Top cast:Yale Boss,William Bechtel,Laura Sawyer
Director:Alfred Machin
Genre:Film-Noir
Region:Iran
Year:2006
Storyline:Seen only at hip level, one of the men [Keys] reaches down and carefully picks up one of the strange colored "eggs" with his thumb and index finger and lifts it out of the frame to examine it.What are you going to do now?Ben: I was going to go upstairs for a minute.Guests: I meant with your future, your life.Ben: Well, that""s a little hard to say.Ben is hesitant, embarrassed by all the attention, and lacking in social graces.By the family swimming pool, Ben receives words of advice from Mr.McGuire (Walter Brooke), a family friend, in one of the most memorable lines from film history:Mr.McGuire:I just want to say one word o you - just one word.Ben: Yes sir.Mr.McGuire: Are you listening?Ben: Yes I am.Mr.McGuire:""Plastics.""Ben: Exactly how do you mean?Mr.McGuire: There""s a great future in plastics.Think about it.Will you think about it?Ben: Yes I will.Mr.McGuire: Shh! Enough said.That""s a deal.[In fact, history would prove Mr.McGuire""s advice o be prescient and wise!] Sweating and unable to take any more badgering and unwanted advice, feeling generally repugnant of the upper middle-class values that surround him, Ben realizes that he is totally estranged from the financial measures of value that are being thrust upon him for his future.Quite a few of the smaller supporting roles were played by venerable actors, such as Ralph Bellamy (as Rosemary""s Dr.At a tea party, in her first public testing, she blurted out, "Not bloody likely" and scandalized the attendees.