Toby travels with a woman who pays. He's got it made, except that her nine-year-old daughter is smarter than he is. Based on the novella:
Lazy pleasure-loving Toby, in flight from his creditors in
America, has tried it as an English-teacher in Paris ("know-your-words
sort of thing") and as a tour guide in Italy and Greece ("I've always regarded Europe as more or less of a restaurant."),
—to
Bali, Hydra, Puerto Vallerta, wherever he can avoid cold weather and
alarm clocks. Marcie is the widow of a scientific genius, now dead in
some wacko experiment, and her nine-year-old daughter by him, Andrea,
thinks in megabytes.
And
there's the rub: "Marcie is no smarter than anybody else; the child is
smarter than anybody else"—including Toby, who she treats as her
yo-yo. She'd have got rid of
him long ago but her mommy loves him, so she keeps him around to, what, play with.
Now
Haze has summoned Marcie and Andrea to London, so they can pose as a
family while he pretends to buy an old house, but in fact wants to marry Marcie to Lord Michael, and pass the title on to Andrea.
Proposed: Scott Hinds
They distract Toby with Dr Lu, a hooker posing as a psychiatrist,
who lures him into compromising situations; one of which involves dropping his dry goods in front of the Queen.
Proposed: Mary Reynolds
And as if he didn't have enough trouble, the house is haunted by a gay ghost who's in love with Toby.
Proposed: Matthew Baynton
Proposed: Mary Reynolds
Proposed: Matthew Baynton
Pretentious Pictures presents a London comedy.
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