Short film

Rotten Apples
2026 · 12 min
A cringe-comic sprint through vanity and obligation, funny and uncomfortable in equal measure, with a quiet ache underneath.
- Directed by
- Sean Finan
- Starring
- Bernard Cuffling, Steve Galid Amazzal, Helena Weibe
- Overview
- When Eddie, a successful but insecure actor, is saddled with his Alzheimer's-stricken father after he’s kicked out of Rotten Apples, a nursing home for emotionally inept old men, he must figure out the fastest way to get rid of him—in time for his life-changing Zoom audition with Darren Aronofsky, a role which could finally get him the Award he has always dreamed of.
- How it feels
- Satirical, absurd, cynical and melancholic. Brisk and needs your attention.
- About
- Family, ambition, aging, identity
- Content
- Mild language. No violence, gore or sexual content.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Sean Finan
- Starring
- Bernard Cuffling, Steve Galid Amazzal, Helena Weibe

