Day Release

1997, 84 minutes

They said nothing could go wrong in just one day.

When the stress of running a large business in an increasingly competative world becomes too much to bear, JEFF BAKER's wife and associates conspire to have him sectioned under the Mental Health Act 1983. Now,six months later, he is entitled to an informal Mental Health Review Tribunal to determine his fitness to return to society. Initially the panel recommend a condition discharge that amounts to granting him little more than 'DAY RELEASE', under the naive assumption that nothing could possibly go wrong in just one day. But the intervening months have reeked havoc on his business and private life. As he attempts to rebuild them he is told that his parents are dead, his kids are shacked up with an obscure cult, his wife has run off with a business partner who had embezzled their company and left the remants in the hands of the Official Receiver, their former accountant. As JEFF accummulates the evidence that is to prove that he and his wife have been mislead, manipulated, cheated and lied to he acquires a strong of witness who all suffer from one phobia or another, leading him to conclude, what the medical professional have known all along, that everyone in the world is neurotic. Having left a trail of mayhem, which includes stealing and crashing an ambulance and a police car, hi-jacking two pensioners, breaking and entering, kidnapping and gate-crashing a celebrity Midsummers Ball, JEFF finally finds himself surrounded by a heavily armed militia and an irate police force bent on charging him with a multitude of crimes. But he's insane!........Isn't he?