A Slice Of Life

Overview

A black comedy dealing with oedipal conflicts, burning hot pizza and disfigurement. A tracking camera reveals a sleeping man named Melvin. In a period-piece dream (of his own childhood?) we see a young mother with a baby carriage and an older, heavy-set man with a cigar. When the carriage rolls down a staircase toward the man, his bulk fortunately stops it and saves the baby. Later, they meet again at a pizza parlor, where hot cheese from the slice he orders inadvertently slides in slow motion onto the baby. The dreamer awakens with a start revealing a face marred by burn scars. Showing the traumatic memory from the pizza parlor

Cast

Carolyn Beauchamp

Mother

Garry Bronko Ray

Dai Kornberg

Pizza Man

Ed Hubert

Gary Ray

Melvin the Dreamer-terrified sleeper

Ara Romanoff

Heavy-Set man