45 R.P.M. (2008)

Plotzle Expert · E111 · June 20, 2026 · Drama

Six plot descriptions for 45 R.P.M. (2008). One is the real plot. Five are convincing fakes. Read them and guess which is real.

1. A woman discovers her late father's collection of homemade recordings and travels to Memphis to locate the session musicians he played with before abandoning his family in the seventies.
2. A teenage boy in Goose Lake, Saskatchewan receives a 1960 New York City radio broadcast due to atmospheric conditions and enters a contest while discovering romance with a California military daughter.
3. Two brothers inherit their uncle's failing jukebox repair business in Atlantic City and spend one summer working together before the younger one leaves for graduate school in California.
4. A high school music teacher in Vermont assigns his students to interview elderly residents about pre-digital music consumption but becomes fixated on one woman's account of wartime.
5. A divorced record store owner in Portland reconnects with his estranged teenage daughter when she asks him to convert his vinyl collection to digital format for her college project.
6. An aging disc jockey in rural Montana reflects on his forty-year career as the station owner prepares to switch to automated programming and terminate his employment after decades.