"The Lunch Date" is a 10-minute black-and-white short film from over 25 years ago that made writer and director Adam Davidson an Academy Award winner in his 20s already. He is still working as a filmmaker today, for example for "Community", but he never reached the success of this, his first film again, actually took a break from directing for almost 10 years after this short film and never even wrote another movie. I cannot say I am too surprised. While this movie has an entertaining plot twist at the end, it is still not too memorable and everything that happens before it is really mediocre. Yes it is a nice lesson on sharing and caring, but still. Overall, it was an okay watch and I give it a thumbs up. Woorth checking out, but probably not Oscar-worthy. Also I remember having watched an Eastern European (Latvia/Lithuania perhaps?) short film at some point in the past that had a fairly similar story, but was made way more recently. I am sure this was inspired at least by this one here. Anyway, "The Lunch Date" gets a cautious thumbs-up from me.
Review of The Lunch Date
