The Story
The Writer/Director
The writer and director of Toast, Frank Grosvenor, has been meaning to get around to writing and directing a film for about twenty years but lack of affordable equipment, energy and talent had unfairly held him back.
The energy and equipment were in place. The talent he would have to hire in.
The Story
Frank has always felt pity for, and outrage on behalf of, the innocent motorists and stallholders whose property and livelihoods are endangered or destroyed by the inconsiderate driving of the heroes and villains of Bourne and Bond films as they chase each other through picturesque cities and colourful markets. What would happen to one of those stallholders – let us call him Andy – after such an event?
The Toast team, corseted by a strict budget, has produced a slim but shapely comedy/drama wherein all the participants, heroes and villains, have been to the same school in the same small Yorkshire town.
When Andy loses his livelihood he goes searching for answers and eventually finds tea, toast and his neighbour Phoebe in his beloved allotment shed. He is temporarily consoled but cast down again when he returns home and discovers his wife, Emma, similarly sharing tea and toast with Phoebe’s husband, Ed the bank manager. He has a hypocritical tantrum and flounces out of the house.
A beautiful morning after a drunken night on the moors revives his spirits once again until the heroes and villains once more carelessly speed by and destroy everything he has left.
Armed only with a toothbrush Andy sets off in pursuit of his tormentors, towards local super-villain Julian Wiley’s mysterious Volcano Project Headquarters and his appointment with destiny.
What Happens Next
This short film, although a complete story in itself, is only the first act of a feature length film in which our characters have many more exciting adventures including an incident with a burning bush and a skirmish in a supermarket which unfortunately leads to a bad-tempered war with the neighbouring village. At present this potential feature is awaiting offers of finance and encouragement.