The Ride of Tom & Valkyrie (2011)

Overview

This is the story of the heroic psychological journey of Tom, a depressed insomniac locked in a small Chinatown studio that he’s afraid to leave. Grieving the loss of his wife and daughter, and tormented by memories of a dysfunctional family, he hallucinates about his childhood heroes: Ben Franklin, a samurai, a ’70’s sitcom star, and a comic book hero–all of whom help Tom in his struggle to maintain his sanity. Meanwhile, Valkyrie, Tom’s beautiful neighbor–whom he has never met–zips across Manhattan on series of disastrous blind dates in pursuit of her goal “to find the last real man in New York City, by midnight, tonight.