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Growing older, landing the dream job, catching a flight, surviving a wedding, delivering cupcakes and adopting a cat—what could possibly go wrong? Quite a lot, thankfully.
Babs Daitch is eighty years young and still moving faster than everyone around her. Winona has minutes before a dream interview and decides birds should make his decisions for him. Muhammad only wants to catch his flight—but airport security has other ideas. A trusted wedding-day guard discovers exactly from whom he should have been guarding the family gold. Chad puts on the princess dress, picks up the cupcakes and watches his day collapse, one humiliation at a time. Max convinces his friend Joy to join him in getting a cosmetic procedure and then hiding away in Palm Springs over the holidays to convalesce. And Jules and Mimi welcome an adorable cat into their home, only to discover that his preferred food is human.
A young man has been tasked with watching over his girlfriend’s family home on the day of her older sister’s wedding. He must protect the customary Indian wedding gifts of gold that lie within, though never predicted who he would have to guard against…
- Year2025
- Runtime11 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryUnited Kingdom
- GenreDark Comedy, Family, Immigrant / Diaspora, Narrative, Queer, Short Film, Transgender
- Social Media
- DirectorPatricia McCormick
- ScreenwriterPatricia McCormick
- ProducerEliza Heslop
- CastPete Machale, Gavi Singh Chera, Tuwaine Barrett, Farah Ashraaf, Amerjit Deu
Growing older, landing the dream job, catching a flight, surviving a wedding, delivering cupcakes and adopting a cat—what could possibly go wrong? Quite a lot, thankfully.
Babs Daitch is eighty years young and still moving faster than everyone around her. Winona has minutes before a dream interview and decides birds should make his decisions for him. Muhammad only wants to catch his flight—but airport security has other ideas. A trusted wedding-day guard discovers exactly from whom he should have been guarding the family gold. Chad puts on the princess dress, picks up the cupcakes and watches his day collapse, one humiliation at a time. Max convinces his friend Joy to join him in getting a cosmetic procedure and then hiding away in Palm Springs over the holidays to convalesce. And Jules and Mimi welcome an adorable cat into their home, only to discover that his preferred food is human.
A young man has been tasked with watching over his girlfriend’s family home on the day of her older sister’s wedding. He must protect the customary Indian wedding gifts of gold that lie within, though never predicted who he would have to guard against…
- Year2025
- Runtime11 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryUnited Kingdom
- GenreDark Comedy, Family, Immigrant / Diaspora, Narrative, Queer, Short Film, Transgender
- Social Media
- DirectorPatricia McCormick
- ScreenwriterPatricia McCormick
- ProducerEliza Heslop
- CastPete Machale, Gavi Singh Chera, Tuwaine Barrett, Farah Ashraaf, Amerjit Deu