Cinephile is the story of a young film fanatic who, fed up with the rowdy behavior and disrespectful etiquette of movie theater audiences, decides to abandon the cinema and take a stab at an actual relationship with a young woman.

Marty, a lovelorn student at New York University, uncomfortably mingles with fellow members of his debate team at a college party, before breaking away from them entirely.