Synopsis for
My Yacht (2006) More at IMDbPro »

Ben (Tom Wontner), a wannabe filmmaker marooned outside the Festival's charmed circle of power and influence, pretends to be a yacht-owning big producer to impress hopeful actress Laura (Anna Neil), the woman of his dreams. She responds to the idealistic romantic she sees in him, but is less enamoured of his attempts to play the big shot. He is aided and abetted in this by his cynical friend Jason (Huck Melnick), who embarks on a mirror-image relationship with Laura's friend Fiona (Berri George), explaining away his obvious "loser" status by affecting to despise the superficiality of Cannes.

While trying to keep the pretence going, Ben finds himself being mistaken for a real producer at the super-fancy Hotel du Cap, and in the process secures an invitation onto a yacht. Meanwhile Laura is falling for the man as well as the scam, but when he gets her onto "his" yacht Ben takes things too far by cutting Jason dead, and just as she leaves him he is exposed as a fake.

But the scam has impressed Harvey Rhinestone (Stephen Szklarski) the biggest fish in the pond, who duly sets him up with the glitzy lifestyle to go with the dealmaking -- in this town there's obviously no difference between faking it and being it. However his success seems empty without Laura, but when he tries to show her that now he really is a big producer she angrily rejects him.

Disillusioned, he sinks further into decadence. But then, suddenly reminded of Laura, he realises he has sold his soul, and decides to give it all up. About to leave Cannes, loveless, friendless, having thrown it all away, he chances upon the magically graceful street performer he'd passed on the Croisette at the very beginning; she is none other than Laura. Finally seeing the real him, she stops in mid-turn. Their look of mutual recognition is full of emotion and, on her part, forgiveness.