

A short story version was released on February 28, 2017. Cast Ī theatrical trailer was released on March 25, 2015. Later that night, Tamara sits in her car, texts a friend, then drives away. She proceeds to put on surgeon scrubs, then stabs Steve with a carving fork, murdering him. A flashback to one year prior and Steve, dressed in a trench coat and holding a knife in his hand, sits on his bed berating Andrei Dzagoev (Harwood Gordon), a former underling of Stalin for murdering his grandfather Ruslan Voronin, a rebel leader, in the Second World War.īack in the present, Tamara explains that Andrei was her husband and the only man who ever truly loved her. She mentions to Steve that an old man used to live there. Tamara casually walks in holding a syringe and injects Derek with a colorless liquid, killing him instantly.

When they wake up, Steve and Derek find themselves in a dark basement strapped to an operating table and chair, respectively.

However, the two young men soon fall for her charm and are tricked into drinking a cocktail laced with a very powerful sedative that knocks them out within seconds. They decide to go to the party but when they arrive, only Tamara is there. When the topic of Stalin's underling comes up, Steve quickly changes the subject to Tamara and the invitation. Over some Colombian marijuana the next day, Steve and his former classmate Derek Urden (Isaac Anderson) discuss a variety of topics including the possible evolution of man and a former right-hand man of Josef Stalin who recently spoke to Derek's religion class about his conversion to Christianity. Steve Pintolivo (Andrew de Burgh), a recent university graduate, receives a Facebook message from a beautiful woman named Tamara Nolan ( Barbara Nedeljakova) inviting him to her Hollywood apartment for a New Year's Eve party. In a dimly lit basement, a masked surgeon examines a bloody carving fork. It holds a rare 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. It premiered at the 2015 Chinese American Film Festival. Just One Drink is a 2015 psychological thriller short film written, produced and directed by Andrew de Burgh, who also stars opposite Barbara Nedeljakova.
