Toby Jones is an aspiring filmmaker from Fargo, ND who made this short film (two minutes) won 3rd place (should have been 1st) at the Fargo Two-minute film festival. In it, Jones shows wisdom in film-making and life in general beyond his years by letting his audience get a feel for his two main characters entire relationship in two minutes. All the self-aware humor is perfectly delivered in this one-shot film by Heidi Gustad and Jones himself as the two main (and only) actors. Normally a concept, such as the one Jones is dealing with here, would be handled with no subtlety at all while Jones instead ops to focus on character-based humor and the aforementioned self-aware dialog (which satires American suburbia). When other filmmakers his age would laugh at his own juvenile joke (which I won't give away here) Jones makes sure that his characters don't laugh at all: they are the joke, not telling it. I say "debut" in the title of my review because Jones has made numerous films before this, this is simply the one to make it to IMDb first. Coming up, he has a feature-length film called "AJ Goes to France" which is set to debut in his native Fargo in December, 2005 and then tour movie circuits across the country.
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