THE HAPPY ENDING PROJECT
By Andrew Hawcroft
Outline
A two-man documentary crew for a low-end Canadian TV
production company turn up at a hotel room in Vancouver.
There they meet James Lantern, a 39 year-old Englishman
with possibly only 5 days left to live before a potentially fatal heart transplant
operation. This is the man they have grudgingly agreed to document on his quest
to try and meet a certain woman he has fallen in love with.
The woman in question, however, is a painted character
on a science-fiction book cover. A
fantasy figure painted by a local Canadian artist who has been known to use
real-live models to paint from.
The possibility
that this character may be based on a real woman, is the flimsy foundation for James’
quest, a quest that seems as silly and impossible as the usual TV-lite tripe
covered by the cynical and disillusioned two-man crew of presenter Dan Lone and
cameraman Joe Chinelli.
Except, as the days and hours pass, and the two men
discover that the woman in the poster does exist, it becomes a lot
harder to remain objective about James Lantern....
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