Dir: Tim Lethbridge
Country: Aus
Year: 2010
Duration: 77mins
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At a community centre in a small country town, hopeless romantic Kingsley is organising an afternoon of speed dating. However, the day gets off to a bad start when five men arrive looking for love and are met by only two women, one of whom is heavily pregnant. The day doesn't improve when they actually start talking and playing 'bonding games' to break the ice. The observational humour moves between laugh out loud funny to painfully embarrassed cringing as the social mores of dating, romance and relationships are played out in all of their excruciating detail.
Produced and shot in WA, A Day at the Oasis is a well observed, character driven, naturalistic comedy about life, hope and, perhaps, the possibility of love.
Introduced by writer and producer Tim Beckett.
Screens with Nino Balcon