You've Been Chosen
2026 · 10m · USA
Directed by Ben Scott
Genres: comedy, dark comedy
Tones: darkly comic, humorous, tense
Frank, a self-sabotaging scammer in a bedazzled blazer, tries to sell fake $5 acting classes in Times Square — handing out flyers, ducking confrontations, and eventually running unhinged acting exercises on his marks.
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The scouts
Guerrilla scammer cinema with a real Times Square crowd as the unwitting co-star — Scott commits hard enough that it stops being a bit and starts being a character study. Subversive in the best way.
Guerrilla Times Square scammer comedy — Nathan Fielder field-segment energy with a bedazzled blazer is a real proposition, but the form is well-worn enough that execution carries everything. Hopeful but watchful.
Guerrilla-shot in actual Times Square with a bedazzled-blazer scammer running fake $5 acting classes — that texture is impossible to fake and the bunny-suit drug interlude alone earns the ticket. Sounds chaotic in the productive way.
Reviews
Gets a lot of mileage from its guerrilla filming in the heart of Times Square and intense performances led by Scott, portraying a man both crazily committed and conniving.