Short film

Outrageous Fortune
2024 · 14 min
A quiet, reflective short that lets you sit inside an actor's restless mind before the curtain rises.
- Directed by
- Lucas Booth
- Genres
- Drama
- Starring
- Lucas Booth, JJ Willis, Victoria Kmiec
- Tagline
- All the world's a stage.
- Overview
- Outrageous Fortune follows the evening of an actor’s life before his performance of the titular role in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. His drab reality influences his emotional performance, as his current existence seems to reflect Hamlet’s.
- How it feels
- Slow-burning and needs your attention.
- About
- Identity, art, obsession, isolation
- 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
- Lucas Booth
- Genres
- Drama
- Starring
- Lucas Booth, JJ Willis, Victoria Kmiec


