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THE REAL THING

By Charlie FINK

BLANK PAGE PICTURES - as PROD

Thriller - Completed 2023

A lonely guy faces a race against time to rid his apartment of a dark secret following a surprisingly successful date.

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BFI London FF 2024

Shorts programme

BFI London FF 2024

Shorts Programmes

- Year of production
- 2023
- Genres
- Thriller, Comedy
- Countries
- UNITED KINGDOM
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Budget
- 0 - 0.3 M$
- Duration
- 14 mn
- Director(s)
- Charlie FINK
- Writer(s)
- Charlie FINK
- Cast
- Susan WOKOMA, Thomas GRAY
- Producer(s)
- Maëva DEMURGER (Blank Page Pictures)
- Synopsis
- Danny and Julia hit it off on their app-arranged date. Julia's suggestion to ‘go somewhere’ excites Danny, but when she proposes his place, he becomes skittish, attributing it to a messy apartment. Agreeing to Julia's compromise to visit in an hour, Danny rushes home to tackle his real problem: a life-sized, ultra-realistic sex doll.
  
  With nowhere to store the doll and fearful of being seen dragging a body out his apartment, he turns to the doll company for help, who, after some sales pitches, offer an ‘off the books’ disposal service. An ‘engineer’, Pete, arrives with a variety of tools, but his assistance turns into a blackmail plot involving captured photos and purchase emails. After a heated confrontation, Danny, in fear for his life, fatally strikes Pete, leaving him with two bodies to get rid of - one real and one silicone.
  
  Frantically dismembering and packing both bodies into a suitcase, Danny is interrupted by Julia's timely arrival. Misreading Danny's reluctance to let her in as fear of intimacy, she reassures him, creating a tense exchange. Danny is able to deter Julia from his door and while he continues with his grim task, Julia heads back to her flat, revealing that she too shares the same eccentric possession: a life-sized, ultra-realistic sex doll.

THE REAL THING

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