The Appointments of Dennis Jennings | |
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Directed by | Dean Parisot |
Written by | Mike Armstrong Steven Wright |
Produced by | Dean Parisot Steven Wright |
Starring |
Steven Wright Rowan Atkinson Laurie Metcalf |
Cinematography | Frank Prinzi |
Edited by | Peter Frank |
Production company | Schooner Productions |
Distributed by | HBO |
Release date |
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Running time | 29 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
The Appointments of Dennis Jennings is a 1988 American short comedy film, starring, co-written and co-produced by Steven Wright, which won the Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film at the 61st Academy Awards in 1988. [1]
Dennis Jennings ( Steven Wright) is an introvert, showing symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder, anxiety, paranoia, and a troubled youth. He works as a waiter and has an indifferent girlfriend, Emma, who only seems to patronize him. The "appointments" are with his psychiatrist ( Rowan Atkinson), who is annoyed with him and uninterested in what he has to say. After finding his doctor sharing Dennis's intimate secrets with a group of fellow psychiatrists at a bar, and then finding that his girlfriend is cheating on him with the doctor, Dennis decides he has had enough. He hunts the doctor, shoots him, and goes to jail afterwards. [2]