Short Stay

2016 · 61 MIN · IMDB 6.5 · DIR. Ted Fendt

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Overview

Mike may always be wandering, but you’d hardly call him a man on the move. His stamping ground is modest, the strip of suburbia between his mom’s house in New Jersey and the pizza place where he works. Mike’s no great conversationalist and isn’t big on direction either, preferring to let things happen than making them happen himself. Feeding a neighbour’s dog, bumping into a friend, catching a hockey game: all just different reasons to trudge along the same wintry streets, unhurried, ungainly, alone. One day, opportunity knocks. Mike bumps into his old school friend Mark, who asks Mike to take over his walking tour job and Philadelphia apartment during his trip to Poland. A change of season, a change of scene, a change of fortune? The streets Mike now wanders through are different and the sun is shining, but otherwise it’s the same old story: new people and new encounters, laced with the usual awkwardness and inertia.

Dialogue Timeline — 739 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:00:32 Hello, Villa Rosa.
00:04:07 - You bartend? - I need a job.
00:07:39 So, you're working at the Villa Rosa now?
00:10:21 Oh, well, uh, welcome.
00:11:50 - I'm going to Poland. - He's going to Poland.
00:13:19 And Bobby Clarke came.
00:16:12 and it was like, "I'm deaf, but I overcame obstacles."
00:18:48 - See the new tattoo I got? - No.
00:20:28 Oh, that's great. Yeah. Maybe I'll take one some day.
00:24:34 That'd be nice. It's just that the train takes forever this late.
00:27:01 How you been? It's been a while.
00:28:54 But I think it's that way to the left.
00:31:06 I'm a stage crew at the Wilma?
00:34:02 I actually went in to speak to the local parish priest about it for the first time,
00:36:11 Yeah.
00:37:47 I mean, it wouldn't be a big deal if you left, right?
00:39:11 So, I, like, rushed over there.
00:41:57 Hey, I think I left something here. Can I come look for it?
00:44:32 Oh, yeah! Where was I?
00:48:54 - Hey, how's it going? - Good, how you doing?
00:50:39 Look for another job?
00:53:07 to 52nd Street,
00:56:00 Yeah.
00:58:43 I'll try not to.

Cast & Characters

Mike MacCherone Mike
Elizabeth Soltan Liz
Mark Simmons Mark
Marta Sicinska Marta
Meaghan Lydon Meg
Dan Faro Dan
Calvin Engime Cal
Rob Fini Rob

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed739
Dialogue density12.1 lines / min
First line00:00:32
Final line00:58:43

Production Record

DirectorTed Fendt
LanguageEnglish

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