LINDA, A Highly Successful Call Girl

A London lady of the evening with dignity and business sense is superior to her circumstances.

Linda is so beautiful, so refined, so aloof that her clients fall in love with her.

She's making a pile with American businessmen—who introduce her to the Prince—who falls for her too. 

Her passion for independence only inflames him—he wants tomarry her, have children!—they all do, but she is resolutely herself.

Professional cool is the secret of her success, and the allure that enslaves powerful men. 

Cops, pimps, hookers, judges, prison guards, psychiatrists, politicians—there isn’t much she can’t deal with. 

And when the Prince introduces her to the former American President… 

Proposed cast: Liz Fuller (Linda)

LINDA is a call girl, a businesswoman and an independent spirit.  Presidents fall in love with her, though she’s not that interested, and she winds up in the Oval Office advising one of them.

Proposed cast: Peter Sarsgaard (Barry)

BARRY is the American  junior executive who’s in love with her.  He will do anything to have her, and ultimately kills for her, which finally gets her attention.

Proposed cast: Guy Ingle ("the Prince")

Proposed cast: Wendy Ellis ("the Duchess")

Proposed cast: Timothy Watters ("the former American President")

Proposed cast: Teresa Barnwell ("the American Secretary of State")

Proposed cast: Gerardo Puisseaux ("the President")

Pretentious Pictures presents a dry comedy.

What the Devil?

Ladies and Gentlemen,

It scares one but one feels so, I don’t know, demonic!

Here’s the Devil tempting the pope.

Here he is tempting the homeless.

Here he is sponsoring my blog.

Here he is in a much-awarded movie I never finished.

Here is a #short (such a thing now) with 30 seconds of quotes by the demonic Dalí.

Here’s Boccaccio on the secrets of the confessional.

And here, for those who enjoy deep poetry, is some demonically inspired literary criticism.

With horns and a tail,

Robert

Robert MacLean is an independent filmmaker. His recent The Light Touch is on Amazon Prime, Tubi and Scanbox, and his 7-minute comedy is an out-loud laugh. He is also a novelist, a playwright, a blogger, a YouTuber, a film reviewer, a literary critic, and a stand-up comic poet. Born Toronto, PhD McGill, taught at Canadian universities, too cold, live Greece, Irish citizen. No brains, but an intellectual snob.

“I was beastly but never coarse. A high-class sort of heel.”

The Light Touch on Amazon Prime

The Natural Wish to Be Robert MacLean

The Devil's Pleasure Garden

Loose Shoes: A Sinister Musical Comedy

A nice woman, on vacation in a small seaside hotel, meets a menacing woman who looks just like her—in fact they’re played by the same actress—and is determined to seduce Ms. Nice’s husband.

Ms. Sinister is a nightclub singer who impersonates Lucy, Marilyn, Liz, Marlene, Kim, Bette, Joan and Vivien—

—and captivates Mr. Nice.

She is also a dominatrix—

—in the employ of an English aristocrat who enjoys being tortured by her.

As the women step into each other’s shoes their men, and then they themselves, no longer know which Georgia is which.

Pretentious pictures presents

Loose Shoes

a sinister musical comedy

Robert MacLean is an independent filmmaker. His The Light Touch is on Amazon Prime, Tubi and Scanbox, and his 7-minute comedy is an out-loud laugh. He is also a novelist, a playwright, a blogger, a YouTuber, a film reviewer, a literary critic, and a stand-up comic poet. Born Toronto, PhD McGill, taught at Canadian universities, too cold, live Greece, Irish citizen. No brains but an intellectual snob.

“I was beastly but never coarse. A high-class sort of heel.”

The Light Touch on Amazon Prime

Film reviews

The Natural Wish to Be Robert MacLean