Wet Mouth
2022 · 4m · USA
Directed by Duncan Dickerson
Genres: comedy
Tones: absurdist, humorous, surreal
A cannabis-shop inventory specialist samples a new strain that promises to cure dry mouth. It works, and then it doesn't stop working.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
Four minutes, one bit, fully committed, exactly the runtime this premise deserves and not a second more. Stoner cinema doesn't have to be lazy and this proves it.
A four-minute single-joke escalation about saliva that runs exactly 4:20 is a stoner-comedy gesture so committed to its bit it earns a smile. Modest ambitions, modest pleasures.
4:20 runtime gag, single-joke escalation about saliva — premise is committed but I'd want to see the slow-burn pacing to know if the patience earns the punchline. Dickerson's structural discipline is the load-bearing wall.