Released:
1988-10-24

Overview:
A black comedy dealing with oedipal conflicts, burning hot pizza and disfigurement. A tracking camera reveals a sleeping man named Melvin. In a period-piece dream (of his own childhood?) we see a young mother with a baby carriage and an older, heavy-set man with a cigar. When the carriage rolls down a staircase toward the man, his bulk fortunately stops it and saves the baby. Later, they meet again at a pizza parlor, where hot cheese from the slice he orders inadvertently slides in slow motion onto the baby. The dreamer awakens with a start revealing a face marred by burn scars. Showing the traumatic memory from the pizza parlor

Director:
William Kent

Runtime:
0h 5min

Genre:
Comedy, Drama, Thriller

• Cast:
• 
  Carolyn Beauchamp
  as
  Mother
• 
  Garry Bronko Ray
• 
  Dai Kornberg
  as
  Pizza Man
• 
  Ed Hubert
• 
  Gary Ray
  as
  Melvin the Dreamer-terrified sleeper