Working Man
2014, 14 minutes
The last of the true working men.
WORKING MAN SYNOPSIS Jacob is depressed; He's drinking and smoking and won't leave the house. He left his job because his colleagues found out what he does with his weekends and wouldn't stop teasing him about it. So his girlfriend, Shelley, has brought in a documentary camera crew to film and follow Jacob around so everyone can see Jacob does for them, and he can finally get the respect she thinks he deserves. But Jacob is Shy, and seemingly embarrassed, about revealing his secret to the camera, and then a gift from Shelley suddenly fills him with new life and fire to follow his calling, and he dives obsessively into becoming the best at what he does . Unfortunately the extremes to which Jacob starts 'training' begins to annoy the hell out of Shelley: begging on the street, hording coins like they were gold, making up a bunch of weird methods of training himself, Jacob drives his once supportive girlfriend so far up the wall she finally leaves him. But Jacob won't be derailed, he's has been put on this earth for one thing and nothing will stop him from doing that! After a long absence, Jacob is ready to go out again. The sun goes down, Jacob dresses up like a cat burglar, ventures out with the camera crew following, and creeps into someone's bedroom. The documentary camera crew record Jacob replacing a little child's tooth with money, under their pillow while they sleep, glowing wings on his back, before exiting back out through the window in which they came. Determined and no longer afraid, the next morning Jacob finally, and proudly, exclaims to the camera crew 'I am a tooth fairy.'
