BBFF Official Selection: Twenty Ten

Country of Origin: Australia

Howard likes Grace, Grace likes Felix, Felix likes Samantha. At least he did until she got all serious. But mostly Felix just wants to help his hapless friend Howard pluck up the courage to talk to the girl of his dreams. When she mistakes Howard for a DJ, the perfect plan is hatched. Or perfectly inept, as it turns out.

The excruciatingly funny new Australian comedy Twenty Ten asks these questions, and more, as it tackles the timeless conundrum, how far is too far to go for love?

Felix and Howard work for a bottle shop in Nowhere, Sydney. Felix works the counter, Howard does deliveries – ‘logistics’. Their topics of conversation are girls, women, and postcode Twenty Ten, known for its nightlife, amenity, and, yes, girls.They also discuss Grace, the waitress down the road on whom Howard has a crush and no idea what to do about it.

When a major wine label decides to hold a tasting in the store, Felix hatches a cunning plan: get Howard to invite Grace, get her drunk, and leave the rest to fate. Only thing is: Grace has gotten the idea, God knows where from, that Howard is a DJ. She suggests he play at the tasting, which sends him into a blind panic. Howard does what any rational person would do. He plunders his savings, gets lessons and becomes an actual DJ. Could this be the way to her heart? Don’t bet on it.

In a heartbreaking climax, old wounds are opened, new bonds are made and only one thing is left for certain: that nothing will be the same again.Nothing but the dream of somewhere better. Somewhere like Twenty Ten…

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