An 8 minute short film

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Cast

Dougray Scott........ Neil Johnson
Arlene Cockburn...... Emma
Bill Gardiner............ Dougal
Elspet Cameron....... Gran
Wendy Wason........ Denise
Sarah Collier........... Mrs. MacIntosh
Michael McKenzie.... Mr. MacIntosh
Billy Riddock........... Uncle Jack

 

Credits

Director................ Saul Metzstein
Producer............... Jill Roberson
Screenwriter.......... John Wrathall
Genre.................... Comedy/Drama film short
Release date.......... 1997 UK
Company............... Firesign Productions Ltd.
  Scottish Screen
  Glasgow Film Office

 

Synopsis

You should be careful where you get your holiday snaps developed in this cautionary tale.

Emma is a young woman who works in a photograph developer's shop called Magic Moments. She fancies a young man called Neil who comes in to get his holiday snaps from Majorca developed. Neil has no time for her, but Emma has a curious hobby. She makes copies of the photos with which she brightens up the life of her Gran in an old people's home with talks of 'her' foreign holidays. When Neil spurns her though, she gets her revenge by cutting and pasting herself into the photos - spoiling a family get together at which Neil was about to announce his engagement.

 

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Articles:
Why it pays to get shorty

 

Links:
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