Mike Skloot

Cosmo Vitelli vient de rembourser la dernière hypothèque de sa boîte de nuit et fête l'événement à une table de jeux où il perd une très grosse somme d'argent. La pègre lui propose une alternative : pour éponger sa dette, il doit assassiner un vieux bookmaker chinois devenu gênant. Mais travailler pour le milieu est une entreprise bien périlleuse.

Claire Makes It Big, Jeremy Workman's award- winning short comedy, follows the travails of a talented overweight actress and her difficulties landing a decent movie role. A sharply written and briskly directed satire of the acting and filmmaking professions that then turns into a hilarious wish-fulfillment fantasy, it also features a lovely lead performance by Mara Hobel (whom Joan Crawford-heads may recognize as the child Christina Crawford in Mommie Dearest) and funny supporting turns from more recognizable folks like Clancy Brown, Paige Turco and Peter Bogdanovich, along with a voice cameo from the late Don LaFontaine.