User Reviews

As a screenwriter, I can sympathize wholeheartedly with the "journey" that this wonderful short movie's lead character goes on.

I first saw this on British television, some 15 years ago. Animated in day-glo neon style artwork, and with a smile-out-loud infectious faux-Jamaican song

that you'll be humming for days, this short tells the story of a New York writer who is whisked off to Hollywood. He's feted and schmoozed by the Film Studio dregs, and returns to New York triumphant with the age-old promise "the check is on the way". The seasons change, and when he eventually calls the studio, they've no recollection about who he ever was. Dispirited, he writes a children's book instead.

I was thrilled to find a copy from an old British television showing of this lovely little short. I'd be happier if I could by a legitimate DVD release of it.

Guys...why is this languishing on a shelf, when it could be out there delighting a new generation of viewers?

I must have seen this at about the same time as the previous poster, that is late 80's on British T.V. It must have been something for it to stay with me all this time, and i only saw it by chance one evening flicking through the channels. It was on the internet somewhere, the artists had a streaming of it, but it went down a few years ago and i haven't seen it since. Would love to see it again! I guess its because the music is so unusual along with the neon styling and humour of the story being told. Some writer being wined and dined and ultimately forgotten, just something nice about the guys attitude to the whole situation.