A widowed mortician, struggling with agoraphobia, is given a birthday gift from her mother and daughter as a joke. The gift, a life-size male doll named Pedro, goes from funny to fantastical, complicating her ties with her family as well as a budding relationship with a documentary Filmmaker.
Acting
Myndy Crist makes mortician + agoraphobia + doll romance feel devastatingly real.
Writing
Dialogue that treats female loneliness as comedy AND tragedy simultaneously.
Director
Cyrus Mirakhor
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Cyrus Mirakhor made this after years in reality TV, explaining the mockumentary threads with the filmmaker character.
Released the same year as 'Lars and the Real Girl' comparisons were inevitable, but this centers female desire rather than male healing—a radical flip.
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