The Appointments of Dennis Jennings

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The Appointments of Dennis Jennings
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Directed by Dean Parisot
Written byMike Armstrong
Steven Wright
Produced byDean Parisot
Steven Wright
Starring Steven Wright
Rowan Atkinson
Laurie Metcalf
Cinematography Frank Prinzi
Edited byPeter Frank
Production
company
Schooner Productions
Distributed by HBO
Release date
Running time
29 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

The Appointments of Dennis Jennings is a 1988 American short TV comedy film directed by Dean Parisot and starring Steven Wright and Rowan Atkinson. [1] It was written by Mike Armstrong and Wright.

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The film won the Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film at the 61st Academy Awards in 1988. [2]

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. [3]

Cast

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." [4]

References

  1. ↑ "The Appointments of Dennis Jennings". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 8 November 2025.
  2. ↑ "The Appointments of Dennis Jennings". Academy Awards. Retrieved 8 November 2025.
  3. ↑ "The appointments of Dennis Jennings | WorldCat.org". search.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2025-11-08.
  4. ↑ "The Appointments of Dennis Jennings". The Hollywood Reporter . 306 (30): 4. 6 March 1989. ProQuest   2859061100.
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