STILL HAPPY

STILL HAPPY

2019

Directed by FRED BERNER

Written by ALAN ZWEIBEL

World Premiere | August 13, 2019 (HollyShorts Film Festival)

WINNER BEST ACTOR (Scott Adsit) | 2019 Dublin International Short Film and Music Festival

Running Time: 23 Minutes (Color)

Filmed on location in Sarasota, Florida

A middle-aged baseball fan goes to Delray Beach seeking out George "Happy" Haliday, a modest man who once played second base for the 1962 New York Mets. The fan has brought a baseball with him that his father caught during a game that infamous season.  The ball has been signed by every member of the ‘62 team, except one...

Alan Zweibel is an original Saturday Night Live writer. Alan has won five Emmy awards for his work in television which also includes It’s Garry Shandling’s Show and Curb Your Enthusiasm. Alan collaborated with Billy Crystal on the Tony Award winning play 700 Sundays, Martin Short’s Fame Becomes Me, and the off-Broadway plays Happy (“Summer Shorts” 2010), Pine Cone Moment ("Summer Shorts" 2014) Comic Dialogue, Between Cars, and Bunny Bunny – Gilda Radner: A Sort of Romantic Comedy which he adapted from his best-selling book. Alan wrote the Thurber Prize winning novel The Other Shulman, the popular children’s book Our Tree Named Steve and, most recently, a parody of the Haggadah titled “For This We Left Egypt?” with Dave Barry and Adam Mansbach. Alan’s humor has appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times Op-Ed page and MAD Magazine.  He received an honorary PhD. from the State University of New York and in 2010 the Writers Guild of America, East gave him a Lifetime Achievement Award.

Scott Adsit was raised in Chicago where he worked on the Second City Mainstage & ETC stages and at the Steppenwolf Theater. He won a Joseph Jefferson award for Best Actor for his work at the Second City. He now lives in New York where he currently performs in several shows at the UCB Theater: Adsit & Gausas, Gravid Water and Let's Have A Ball. Film credits include The Italian Job, For Your Consideration, Last Night, Mr. Tambourine Man, The Terminal, Without A Paddle, Admissions, Kicking & Screaming, Be Cool and The Informant!. His TV credits include: Moral Orel, Law And Order SVU, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Life On Mars, Monk, Huff, Tenacious D, CSI Miami, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Stacked, Dharma and Greg, Mary Shelly's Frankenhole for Adult Swim, and played Pete Hornberger on NBC's 30 Rock.

Tom Wright has appeared in over 40 stage productions both on and off-Broadway. On Broadway, he performed in A Taste of Honey which received two Tony Award nominations. Wright co-starred in the feature films Barbershop, Barbershop 2: Back in Business with Ice Cube. He also co-starred with Angela Bassett as her ex-lover in Sunshine State, with writer/director John Sayles. Other films with Sayles include: Passion Fish, City of Hope, Matewan, The Brother from Another Planet and Honeydripper. Wright won the Best Actor Award at the Santa Monica Film Festival for his portrayal of John Shed in the indie film Dumbarton Bridge. He has played roles on several television programs but is best known for playing Mr. Morgan, Yankees co-worker of character George Costanza (Jason Alexander) on Seinfeld.