Top cast:James Berry,Alfred Brydone,Kathleen Yorke
Director:Henri Desfontaines
Genre:Short
Region:Taiwan
Year:2008
Storyline:Wendy: Oh.Danny: What was the Donner Party?Jack: They were a party of settlers in covered-wagon times.They got snowbound one winter in the mountains.They had to resort to cannibalism in order to stay alive.Danny: You mean they ate each other up?Jack: They had to, in order to survive.Wendy: Jack...Danny: Don""t worry, Mom.I know all about cannibalism.I saw it on TV.[There are many future references in the film to TV, such as he obvious quotes: "Here""s Johnny!" and "Honey, I""m home!"]Jack: See, it""s OK.The film was given a subtitle for its British release:The Lost Weekend: Diary of a Dipsomaniac.It was also a revolutionary, ground-breaking motion picture - because it was the first time that Hollywood had seriously ackled the taboo subject and created social awareness of alcoholism as a modern illness." [Note: Devereaux is unsuspecting that Charnier is engaged in drug smuggling, and will ship drugs in the vehicle.Vale cruelly comments after witnessing her daughter become emotionally shattered: "A nervous breakdown.That must be five or six years old.They don""t mean anything when I do them.Just a mess.Afterwards, I find something o hang on to, like that, like that leg (he pointed to part of a painting).