(re)Search my Trash

<body> <div align="left"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" width="800" cellpadding="0" height="100%"> <tr> <td width="100" rowspan="2" background="../stylepix/square.gif" valign="top">  </td> <td width="4" rowspan="2"></td> <td width="592" valign="top"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" width="592"> <tr> <td width="100%">  </td> </tr> </table>    <table border="0" cellspacing="0" width="255" align="right"> <tr> <td width="100%"> <p align="right"><img border="0" src="../stills/daddyswallet-poster.jpg" width="250" height="380"></td> </tr> </table> <p>He's (Daniel Martin Berkey) retired at a good pension, has a loving wife (Natasa Babic), a daughter (Kelley Heyer) in college, a nice home ... and he has fallen in love with Natalie (Gina Holden), a girl very literally the age of his daughter. But it soon becomes clear that it's not really her that he loves but the lifestyle that comes with youth, endless partying, too much alcohol, LSD, and maybe even the occasional threeway. And the further he goes down this rabbithole the less he cares what anybody, even his wife, thinks about this, figuring he who has the money can make the rules, to a point where Natalie more or less moves in with him before his wife's very eyes. Seemingly, he doesn't see how his behaviour hurts others - but even less, he sees how it hurts himself ...<p> <p>A pretty powerful character piece that doesn't just go the usual way to hammer home a message about (post-)midlife crisis, but forces the perspective of its flawed protagonist upon us, that way makes his point of view tangible as something more than an old sleazebag who ought to know better. And a subtle direction in conjunction with a strong ensemble make this a quite compelling short. </td> <td width="4" rowspan="2"></td> <td width="100" rowspan="2" background="../stylepix/squareright.gif" valign="top">  </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="592" valign="top">  <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> currentyear = "2021"; </SCRIPT> <SCRIPT language="JavaScript" src="../scripts/endcredits.js"></SCRIPT> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> dosworsdonn(); </SCRIPT> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </body>