2008,
Comedy, 81 mins.
Directed by Mark Kenneth Woods
Forever single
and desperate on her 40th birthday, homely Deborah Dyer (Mark Kenneth
Woods) tries everything she can to “suicide herself”.
But all attempts fail as fate sends her car swerving right into
Sisi Sickles (Michael Venus), a recently evicted forty-something
promiscuous waitress.
Seeing an opportunity
for a quick buck, Sisi hastily begins to take advantage of naïve
Deb and is soon at Deb’s doorstep with a “broken umbilical
cord or two”. Stricken with guilt, a clueless and lonely Deb
postpones her self-destructive plans to take care of Sisi.
Things run hilariously
amok when the two women grow closer and develop the only real friendship
either of them has ever had. Who needs a man (or a job) anyways,
right?
Mark Kenneth
Woods writes, directs and acts in his feature film debut based on
characters from his hit sketch comedy television series The
House of Venus Show. He describes his film as “something
like Absolutely Fabulous mixed with John Waters and featuring
something like the cast of Kids in the Hall if they had
just escaped a mental institution...in drag." |