Card Shark
2022 · 10m · USA
Directed by Alex Fabry
Tones: dark, darkly comic, tense
Inside a pizzeria, Mims tries to offload a vintage Hank Aaron card on Joyce — until he doubles the price mid-deal and starts asking questions he has no business asking. A small-stakes negotiation that tips into something uglier.
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Nobody talks enough about how pizzerias are the natural habitat of the small-time grifter. Fabry knows, and he lets the price hike sit in the room like a fart.
Alex Fabry stages a Hank Aaron card sale like a hostage negotiation in a sweltering pizzeria — Uncut Gems in miniature, and the room temperature does most of the work. Lean and well-tuned.
A baseball-card transaction staged like a hostage negotiation, in a sweltering pizzeria, with Mims doubling the price mid-deal — Alex Fabry knows where the tension actually lives.
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Fabry's fascination with schemers and those caught up in the crosshairs.