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Funeral Brain

🎞️ Movie --
2014

The short opens on three gangsters, Roscoe, Shoulder, and Jorts, surrounding a man tied to a chair, Ken. They interrogate him for information he doesn't seem to have. Meanwhile, Wren is dumping her boyfriend, Craig and he isn't taking it well. Roscoe accidentally fires his gun through the wall between Ken and Wren's apartments, shooting Craig dead. As the EMTs cart out his body, a bit of his brain falls to the floor. Wren calls up his mom, Mrs. Golding, and she comes to stay with Wren while funeral arrangements are being made, but she is a constant source of annoyance to Wren. The day of the funeral comes, and they arrive at the funeral home, but Wren goes for a walk before the funeral starts. She stumbles upon the gangsters from before, and pummels them to the ground while venting about Mrs. Golding and Craig. Mrs. Golding overhears this and bans her from the funeral. Wren returns home, and slips on Craig's brain, knocking herself out in the fall. She wakes to find his ghost in her apartment, and the two come to terms with their breakup. Wren wakes up to see she's late for the funeral, and rushes out on her scooter. She arrives at the graveyard to find he's already buried, but she collapses on the grave to make peace. Elsewhere, the gangsters are walking with Ken. Roscoe lets him go free, and invites him to join their gang, to show them how to be real gangsters. He accepts and they join up. Returning to Wren and Mrs. Golding, we see them walking home in a storm. Through the rain, Wren sees Craig's ghost. They wave to each other, parting for the final time.

Cast

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Judy Wong
Wren
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Jonathan Reinglas
Roscoe
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Fanny Maire
Mrs. Golding
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Chris Jarry
Ken
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Jason Kettle
Craig Golding
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Nicolas Paquin
Shoulder
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Dylanna Kiely
Jorts
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Sam Edgerton
Cinematographer