Alice?s Diner is a haven for the hopeless. Sketchy past down on your luck or just getting through life, Alice has a place for you. Benno (played by the incomparable Kurtwood Smith, Dead Poet?s…
Hard Scrambled
Running time: 84 mins
WORLD PREMIEREAlice?s Diner is a haven for the hopeless. Sketchy past down on your luck or just getting through life, Alice has a place for you. Benno (played by the incomparable Kurtwood Smith, Dead Poet?s Society, That 70?s Show) is the cook. Years of being the muscle and cracking kneecaps has grizzled him beyond his years. Scotty, the utility guy, is fresh from juvi and can?t seem to shake his petty thief habits. And Joe is the well-intentioned but ultimately dim-witted deliveryman.
When Alice realizes she can?t keep the place going anymore these three likeable losers find new destinies?and new hardships. And when Benno?s $20,000 goes missing, loyalty will be tested and friendships compromised.
In life there are good eggs and bad eggs, but until you crack one you never know what you?re going to get. Hard Scrambled keeps you wondering what you?re going to get all the way up to the last frame. It may end sunny-side up or over easy, but guaranteed it won?t exactly be what you ordered.
Brian Nicholas
Preceded by: Rock Cod Memories; dir. Ben Wu; 10min.; Bereft of his own past with his Chinese grandfather (who died only a few weeks after his grandson's birth), the filmmaker turns to his grandmother and her own remembrances of a man he never knew.
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