When Samson and Delilah pack up for school like dutiful children, Mom and Dad employ their own adolescent diversions to try to keep them at home. A whimsical role-reversal story with enough love to go around.
Acting
Sam Rockwell commits fully to man-child tantrum. Mary McCormack matches chaos.
Direction
Leif Tilden packs a feature's worth of weird into ten minutes.
Director
Leif Tilden
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was early career Emma Roberts at age 10, same year as Blow—she's been serving deadpan since forever.
Premiered at Sundance 2001, part of that era's wave of quirky relationship shorts that peaked with The Big Short's director Adam McKay getting his start in similar spaces.
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