"Fool's Day" is a 19-minute live action short film from the United States in the English language. This one was released back in 2013, so it will have its 5th anniversary next year. The writer and director is Cody Blue Snider and his co-writer is his brother Shane here. For CBS, it is the most known work of his career and we will see if he can top the success (especially awards-wise) at some point in his career if he decides to keep going as a filmmaker. Anyway, the title already gives away that this one is about the 1st of April as a group of school children plays a prank on their teacher. They brew some sort of coffee drink, but realize too quickly that it lets heads explode apparently. So what to do with this messed up situation? Confess it all? Get rid of the corpse? Take the blame for everybody? And how to deal with a cop coming to class quickly after to teach kids about how bad it is to abuse drugs. There's only one way out of it all right? Watch for yourself. I think Snider did a good job here overall. It was an entertaining little movie and he made the right decisions to turn this into a funny little story that, despite the heavy content, never takes itself too seriously. You can definitely call it a pretty dark comedy. Allso looking at how many child actors are in here, it's virtually impossibly to get good performances out of all of them, so he definitely also succeeded with writing them accordingly and still using the right camera angles to make this a good film, for example with the janitor. As for the rest, I won't say anything else. You should watch it yourself, preferably even on April Fool's Day.
Review of Fool's Day
