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Just Me and Mario

1989 Short film
  • Drama
  • Comedy
  • Fantasy
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Director Greg Stitt's 50 minute film features Mark Hadlow playing Kevin, a pie cart worker obsessed with  singer Mario Lanza. Kevin's idolatry turns into an identity crisis, as operatic-scale fantasising clashes with his meek disposition. Further complications arise from a friendship with his brash punk neighbour, and from stage fright ahead of a fundraiser for Kev's Lanza fan club (Lanza also had a noteworthy teenage fan club in Heavenly Creatures). Will Kev get his Susan Boyle moment? Sitt wrote the black comedy with Scarecrow scribe Michael Heath.

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