24 Hours After Reading Tuesdays with Morrie
2025 · 10m
Directed by Scott Tinkham
Genres: comedy, dark comedy
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, melancholic
After finishing Mitch Albom’s bestselling memoir Tuesdays with Morrie, a man named Leonard is seized by an overwhelming existential awakening. He wanders wide-eyed through the world, marveling at palm trees and feeling the profound interconnectedness of all life, losing his girlfriend and alarming passersby — until someone intervenes violently to snap him out of it. Inspired by true events.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
A guy refuses to come down from his Tuesdays-with-Morrie awakening until somebody beats it out of him — one-joke premise milked correctly into a Malick voiceover parody, and the Vimeo comments suggest it lands. Compact bit, well-executed.
A sustained single-joke parody of Malickian cosmic voiceover triggered by Mitch Albom is a precise comic operation — the danger is wearing thin, but the form is the joke. The audience response on Vimeo suggests it lands.
Nine minutes thirty-nine sustaining and escalating a single absurdist premise — parodying Malick's floaty voiceover style as a man refuses to come back down from a book-induced epiphany — is exactly the right runtime for a one-joke short to keep paying out. 50K views and Vimeo Mature tag suggests the violence-as-punchline lands.
Reviews
Tinkham’s film might be a one-joke odyssey, but it’s a joke I don’t often see played out.
Festivals
- SXSW Film Festival 2025