• Odd Couples

These irreverent and perceptive shorts dig into the eccentric lives of couples brought and kept together by their unique peculiarities.

Short Films

Training Wheels

A woman rents a man for some practice.

Deerwoods Deathtrap

While on a trip to Cape May, New Jersey in 1971, Jack and Betty survived an accident that not many other humans have...they were hit by a train. Not only did they survive, but their 4-year-old son, infant daughter, and elderly mother survived the crash as well.

Shark

Completing the trilogy that began with Spider and Bear, Jack (Nash Edgerton) finds a perfect match in Sofie (Rose Byrne), a woman who loves pranks just as much as he does. Alas, the couple’s quest to outdo each other may lead to the most outrageous calamity of all.

Funeral of a Marriage Counsellor

Following the sudden death of their long-term therapist, a couple in their 50s takes a chaotic stab at rebalancing their relationship while grappling with their own mortality.

Pretend Partners

Two (not so good) friends realize they are better together than alone.

Reasons

When a dinner party is derailed by a vicious argument between siblings Tom and Emily, their partners Jade and Norman can’t wait to escape, but clumsy revelations quickly reveal the one thing they all have in common—a truly awkward secret.

Wild Card

Two strangers who never should have met are brought together by a video dating service.

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