Schmuck

2013, 20 minutes

Short film about genies and lamps and life.

SCHMUCK! is the life changing story of Jack who buys an Ancient Greek lamp from a car-boot sale. Little does he know that the Greek lamp comes with its own Genie who turns his life upside down... Poor Jack! With an interest in antiques, he snakes his way through the maze of a sub-urban car-boot sale looking for, well, whatever! He stumbles upon what looks like an Ancient Greek lamp which has the word SCHMUCK written in the bottom with a gold marker. When he gets home, he tries to erase the writting from the lamp but lo and behold! A knock on the door....

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