Project Detail

For Better

Synopsis

We all know a Jeanine: 40’s, childless, partnerless, wondering not just, “How did I get here?” (that’s the easy question) but “Where next?” and, more importantly, “Who with?”
Jeanine’s is a simple goal: She wants someone to say her name in the dark. So a husband, i.e. someone contractually obliged to be with her, seems like the answer. Which is how Jeanine came to be here in a wedding dress, beside an A-road on a rainy day, holding a sign that says, ‘MARRY ME’. Problem is, the various men who stop and talk to her have their own agendas (not all of them honourable).
Then a car pulls in and out fall two drunk women: hen party sashes, gins in tins and a jilted bride-to-be who’s the angriest woman to ever draw breath. Rival bride Jeanine seems the ideal target for her fury. Until Jeanine realises how to unite them all in their various frustrations...
Official Selection Dinard Festival of British and Irish Films 2025

Details

Year: 2025
Type of project: Shorts
Running time: 14 min 42 sec
Format: Digital
Director: Kitty Percy
Producer: Andrew Harmer
Executive Producer: Jonathan Carr, William Shutt, Jess Wheeler
Editor: Andrew Harmer
Screenwriter: Kitty Percy
Director of Photography: Robbie Bryant
Production Designer: Tobias Buller
Sound: Graeme Willetts, David Gritzman
Composer: Alastair McNamara
Principal cast: Alice Lowe, Edward Rowe, Nikesh Patel, Saskia Chana

Genre

Comedy Drama

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Supported by BFI NETWORK

Mirrorless Limited

Andrew Harmer

mirrorlessltd@gmail.com

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