Directed by Doug Karr Initial release 30 January 2004 (Canada) Screenplay Doug Karr Story by Sierra Bellows | Cinematography Robert MacDonald Director Doug Karr Music director David Scott | |
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Produced by Sierra Bellows
Doug Karr
Rick Saulnier
Emmerson Denney Written by Sierra Bellows
Doug Karr Starring Andy Jones
David Huband
Tara Slone
Joe Cobden Edited by Sierra Bellows
Doug Karr Cast Tara Slone, Andy Jones, David Huband, Joe Cobden, Sierra Bellows Similar Lifecycles: A Story of AIDS in M, Anniversary Present, Long Gone Day, Live Once - Die Twice, Mama Africa | ||
The Straitjacket Lottery is a 2004 film from writer/director Doug Karr starring Andy Jones, David Huband, Tara Slone and Joe Cobden. When Boris Durban loses a busload of mental health patients, he’ll resort to any means in order to get them back. This 22 minute comedic short, set in urban Nova Scotia, is a window into the erratic world of mental health and the thin line between idiosyncrasy and insanity.
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Boris (Andy Jones), a familiar blue collar worker, is issued his orders for a patient transfer: five mental health patients due at a maximum security facility by eleven o’clock. But when a patient with intense claustrophobia manages to overcome her illness by leading the way for the other patients to escape, Boris is confronted with an empty bus. With the clock ticking, he tries his best to recover the patients, but his attempts are foiled. So, in his compulsion to deliver, Boris decides to fill his quota by enticing some unsuspecting civilians onto the bus.