10 Till Midnight

Written by: Johnny Eh

Ten till Midnight is a fast-paced dark comedy about the last ten minutes of nine characters lives before a bomb explodes in a diner that they are all in.

Mike is a distracted screenwriter with no script who begins to `make-up` a story with the events that are unfolding around him in the diner; he is pitching his story to:
Tina, who is a talent agent and smitten with Mike and uses her foot to try and bring a `climax` to the pitch, she watches:
The Cook, an old-world Russian immigrant who is fed up with his son:
Jozef, who wants to burn down the diner and make it into a lounge, he closely watches:
Candy who is a fat street-kid who is terrified of his partner:
Buzz, who wants to rob the diner until he sees a:
Cop who comes into the diner and snatches a newspaper with Jozef plans on it; he watches:
Lucy, a twenty yr old beauty who is in the telephone booth at the back of the diner awaiting news of her pregnancy test; she is pissed at her boyfriend:
Chris, a pocket revolutionary, who decides to plant a bomb and destroy his apartment along with his landlord's diner upstairs; he is sent into a quandary when he realizes that his girlfriend is upstairs on the phone.

Ten till Midnight is all about personal agendas, how simple decisions made by each of the characters influence the actions of the others. It's like fatalistic domino.

Bio:
Johnny A is an award winning film maker from Toronto. He is an actor, writer, director and cinematographer. He has shot films like The Hulk, K-19, 16 Blocks and the new Disney series Aaron Stone. 7 Diamonds is his first narrative short. www.johnea.com

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