Portrait (2004/I)

Director:

Jordan Scott

Writers:

David Carter (written by)
Eric Frost (story)

Genre:

Comedy | Short

Plot:

Esther is an overweight, junk food addicted office lady who is constantly mistreated by her fellow co-workers until one day her life (and body) is transformed when her portrait is taken by an unknown photographer named Bud.

Plot Keywords:

Overweight Woman | Amazon Theater | Product Placement | Obese Woman

Cast

Amanda Detmer	...	Esther
Jacqueline Anderson	...	Erica
Minnie Driver	...	Donna
Sabra Miller	...	Caroline
Rebecca Beluk	...	Answering Machine Caller
Jeff Hahn	...	Fun Run Guy
Reggie Currelley	...	Mike
Fran McGivern	...	Narrator

Runtime:

9 min | USA:8 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Trivia:

This was the first film released as part of Amazon Theater, "a series of five original short films available exclusively at Amazon.com as a free gift to our customers." It became available for viewing on 9 November 2004. Each film featured and then listed products in the credits that could be purchased at the site. The films were sponsored by Chase, issuer of the Amazon Platinum Visa Card.

cute!

this is a really cute short little film. It's very light and very funny. Everyone plays their character really well and that's good because u start loving Amanda Detmers character. and you automatically hate the others in such a short period of time! It reminds me of high school. but in an office. It's definitely a good fairy tail story to real life story. Very cute and it takes like what? 5 minutes of your time! check it out. even if it was a bad movie (and i'm not saying it is) it's like 5 minutes. This film can be found at amazon.com. It took me awhile to find it. But it's worth it. Also, if you go back to a page called "minnie driver's holiday page", you'll see like a clip of her talking about the film, her cd, and her charity organization thingy.