The Appointments of Dennis Jennings

The Appointments of Dennis Jennings
Directed by	Dean Parisot
Written by	Mike Armstrong Steven Wright
Produced by	Dean Parisot Steven Wright
Starring	Steven Wright Rowan Atkinson Laurie Metcalf
Distributed by	HBO
Release date	1988
Running time	29 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

The Appointments of Dennis Jennings is a 1988 American short comedy film, starring, co-written and co-produced by Steven Wright, which won the Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film at the 61st Academy Awards in 1988.

Plot

Dennis Jennings (Steven Wright) 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 (Rowan Atkinson), who is annoyed with him and uninterested in what he has to say. After finding his doctor sharing his (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.

Cast

Steven Wright	--- Dennis Jennings	Peter Maloney	--- Dr. Wilson
Rowan Atkinson	--- Dr. Schooner	Michael Mantell	--- Businessman
Laurie Metcalf	--- Emma	Bill McCutcheon	--- Man on TV
Carrotte	--- Laughing Psychiatrist	Mick Muldoon	--- Repairman
Christopher Durang	--- Laughing Psychiatrist	Rochelle Oliver	--- Woman on TV
Martha Gehman	--- Lisa	David Hyde Pierce (credited as David Pierce)	--- Businessman
Joe Grifasi	--- Bartender	Mike Starr	--- Doorman
Thomas Ikeda	--- Laughing Psychiatrist	John Tillinger	--- Psychiatrist Drawing
Dana Ivey	--- Newscaster
Damian Young	--- Businessman

External links

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• The Appointments of Dennis Jennings at IMDb
• The Appointments of Dennis Jennings on YouTube