Screenplay AFIN 128
Check Out Diner
Written by Eamonn Eeles
AFIN 2022 Nominee
- 2022
- 33pp
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Australia - English
- Comedy
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Synopsis
Broken hearted and broke Kevin decides to end it all at the check out diner guided reluctantly by his ex-wife. Only the law, the cartels and new love can possibly change his mind.
Writer's Statement
I wrote this script as I also work in medicine where the importance of saving lives is rendered abstract by euthanasia. I wanted to explore euthanasia for a flawed motive using black comedy and show how there may sometimes still be light in a seemingly bleak place. But, ultimately, the script is about grief and how loss can take people to the darkest of places and, by quirk of fate, that light can be found in the most unlikely of places.
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Also selected at
1 official selection across 1 other festival
- SelectionRiservati Pictures Film
Recorded by the filmmaker on their entry.
Writer's Biography
Eamonn Eeles Writer
Eamonn is a keen writer when not trying to solve the hard problem of consciousness and being walked by his dogs.
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Check Out Diner was an official Nominee for Best Short Screenplay at the AFIN International Film Festival 2022, a Top 100 Best Reviewed and IMDb-qualifying festival.
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