Wish 143

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Movie
Original title Wish 143
Country of production United Kingdom
original language English
Publishing year 2009
length 23 minutes
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Director Ian Barnes
script Tom Bidwell
production Samantha Waite
music Norwell and Green
camera Steve Buckland
cut Sam Williams
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Wish 143 is a British tragicomic short film released in 2009. The film is set in Leeds .

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Sixteen-year-old David has cancer. A charity offers to grant him a wish, this would be wish number 143. But David wants something that should make the headlines. He would like to have sex one day. The hospital priest is not enthusiastic about it and David also gets into distress when a much older woman visits him in the hospital and offers him to grant his wish.

But David's dream includes a young, blonde woman named Amy Ashton and sex should take place in a black, tuned VW Golf if possible. The treating doctor meanwhile has bad news for David, his tumor has grown. Amy visits David in the hospital, but tells him that she now has a boyfriend, and she gives him a letter. When he returns to the ward reading the letter, he sees that one of his fellow patients has died. The pastor rejected the idea of ​​booking an escort girl for him, so David goes on the street at night.

The prostitute addressed does not believe that he is of legal age and rudely sends him away. Desperate, David throws a stone into the controlling pimp's jaguar. When the pastor picks him up from the police station, he wants to give him back his things: his phone and Amy's letter. However, David no longer wants the latter. His father reads it and learns that Amy had thought about granting him his wish, but could not.

He then takes David to Maggie, a prostitute. David and Maggie start talking, mostly about his illness and he just wants to be hugged and starts to cry.

The man from the charity gives him another chance to have a wish granted. Finally, you see David and the priest shooting clay pigeons, this time with cartridges and real targets instead of pebbles and cardboard bowls as is usually the case in the hospital park.

Honourings and prices

At the Academy Awards in 2011 he was nominated in the "Best Short Film" category. However, it won the same category at the British Independent Film Festival 2010. The audience at the Palm Springs Shortfest 2010 also voted it Best Short Film. In addition, the film in the same year won the Long Form Award of the Rushes Soho Shorts Festival .

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