Couch Party (2023)

"Couch Party" is a comedy feature film about a young woman, Briella who flees to the small town of Maple Creek in hopes of escaping her abusive husband. However, she quickly realizes that her problems are just beginning. Having arrived with no belongings to her name, Briella is gifted an old couch from her new landlord, Mama Lu, and discovers with the help of her new roommate Joy that the couch has a unique kind of magic. The kind that when men sit on it, they are immediately put in a harmless sleep state, as in totally knocked out, coma-style. Both Joy, who has big dreams to save enough money to move to Hollywood for her singing career, and Briella, who wants to get her life back on track sees this magical couch as an opportunity. Joy convinces her to host "couch parties" where they lure men to sit on the couch and rob them of cash and jewelry. For Briella, staying under the radar of her ex-husband is crucial, instead, she finds herself in a world of trouble when she catches the eye of Eric, the local police officer who also happens to be investigating these random reports of missing items. With both Joy and Briella making careless mistakes their crimes begin to catch up to them. Will Briella's ex-husband Aaron discovers her location, will she and Joy be able to raise enough money to fulfill their dreams, will Eric apprehend the robbers, will the man on the couch wake up before the magic runs out.