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A Cigar at the Beach   [Original Title]

A Cigar at the Beach   [Assigned Title]
  • video
Country of Origin: United States
Year of origin: 2006
Genre: Short Film
Locations of shooting: n/a

Credits
Screenplay: Stephen Keep Mills
Director: Stephen Keep Mills

Actor: Billy Gillespie (The Smoker)
  Cathy Shim (Ariel)
  Rumi Bunya (Faye)
  Svetlana Efremova (Woman in White)
  Stephanie Nash (Wife)
  Charlie Schmidt (Jason)
  Martin Clark (MARINER #1)
  William Joseph Hill (MARINER #2)
  Jermaine Jackson (MARINER #3)
  Radu Vlad (MARINER #4)
Director (other): Ron Pereira
Director of photography: Michael Alba
Editing: Tamera Martin
Sound: Gerald Albright
Music: Milen Kirov
Producer: Tamera Martin
  Stephen Keep Mills
Executive producer: Daniel Dubiecki

Keywords: Dream, Journey, Loneliness, Love, Relationship
On a family trip to Florida to visit his sick father, The Smoker (Billy Gillespie) leaves his napping, pregnant wife (Stephanie Nash) and his iPod addicted step-son (Charlie Schmidt) in the motel room for a cigar at the beach. As a storm approaches, The Smoker pulls up a chair to the water’s edge, smokes his cigar, and begins to pretend. At once, two high-octane Bikini-clad Asian tourists (Cathy Shim, Rumi Bunya) catch him off-guard and on-camera as they play and pose for the drugstore Kodaks they carry. As they begin to undress, The Smoker conjures up a more mature romance, The Woman in White (Svetlana Efremova) for an exotic and erotic encounter. As they begin to make love, The Smoker gets the call from a distant Freighter and is instantly playing poker in the ship’s belly with four Mariners from distant lands (Martin Clark, William Joseph Hill, Jermaine Jackson, Radu Vlad). The insight that their obsession with women echoes his own and has rendered them all quite mad drives The Smoker from the game. He retreats into a corrected (but unsustainable) vision of his own family. Then he sees—the wave. Huge, swelling, mystifying, the wave grips The Smoker in a wish for release. The Smoker walks into the towering wave which crashes over him. The sea becomes calm. The Smoker’s chair is empty.

Version 1
Language: eng
Sound: Sound film
Aspect: 1:1,85
Duration: 00:15:33

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Language: eng
Sound: Sound film
Aspect: 16:9
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Aspect: 16:9
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