Lucky Break
Late at night in a petrol station a mysterious man arrives with a bag of money, but is he even the most difficult customer?
Late at night in a petrol station a mysterious man arrives with a bag of money, but is he even the most difficult customer?
Jessye Romeo
Uloaku
Steve Oram
Guy
Diana Weston
Lady
Dean Kilbey
Policeman 1
Tom Dayton
Policeman 2
Aidan Sansom
Dispatcher
Late at night in a petrol station a mysterious man arrives with a bag of money, but is he even the most difficult customer?
Jessye Romeo has about three different character names in this entertaining short feature. Initially, she’s just “Uloaku” working behind the counter in a quiet petrol station. When a man comes in and starts behaving a bit suspiciously, she hits the panic button but then discovers that he (Steve Oram) is a harmless gent who (over)pays for his goods in slightly blue-tinged fifty pound notes! When another customer arrives, he heads to the bathroom and the rest of her ten minutes is spent juggling between this enigmatic gent, a stroppy woman and a couple of police officers who arrived to check she wasn’t being robbed. Luckily she’s quite a shrewd lass and so, like us, is quickly in on the joke and obviously quite prepared to play along with what I thought was a very fitting conclusion. Romeo is on good form here, as much with her facial expressions as with her dialogue and unlike the cheap disposable razor he buys, I thought this worked well.
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