The life of an overweight, unhappy cook is forever changed after a kind, beautiful college drop-out comes to work as a waitress at he and his mother's roadside restaurant.
Victor is a cook who works in a greasy bar/restaurant owned by his mother, Dolly. It's just the two of them, a waitress named Delores, and a heavy drinking regular, Leo. But things change when Callie, a beautiful college drop-out, shows up as a new waitress and steals Victor's heart. But Victor is too shy to do anything about it, and too self-consciously overweight to dream of winning Callie away from her demanding boyfriend, Jeff. Victor's terrible loneliness overwhelms him when he has to face losing what he loves the most.
Written by Martin Lewison <lewison+@pitt.edu>
Charles Thompson (aka Frank Black) of the Pixies says on a deleted scene of
loudQUIETloud: A Film About the Pixies, that he was approached for the part of Victor. He turned it down, saying he "didn't want to play that type of character".
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Grey Man in Hospital:
You're as big as an ox and no one sees you. I am the same way, I am loud and no one hears me, but when I whisper everyone looks around like something happened. See more »