The Appointments of Dennis Jennings is a 1988 American short comedy film, starring and co-written by Steven Wright, which won the Academy Award for Live Action Short Film at the 61st Academy Awards in 1988. Dennis Jennings is an introverted daydreamer, sleepwalking through life. He is a professional waiter and has an equally-dull girlfriend, Emma. In an attempt to release his pent-up feelings of isolation, he begins seeing a psychiatrist , only to discover that the doctor is somewhat less than interested in what he has to say. After finding his doctor sharing his intimate secrets with a... group of fellow psychiatrists at a bar, and then finding that his girlfriend is cheating on him with the doctor, Dennis decides he has had enough. He hunts the doctor down in the woods and shoots him, ending up in jail with an equally uncaring prison shrink.
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| Release date: | 1988 |
| Directed by: | Dean Parisot |
| Runtime: | 29 Minutes |
| Producer: | Paula Mazur |
| Editor: | Peter C. Frank |
| Cinematography: | Frank Prinzi |
| Screenplay by: | Steven Wright, Mike Armstrong |
| Genre: | Short Film, Comedy |