Adult Life Skills is about 29 year old Anna approaching her 30th birthday and having an early mid-life crisis. She spends her days making videos using her thumbs and living like a hermit in her mums garden shed. A week before her birthday her mum gives her an ultimatum to move out of the shed, stop dressing like a teenager and get a haircut that doesn’t put her gender into question. A story about the universal themes of being lost and finding yourself, making peace with who you are, and regaining self-confidence and dignity.
Adult Life Skills hits UK cinemas and digital download on 24th June.
Based on the BAFTA nominated short film Emotional Fusebox; in UK cinemas June 24th.
Anna is stuck: she’s approaching 30, living like a hermit in her mum’s garden shed and wondering why the suffragettes ever bothered.
She spends her days making videos using her thumbs as actors – thumbs that bicker about things like whether Yogi Bear is a moral or existential nihilist. But Anna doesn’t show these videos to anyone and no one knows what they are for.
A week before her birthday her Mum serves her an ultimatum – she needs to move out of the shed, get a haircut that doesn’t put her gender in question and stop dressing like a homeless teenager. Naturally, Anna tells her Mum to BACK THE F-OFF.
However, when her school friend comes to visit, Anna’s self-imposed isolation becomes impossible to maintain. Soon she is entangled with a troubled eight year old boy obsessed with Westerns, and the local estate agent whose awkward interpersonal skills continually undermine his attempts to seduce her.
This is a story about confronting the things we are most scared of – a story that explores the universal themes of being lost and finding yourself, making peace with who you are, and regaining self-confidence and dignity.
It is basically the same themes as ROCKY if you think about it. But with thumbs. And a cowboy. And no boxing.
