They’ll connect with, or without you

Two wary singles go on a first date. But it’s their loud-mouth, high-maintenance, narcissistic inner voices that hit it off.

~ Think *Inside Out**, but with manipulative, belligerent, selfish-ass adults. ~*

Rom-Com Short Film

Meet Lauren

Another day, another date.

Lauren is an elder millennial who never thought she’d still be dating in her forties. But, believing in her “happily ever after”, she rebukes popular conventions about the disasters of the modern-day dating scene, and agrees to go out with Allen.

Unfortunately for Lauren, she has Veronica, the world’s most opinionated wing-woman, by her side; her toxic, domineering, narcissistic inner critic materialized.

Meet Veronica

You’re wearing that?

It's 1988, and Veronica is finally living her best life as a trophy wife. Opulence is her word of the year, "greed is good" is her battle cry, and The Men All Pause is her theme song. In her mind, it’s all Veronica, all the time.

Unfortunately, she has a four-year-old child she’s supposed to be taking care of, her step-daughter, Lauren. These are Lauren’s formative years, and Veronica will make an impact. As a matter of fact, it’s Veronica’s demanding, judgmental voice she’ll hear for the rest of her life.

And she’s loud as hell on Lauren’s date tonight.

Meet Allen

Working hard to be a hard-working man.

Whereas most of the men he knows are jaded about online dating, Allen truly believes that each woman he meets has the potential to be the one––no matter how unsuccessful his last twenty dates have gone. But the second he lays eyes on Lauren, something stirs in his heart.

Unfortunately, for Allen, his demanding, domineering, narcissistic inner voice, Richard, has his own opinions about how Allen must act tonight to secure romantic success.

And he won’t shut up about it.

Meet Richard

Because you’re a man.

It’s 1990, and Richard is killin’ it on Wall Street. The former college athlete is kicking ass, and taking names in a blow-fueled environment that never, ever stops.

Until he’s forced to stop by his family. His spoiled, self-fish, demanding wife and his overly sensitive, overly kind, overtly needy son.

But, by any means necessary, his job is to whip Allen into shape.

To this day, those phantom “means” run Allen’s life.