Dream Kitchen

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Dream Kitchen
Directed by Barry Dignam
Written byBarry Dignam
(adapted from an original stage scene by Kevin McCarthy)
Produced by
  • Conor McKiernan
  • Katherina Fay
  • Barry Dignam
Starring
  • Sean Paddy Murphy
  • Frank Coughlan
  • Caroline Rothwell
  • Sarah Pilkington
  • Loclann Aiken
CinematographyDavid O'Sullivan
Edited byMichelle Spilanne
Music by"Dream Kitchen" by Frazier Chorus
"Un bel di vedremo" performed by the Orchestra of the Opera House, Rome
Production
companies
Hit and Run Productions
DLIADT
Release date
  • 1999 (1999)
Running time
8 minutes
CountryIreland
LanguageEnglish

Dream Kitchen is a 1999 Irish short film directed by Barry Dignam in which a young man named Sean Paddy Murphy, fantasises about coming out to his parents. [1]

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Plot

A young man arrives home from school and meets his father fixing the car. The two barely exchange words except for the boy's father asking him to hand him a pair of Vise-Grips. When he goes inside he sees his pregnant sister smoking and his mother in the dark and untidy kitchen drinking vodka and coke.

As he sits at the table he begins to daydream of being in a clean stylish kitchen with his well dressed mother. Speaking in faux-Elizabethan English to one another he tells his mother that he is gay and she is delighted with the news. She calls in his father who is wearing clean white overalls and when he is told of his son's secret he too is overjoyed. Just then the young man's sister enters and again reacts happily to the news of her brother's homosexuality and hugs him.

The doorbell then rings and the son reveals to his family a glowingly handsome young man, Andrew; his boyfriend. The family welcome him and invites him to a celebratory feast.

The young man awakes from his daydream and is back in the grey kitchen. He tries to initiate a conversation with his mother about a television programme they watched the night before. His father enters and sits at the table still grubby from fixing the car. He asks what they are talking about, to which the mother says "...the programme about those fairies", to which he replies "Bloody perverts!" and rants that the programme is "rubbish" and "dangerous". The parents then ask why the son brought up the programme; just then the doorbell rings and he rushes out.

When he answers the door it is revealed that the handsome boyfriend from the fantasy was real, and the young man grabs his coat and smiles to the camera before they drive off together.

Cast

Awards and accolades

Film FestivalCategoryYearOutcome
Galway Film Fleadh [2] Best Irish Short Film1999Won
Berlin International Film Festival [3] Golden Berlin Bear2000Nominated
Rose Film FestivalBest Short Film2000Won
New York Independent Film Festival [3] Audience Award for Best Short Film2001Won

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References

  1. "Dream Kitchen" (PDF). Berlin International Film Festival . Retrieved 29 January 2012.
  2. "Dream Kitchen Cooks up a Storm". The Irish Film & Television Network . Retrieved 28 January 2012.
  3. 1 2 "Dream Kitchen". British Universities Film & Video Council . Retrieved 29 January 2012.