Long story short films8/15/2023 ![]() He can’t.), or at least forgets to buy a proper anniversary present as their marriage crumbles because Teddy is literally “never there” for it. Zahra Newman plays his straight man, long-suffering Leanne, the one who is witness to the years that pass as Teddy “forgets” their anniversary (He hasn’t. Rafe Spall is properly befuddled and exasperated as Teddy, a guy not able to cope with this curse or whatever you call it. Teddy’s marriage, friendships and life are getting away from him. ![]() Because no one - not the wife who’s sharing that life with him and sees him all through that year that he’s just missed, not his best friend Sam, not the baby he didn’t realize he’s fathered and is supposedly raising - sees any evidence of that.Įxcept for that once a year, on their anniversary, when Teddy goes mental and can’t recall anything that’s gone on or all that’s gone wrong. A nap made another circuit of the sun just vaporize, a tumble into a kiddie pool takes away another, and so on.Īnd he’s not able to articulate what’s going on with his life, “traveling through time,” not that anyone else can tell. He woke up the day after their wedding and one year was gone. He’s the king of “waiting” and suddenly his life with his beloved Leanne is rushing by, one lost year at a time. ![]() It’s not “‘Groundhog Day’… technically.” Still, “that’s close enough.”īut “Long Story Short,” remembering it might help Teddy out. ![]()
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