The Appointments of Dennis Jennings
Template:Short description Template:Infobox film The Appointments of Dennis Jennings is a 1988 American short TV comedy film directed by Dean Parisot and starring Steven Wright and Rowan Atkinson.<ref name="BFIsearch">Template:Cite web</ref> It was written by Mike Armstrong and Wright.
The film won the Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film at the 61st Academy Awards in 1988.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Plot
Dennis Jennings is an introvert, showing symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder, anxiety, paranoia, and a troubled youth. He works as a waiter and has an indifferent girlfriend, Emma, who only seems to patronize him. The "appointments" are with his psychiatrist, who is annoyed with him and uninterested in what he has to say. After finding his doctor sharing Dennis's intimate secrets with a group of fellow psychiatrists at a bar, and then finding that his girlfriend is cheating on him with the doctor, Dennis decides he has had enough. He hunts the doctor, shoots him, and goes to jail afterwards.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
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Reception
The Hollywood Reporter wrote: "The Appointments of Dennis Jennings is the kind of TV comedy that wins precisely because of its ability to make the odd and the unexpected the resignedly accepted, a sort of Alice through the looking-glass perceived through an end heretofore unknown."<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
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