Gay, middle-aged, unemployed and living with his overbearing mother in a dilapidated house badly in need of repair, its no wonder Mark (Ryan Farley) is suicidal. He spends his days pottering around the house being nagged by his mother ( Carol Lambert) into doing odd-jobs. At night he spends his time fixing the projector so that he can play all the family’s old home movies. Its from these we can see his troubled childhood and his parents very nasty break-up and divorce and how it really affected him.
However when his mother sends him out on errand one day, driving past his neighbors he spots Ted (Lance A. Williams) a shirtless hunky Puerto Rican landscaper : the type that would make anyone go weak at the knees. Mark does nothing but just look, but a few nights later when he goes out to the Town’s only gay club there’s the cute landscaper sitting at the bar. Their eyes meet and they stare at each other but Mark is unable to make a move and just leaves.
Fast forward a couple of days and Mark is at home and hears his mother talking to someone in the garden. It’s Ted who his penny-pinching mother is employing to fix the house because his rates are cheap. However it’s no great surprise later on when we discover it’s not just the house that Ted is going to work on.
This cute wee movie just 31 mins long based on a stage play by David Lally and directed by Jeff Bemiss seemed appropriate to view right now when we all need as much hope as possible. And not just for a ‘Ted’ to turn up to fix everything…..
