Autographs for French Fries by Sean Michael Davis: What if everyone wanted an autograph from a waiter? That's
the basis for this short film, a satirical role-reversal comedy about society based in a restaurant. Ralphy Limone, a food
server, hates his job and therefore his life. 20 minutes. Extremely well-done comedy, with probably the first big laughs of
the night. (Opening titles, shown over very dramatic music: Tom Hanks....Mel Gibson.... David Hassellhoff.....[fade to
back]....[fade back in] are not in this movie!) Ralphy needs daily affirmation recitation just to get up the energy to go to
his job as a server in a restaurant. I'm sure every server can identify with his plight: unappreciative a**holes who treat
you like sh*t, especially abusive, rich and/or famous customers who can get away with it. Meanwhile, the not-so-rich
seem to get side-stepped unfairly. How far do you go to please these customers (I face that myself all too often)? It's
worse when the boss won't back you up. A bump-on-the-head accident in the kitchen reverses the roles as Ralphy has
visions of the way it ought to be: everyone is now stopping him for his autograph and the reverse ass-kissing begins, all
the way up to the boss (a stand-out performance by Brett Rice). After having experienced this, when Ralphy awakes, the
balance of his shift goes, well...considerably different!

    Very good performances, well-shot scenes (the Panasonic 100A 24p camera was used), real crowd-pleaser. In an
earlier edition of this week's TFR review I remarked that I saw actor/writer Tom Ryan in the audience and that I wanted
to meet him to congratulate him, but by the time I could make my way over there, he was gone. I have since been
advised that Tom Ryan was not in attendance this night, so someone who looked a lot like Ralphy almost got an
unexpected greeting from me! Woops! Other production members were present, however, and I would still like to
meet them someday.