A Slice Of Life

Overview

A black comedy dealing with oedipal conflicts, burning hot pizza and disfigurement. A tracking camera reveals a sleeping man named Melvin. In a period-piece dream (of his own childhood?) we see a young mother with a baby carriage and an older, heavy-set man with a cigar. When the carriage rolls down a staircase toward the man, his bulk fortunately stops it and saves the baby. Later, they meet again at a pizza parlor, where hot cheese from the slice he orders inadvertently slides in slow motion onto the baby. The dreamer awakens with a start revealing a face marred by burn scars. Showing the traumatic memory from the pizza parlor

Directed by William Kent

Top cast

Carolyn Beauchamp

Mother

G

Garry Bronko Ray

D

Dai Kornberg

Pizza Man

E

Ed Hubert

Gary Ray

Melvin the Dreamer-terrified sleeper

A

Ara Romanoff

Heavy-Set man

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