This short won the Academy Award for Live Action Short. There will be spoilers ahead:
This is a very funny and charming short about a woman named Marion, recently widowed, visiting her daughter in New York City. Across from the building where her daughter lives, a motorcycle "club" has its headquarters/"clubhouse". The bikers going in and out look like the stereotypical biker-long hair, tats, bandannas and so on.
Marion is concerned about them and has nightmares involving them. Then, one day when she has a problem, one of them helps her out. She goes across the street and thanks him the next day, in the process getting the other side of the story regarding one or two earlier plot points and she decides they're really not so scary. There's a great development I won't spoil, it leads to a marvelous ending.
In addition to all of that, there's a thread running through the film regarding the dynamics of the mother and daughter relationship. "Once a mom, always a mom" is a big theme in this short.
This short is on a DVD from Atom Films and is well worth finding. Most recommended.
This is a very funny and charming short about a woman named Marion, recently widowed, visiting her daughter in New York City. Across from the building where her daughter lives, a motorcycle "club" has its headquarters/"clubhouse". The bikers going in and out look like the stereotypical biker-long hair, tats, bandannas and so on.
Marion is concerned about them and has nightmares involving them. Then, one day when she has a problem, one of them helps her out. She goes across the street and thanks him the next day, in the process getting the other side of the story regarding one or two earlier plot points and she decides they're really not so scary. There's a great development I won't spoil, it leads to a marvelous ending.
In addition to all of that, there's a thread running through the film regarding the dynamics of the mother and daughter relationship. "Once a mom, always a mom" is a big theme in this short.
This short is on a DVD from Atom Films and is well worth finding. Most recommended.