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In this 12-minute dark comedy Sarita Choudhury stars as a bedeviled
lawyer who must stop a dysfunctional American family's absurd feud
over a macabre heirloom.  A satire loosely based on the Terri Schiavo case.

Featuring the inimitable John Lordan as bitter patriarch August Helms,
Luke Rosen as his underachieving son Brian and Sean Hayden as his crafty ex-son-in-law Jonny.

Sean Hayden, John Lordan and Luke Rosen in Lady in a Box. Photograph by Joshua Hume. John Lordan in Lady in a Box

Written & Directed by Jeffrey Stanley
Producer Matthew Myers
Co-producer Tai Burkholder
Director of Photography Peter Olsen
 Featuring the international trance hit Sweet Lassi Dub by The Bhutan Philharmonic

 Sarita Choudhury in Lady in a Box. Photograph by Joshua Hume.

This script won the AIVF-BVR GET IT MADE PACKAGE as publicized in The Independent magazine in January-February 2006. Many thanks to the Association of Independent Video & Filmmakers and Broadcast Video Rentals for their generous support without which this movie could not have been made.

Shot on location in New York City.

For more information or to contact the cast and crew please email lady@brain-on-fire.com.

All photos are ©2006 by Jeffrey Stanley.  All rights reserved.