Top cast:Ralph Macchio,Pat Morita,Elisabeth Shue
Director:Alex Proyas
Genre:Short
Region:Netherlands
Year:2007
Storyline:The overworked, selfless doctor was notified that one of his poor pregnant patients who already had a lot of children, Mildred Sorren (Sarah Selby), was about to deliver her baby in an emergency and he had to return to town early.Just a pulse.Bassoons, basset horns - like a rusty squeezebox.And then, suddenly, high above it, an oboe.A single note, hanging there, unwavering.Until a clarinet took it over, sweetened it into a phrase of such delight! This was no composition by a performing monkey! This was a music I had never heard.When Mortimer finishes the call, he absent-mindedly pours himself a glass and is about to drink the potion himself until it slowly dawns on him:Martha: Mortimer, ah, ah, ah, ah!Mortimer: Darling, don't 'ah, ah, ah, ah." Alice fell asleep in her bedroom, and experienced an hallucinatory dream, set in the movie theatre and diner:Alice dreamed that she eventually snuck away from her house (she climbed onto her roof and dropped down, as Rick had done earlier), although she found that Dan had already left the diner.Its premiere was in NYC on July 8, 1932, with "a warning that children will not be permitted to see this picture and adults not in normal health are urged not to!"However, the drastic changes in the film did not improve the film's box-office business and to the studio's dismay, it was both a major financial and critical failure.