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Film Synopsis:

Short film, won best short film in Birmingham Film Festival 1996 and was screened at various festivals, including Edinburgh.

Greasy is about an ex-offender (Heat) working out his probation in a greasy spoon cafe for a bullying boss, (Mr. More).

Heat does martial arts and models himself on Bruce Lee. But one night leaving the cafe after being kept late to wash dishes, Heat sees two yobs enter the cafe, he follows them in, unseen and once they have tied up his boss, taped a potato sack over his head and locked him in the stock room, he leaps in, chases them off and takes his boss on a journey of a lifetime in the back of his own car.

Mr. More is duped into believing he has been rescued by the twat who washes his dishes and forced to recompense him for his trouble - a madcap comedy that delighted audiences and won best short film in the Birmingham Film Festival, screened also in many other festivals, including Edinburgh.