Wasp

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Zoë is a single mother who lives with her four young children in Dartford. She is poor and can't afford to buy them food. One day an old friend she secretly fancied years ago drives by and a... Read allZoë is a single mother who lives with her four young children in Dartford. She is poor and can't afford to buy them food. One day an old friend she secretly fancied years ago drives by and asks her to go on a date with him. Scared that he'll change his mind if he finds out they'r... Read allZoë is a single mother who lives with her four young children in Dartford. She is poor and can't afford to buy them food. One day an old friend she secretly fancied years ago drives by and asks her to go on a date with him. Scared that he'll change his mind if he finds out they're her kids, she lies and tells him that she is just babysitting. This will be her first da... Read all

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Won 1 Oscar
- 22 wins & 1 nomination total

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Zoë is a single mother who lives with her four young children in Dartford. She is poor and can't afford to buy them food. One day an old friend she secretly fancied years ago drives by and asks her to go on a date with him. Scared that he'll change his mind if he finds out they're her kids, she lies and tells him that she is just babysitting. This will be her first date in years. —Rhodry

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Genres
- Short
- Drama
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Trivia
Sound recordist Neil Robert Herd plays guitar and sings in alt-bluegrass band The Coal Porters.

Connections
Featured in The 77th Annual Academy Awards (2005)

Soundtracks
5, 6, 7, 8
Written by Barry Upton and Steve Crosby
Published by Cordella Music Ltd/Zomba Music Publishers Ltd/All Boys Music Ltd
Performed by Steps
Courtesy of Jive

Top review

extraordinary and exceptional

This really is an extraordinary and exceptional film. Gritty, real, touching and also incredibly tense and full of suspense. The free flowing nature of the camera-work adds to the already vivid realism, almost docudrama style. As a viewer you are drawn into this impoverished and deprived world, you feel immediate empathy for the central character in her desperate situation. She shows warmth, love and humanity to her children side by side with an appalling judgement about their well-being and safety. She is wonderfully contrasting yet totally believable and genuine.

It's a true eye opener of a film. Certainly one of the best short films I have ever seen. Worth going out of your way too see.

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