Home Entertainment
Short Film
Non Union
Home Entertainment follows Rose, a magnetic tapdancing showgirl who lives for the stage. For the electricity of a live audience. For the unconfined, freeing nature of the dancefloor. But in the early 1950s, when televisions popularize in American homes, people prefer a night in watching their daily dose of entertainment on the couch. As Rose’s once-popular theatre closes, she must decide; does she adapt, or disappear? When Rose is invited to perform on the television variety program The Marty Goodman Show, she sees it as a chance to survive a changing industry. Instead, television slowly reshapes her, trapping her in the confinements of commercialized algorithms, diminishing her craft, taking away her free will, and the audience she once thrived off of. As her career grows more visible, Rose becomes increasingly disconnected from the art that once gave her purpose.
Roles For This Project
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Submissions Due:
02/22/2026
Newly introduced to television, Dorothy is married to Gary of over 30 years and often initiates playful bickering. Serving as comedic relief, she represents the target consumer of 1950s home television: viewers who treat what they see on screen as a reference point for real life.
More Roles For This Project
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Submissions Due:
02/22/2026
Newly introduced to television, Dorothy is married to Gary of over 30 years and often initiates playful bickering. Serving as comedic relief, she represents the target consumer of 1950s home television: viewers who treat what they see on screen as a reference point for real life.
