Meal Ticket
2025 · 13m
Directed by Wes Andre Goodrich
Tones: contemplative, tense
An aspiring rap star’s breakthrough gig is minutes away when a negative story reaches his manager, who must decide whether to pass it on knowing it could change not just the evening but entire careers.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
A morality-play thriller about a manager deciding whether to bury a story—it's competent, but the premise plays it entirely straight, and there's nothing here that resists what you'd expect a film about institutional betrayal to do.
The film understands the weight of a decision in real time, positioning itself in the lineage of pressure-cooker dramas where form mirrors stakes; the question is whether the editing and performances earn that formal restraint.
The entire film hinges on whether we read the manager's silence—the exact moment they choose not to speak—as resignation, complicity, or mercy, and whatever Goodrich does with that micro-gesture is the film.
Reviews
Im gleichbenannten Kurzfilm von Wes Andre Goodrich ist das ein angehender Rapstar, dessen eventueller Durchbruch-Gig in wenigen Minuten ansteht. Doch dann gelangt eine negative Nachricht an dessen Manager, der im Zwiespalt darüber ist, ob er diese Informationen an den Musiker weitergeben soll, im Wissen, dass das nicht nur den Abend, sondern ggf. komplette Karrieren verändern könnte.