The Attendant | Short film about a man beating the system
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- čas přidán 8. 06. 2021
- A whimsical, warm hearted feel-good short film, featuring Adrian Dunbar (Superintendent Ted Hasting in Line of Duty), and written and directed by Ian Beattie (Game of Thrones). You'll want to pay attention to the Attendant.
Frankie is a car park attendant at the spectacular Giant’s Causeway in Co. Antrim, one of Ireland’s natural scenic wonders. However, he has his eye on the future. Cathy is his friend and work colleague and she and her husband Paul are in trouble. Nevertheless, as Frankie always says: something will turn up!
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3 lives, in 11 minutes, with a beautiful ending.
My thanks to the author, cast, and crew, for bringing it to light .
Based on a true story from the carpark attendant at Bristol Zoo. He just disappeared one day and all was revealed - he was there for over 30 years I believe. Legend!
Apparently, Bristol Zoo guy got away with £1 MILLION +
@@plumberman4u I haven't finished counting it yet.
I heard this a few years ago told as a joke. It’s much MUCH better knowing it’s based on a true story and even better as a short film, done so fantastically well.
True story
@@stevedarby3470 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
The end with Cathy's husband smiling and waving at his first customer 😂😊❤
Crying my eyeballs out. Sadly with awful inflation caused by government, this is the reality of many families. Wish there was more Frankies in this world. Gorgeous film. Well done everybody. Thank you! :)
11min with a plot, a beginning and an ending, way better than most 2hrs films. Excellent acting. Great filming. Thanks a million (from Paris, France) !
The art of making films...
Berlin agrees
100% agree. These over-budget grandiose film makers could learn a thing or two watching this film short! (Montreal, Canada 🇨🇦)
You're absolutely right about the quality of the short film being superior to the traditional 90-minute big movie. but the people who make or fund big movies know that movie-goers will not go out to a theater for just a 30-minute movie. And therein lies the rub.
11mins of excellence!!…so engaging and emotionally rewarding!!..
There is ZERO fat on this little gem. Not one extra line or scene. It's tight, sweet, and it has warmth. I like it a lot. 🥰
*I know of an Army PFC during his second tour of Afghanistan who told the sergeant who asked him why he was standing outside the mess tent, that he'd been posted there in order to count the number of soldiers who ate at each meal.
He said this because he'd seen many of the others in his group get sent off to dig with engineering units, and he just sort of ''wandered off'' before they could assign him to a labor detail.
The sergeant got him a little counter-clicker, and told him to ''keep up the good work.'' It was a made-up job, and he did it for 15 months, AND he was told to ''train'' the next guy when his time was up.
He NEVER had to turn in the count, and had no supervisor: easiest time anyone ever did in that war. 😅
I can believe it. While I was assigned to Lackland AFB one of my coworkers told me about a former employee who arrived at work every day, locked himself in his office, and was not seen until the end of shift as he headed home. This went on for years until his eventual retirement. Upon inspection it was determined the man reported to nobody and did nothing but read while at work, having no other assigned duties other than to collect his paycheck. I would have dismissed this story as poppycock except that the man telling it to me was in a very similar situation. Such is the nature of bureaucracy.
Back over 25 years ago, a story went around that the car park attendant at Bristol zoo did just this. No-one ever questioned who he worked for; just gave him a few quid and went to look at the animals....it was actually a free zoo carpark!
I have heard that story.
It still goes on in places.
It’s true 😂 fellow bristolian here 😂
Ohhhhhhhh... I was confused af. I thought he was a drug dealer or something, lmao
🙋 Was the attendant conning people? If so, why would it be a great film as many commenters are posting?
I love these shorts. I get more out of these flicks than an overrated Hollywood movie.
Me too and well said!
Based on a true story, apart from the womans husband taking over.
That's because the internet has destroyed your ability to maintain attention.
You see , that there !
@@biggusdikkus069 Away and catch on to yourself !
I loved the little chime & grin from husband in the last frame to bookend the movie. The acting was awesome; as was the scripting & plot.
His wee wave and all but... 🥲
Made me smile to see genuine goodness in people at a time when there isn’t much to be found.
America must ruin people's perception of the world. There's goodness thankfully where I live.
@@EMMYK1916 Got to blame someone else huh???
It depends who you surround yourself with. There are lots of good people out there. :)
Goodness? This guy was ripping people off.
@@Riverrockphotos How?
Meeting the bank manager with his "Now Panic & Freak Out" mug when you're behind with the mortgage ...
I absolutely STILL love this short film...💙🌎
So clever, makes me want to open my own "car park".
Just found this while browsing through CZcams, an absolute masterpiece. All the actors were superb and it made my day. Thanks.
I think this is based on a report about e a car park attendant based at the little hut at the entrance of a car park for years and took entrance fee every day. Was very friendly and got to know the regular workers that used it. It turned out that he had set up himself unofficially and the car park was supposed to be free and unmanned. Genius! :-)
A spoiler comment...me thinks!!! 🙄
@@KayJayKe never thought of that. I usually watch first then look at comments. In case there are any spoilers.
@@skycrafts5140 🙂 I read comments as I'm watching and this one is so great that I hope everyone watches before reading comments cos this short film is great!
@@KayJayKe I only read Comments after viewing to avoid this.
oh, ok i get it now
I cried at the end of this. So much more of my own life started making sense. I think it was Marlin Munroe that said," If i did everything by the rule book i wouldn't be where i am now. "
Oh, the money that Cathy and her husband are about to make. And so the con continues... Well-written masterpiece.
You can take over my 🚗 park ,when I retire. 😁😁
If it is that car park the game is over ! Love Ireland
Thank you for Explaining !NOW i get it 😀
@@sofiedouglas757 sadly, its not true of Giant's Causeway. They own this car park and all access to that bit of coast.
So she can tell their bank manager about the new job?
Wow, really cool story, well-executed in this film. "I don't need any help. This is MY car park!" Priceless.
The smile and wave at the end from a very relieved and happy man! Brought a tear to my eye. Cracking film!
Watched it two times, easy and nice athmosphere. Thanks for the good mood❤
Why are these short Irish films always so bloody superb?
It's a curse.
I love the Irish!❤
heart.
What a lovely short film. It was overflowing with realism. The actors were amazing. They were all believable! The married couple that was going through a financial crisis were so sweet. I appreciated how the husband expressed his feelings. He was honest with how he felt because he was not able to secure a position. The wife always made him remember what was important and that one day he would secure a position. Sometimes when couples have a financial crisis they forget to be kind to one another. Six months is a long time to be unemployed. The bank lends money and needs to receive it back. I am so happy that the man without a job was able to secured the attendant's job when he retired. The wife was sweet and very hopeful. 'HOPE CHANGES EVERYTHING'-i am sure many people can relate to this story! Hold on!
I can relate; believe me I’ve been in the same place as the husband. Never enough money no matter how hard you work; you feel irresponsible even though you’re doing exactly what you’re “supposed” to be doing. The endless waiting for “something to turn up.” And above all the disillusionment at realizing that “this is not where I thought I’d be at this stage in my life.” It takes a toll. Thank God I’m in a better place financially now and have been for nearly a decade, but there is a part of me that always wonders if we will make the mortgage this month, the car payment etc. It never goes away.
Today I changed the oil on my lawnmower, I went with a semi synthetic 10w-30 oil. Hope this helps.
The banks need to be paid back. They cashed in an insurance policy that covered the cost of the mortgage default and put that in their pocket. The original mortgage application was a promise to pay and the banks auctioned the promissory note to group of investors so the bank doesn't even own the debt. They made a good wedge selling that debt on. After that they were just payment collectors for some one else.
If the mortgagee wrote to the bank and asked for the original signed document to be returned back once the debt is paid the banks would refuse. You might ask how could the bank insist to hold on to the original signed documents when the debt had been paid ? For a very good reason. The original document would show on the back how much the debt was sold on for, and how many times the note has been auctioned.
The scam would be exposed.
And yet these unscrupulous bar stewards would throw a hard-working couple down on their luck out on the street and pretend they cared. They would say "sorry .. It's out of my hands ...this is from head office....."
@Michelle - you are right Michelle except there is no money. It's fiat debt currency, there's no way of getting back from a war chest that was just a bunch of iou's anyway but there are some interesting ideas that some very clever people have come up with which I won't divulge here. But keep digging. You'll get there.
I wish my wife felt about me the way Cathy felt about her husband ...
I read my son Fionn and the angry giant yesterday, a Irish folk tale about how the giant causeway was built, and today I see this in my newsfeed
Incredible kindness in a very real world we are all going through. And giving us all hope 'Something always turns up'. Absolutely loved it. Thank you team. Great job! Well done!
Hello Dear
How are you doing today?
@@thomsonsmith95 derp
@@thomsonsmith95 that comes across as harassment
Please go back and watch it again. :)
Lawd, I think I've watched this a dozen times now, and I still laugh and weep throughout! Great film.
Thank you, for a great example of how we, human beings, can beat the system. It's time.
I loved this film. It was so captivating and I just couldn't stop watching. Better than the usual crap on TV.
This happened on my own land. Parking was free, but out of sight from my business. I noticed a well-known local character talking to people in the car park. He used to tout for traders in the area. Well, I'd sern him do it outside the Post Office andvthe butcher's too, and outside all the pubs, so I had no objection, he was always cheerful and people need guidance. I kept seeing him in the car park, always talking to people, giving them directions, and helping them to find a parking space. He knew everyone locally and always had a cheery smile.
Then I realised what he was really up to... charging for parking wherever it was free. When I caught him with his ticket roll, he said he was selling the tickets for a raffle, but a customer said he was charging for parking. The wily old boy's reply was "I do it for all the businesses, organising their parking. I've always done it, and nobody's said anything about it before". True. He'd been doing it for years on busy days, working the first car park until it was full, then the next and the next, 50p a car, then back to the first as spaces emptied and new people drove in. Inside each car park, between the cars, keeping a watchful eye out for the owners, and never charging villagers, he'd squirrel away enough for a pub crawl every night.
We shared a good knowledge of Anglo-Saxon vernacular language, it turned out. We still said a cheery "Good morning" when we met in the Post Office though.
A great movie showing how humanity and kindness still exist. great lesson
and that the nicest of prople also steal. Does no body see the victims here.
You have to watch it again!
LOL he fuxed them for decades robbing the citizens! 😆🤣😂
@@TheBeaker59 Who actually are the victims, then? The visitors expect to pay something at a tourist location. The attendants are usually nice enough and you don't think about them much, so they won't raise any suspicion. Nobody seems to realize it's a free visitor area, so who actually is getting hurt?
@@barbarahecht4617 so being nice entitles people to just take innocent peoples money? It is theft they take cash from families, old people, general public etc they provide no value for their profit.
Thought he was giving it away easy, but it ends more elegantly. Great film! Kudos!
Adore A. Dunbar's work. Awesome.
This one was an absolute delight! Most of us feel the stressors of life and wish someone kind would just give us a leg up.
Ahhhh, we definitely need more films like this!!!!! It's about time we had some positive feel good!!!
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
What a lovely tale and brilliantly acted....... the humanity shines through.
This is still my favourite short of all the ones on the channel. Just a winner.
Provides better service and is more honest than any Politician who you would ever hope to meet.
Best short film I've seen for years. And Adrian Dunbar is a great actor.
This!
He is great in this. Check out his new serious blood
@@challanger275 I thought he looked well, line of duty seemed to be taking it out of him. Lovely short film
Absolutely.
He "owned the car park", and made tons of money because "it was the busiest car park of all". He did them a solid on his way out. (Comment of Warren Hymes). May I add this: he did them a solid, and....has a GOOD HEART.
PS, the suspence of this short film is fabulous. For someone with some ' intuition' I kinda knew from the very beginning it's plot and still having fun watching the supurb acting and timing. And as a result even giving people some sense of Hope.
It's like kids reading a story they know so well just for the pleasure of the 'happy ever after' ending.
You're quite clever !
"something always turns up" fabulous film and acting
Really simple and beautiful. It touches the heart and that's what a film should do
Just watched again after about a year. Same smiles and great appreciation for the story, acting, production!
Enjoyable seeing Mr Dunbar in this delightful and beautifully directed short. Didn’t want it to end!
I needed this one today. Nothing bad in my life, but it cheered me right up!
Beautiful film and story.
Big Thank You to everyone involved 😄
A hi-vis coat can go a long way! Great storyline.
Very good. I love how at 3'08" the message on the bank manager's coffee mug says "Now Panic and Freak Out". Who hasn't had that nerve racking experience?
Apparently he isn’t a fan of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy…
@@zac3392 I am a big fan of THHGTTG! See you at 'The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe'!
@@noelryan6341 42!
Dunbar is a master. Beautiful.
Wonderful film. Love the Irish and their indomitable spirit! 😄👏🏻👏🏻
My Dad lost his job for almost 2 years.
I never knew, but we were 2 months away from being evicted from our home when he found another job. Mom told me when we were clearing out the house, she was preparing to move to a retirement apartment complex.
As a U.S. WW II vet, he had a 2 year extension on the mortgage if her couldn't pay. That's what saved us initially.
He lost his job because he refused to do something illegal his employer ordered him to do.
I once walked out of my job at an accountant's at 09.30 in the morning after being lied to once too often as I had answered an Inland Revenue initial investigation letter. The boss had completely fudged the set of accounts reducing the clients profit from 20,000 £ to 1500£. She had the warped idea that that was her job.
I had to explain why i had left in order to get unemployment while i found another job. My 1st, evasive, answer didnt satisfy. I had to come clean. She got investigated then as well as her clients. I soon got another job.
Unfortunately, in this world honesty, hard work, and integrity in the workplace gets you kicked in the teeth.
Good for him!
Something always turns up. What my dad always said...and his dad said to him. And they were both right.
Yesssch!
Reminds me of Boudewijn Buch telling a story about his father.
People thought he was crazy because in spring and summer he always , dressed like the guy in this film , volunteerly managed the traffic to the Beach of Scheveningen ( the Hague,the Netherlands).
Not that anyone ever asked him to do so , he just did it.
To park a car it was and sometimes still is a bloody hell because of waiting in the sun, kids in the back start to be annoying and so on.
He just let the Dutch cars pass unless it became too obvious then he stopped one , made a small chat and let the jammed traffic slowly drive further.
Too obvious yes.
He only stopped cars with a German licence plate and somehow gave them a ticket for some lousy reason like no seatbelts and minor things like that.
Actually he was the reason of the traffic jam , making a lot of cash.
At the end of the day he always brought it to the Army of Salvation , the Red Cross , an Orphanage or to some families he knew they were very poor.
When someone asked where the money did come frome he said laughing; The Germans love to pay back for what they did to us in the war.
😁
Did a similar thing many years ago, not quite so profitable but our Motorcycle club used to go to the Black Horse pub in Climping, Sussex every Easter weekend and a mate would dress up as a parking attendant and charge two quid to park at the beach carpark (which was free all year round) No-one ever complained and we all got happily pissed and drunk the pub dry! Happy days.
A truly remarkable piece. It should be viewed by millions. Thank you.
Happened in the middle of London I believe. I remember reading about it 25-30 years ago, every one thought it to be a council carpark and the attendant was very well dressed and polite to all in the 20 plus years he ran it.
Charming in that uniquely Irish way.
Totally Brilliant in all respects! Everyone involved in front and behind the cameras should be congratulated on a wonderful film.
The all time BEST SHOW FILM EVER!! My understanding was the attendant was the owner of the most successful car park. That is why when Cathy was calling around to the other car parks telling them there was a need for a new parking attendant they ALL told her they did not own that car park. Because he was the sole employee he had no overhead and saved his money for decades so that he could retire rich at age 50. He was NOT a drug dealer. The bag consisted of coins from the car park. At the end he gave Cathy's husband his job and possibly the company. ( The clues were given when Cathy looked inside the locker and began to reminisce some of the things he had told her, such as "this is my car park" she thought initially that he meant that symbolically as in he took pride in working that car park, however, later after reminiscing his words, she realized it meant it litterally.)
thanks for explaining. I was sort of lost until you explained.
The implication was also that it may not have even been his land, but that no-one had claimed it, so he just charged people to park there ...
Thankss so much for your explanation! If it wasn´t for you, I would have never understood all the questions about Frankie´s money.
What a genius explanation. Almost like you had inside information.
He did not own the car park…20 years ago he set up his own parking attendant job, charging for parking on a lot that belonged to the visitors center. It made him rich enough to retire with a little home by the sea. He passed the torch to Cathy and her husband, so he could earn his living now, and pay their mortgage that was in arrears.
Thats was great, I actually work as an Attendant at a well known visitor attraction. So much grief in my retirement job this made me laff.
That was a wonderful story ! Thank you so much to the writer/director, actors, producers ...everyone !
Yo he robbed those cocksuckers for decades!
This put a tear in my eye. Just lovely.
This is brilliant. I loved it, and with the big plus of having real accents, unlike all those shorts with American and English actors. This is human, humorous, alive, real life, the hypocrite at the bank blaming HO, " my hands are tied". Don't ever get a mortgage. Mortgage comes from two French words. Mort meaning Death, and Gage meaning Grip. Mortgage = Death Grip.
Top-ten short films I’ve ever seen. I’ve always wondered why short films aren’t better. This one is a great model for what they should all be. Thank you very much for sharing. Subscribed.
me too
That coffee cup though
*Now panic and freak out*
Smiling wide real big time at the very end. Its not what I thought would happen - at all. Nope. Brilliant. Well played. I got played with the acting and the words from the script and the story line. Superbly written and superbly acted by everyone in the team. Thank you. A little on the naughty side. But you get that sometimes, and sometimes its without malice.
@@Medietos I thought he was involved with crooks (and obviously to an extent he was haha) but I was glad he wasn’t a hit man, drug dealer etc.
Based on a true story.
Attendant walked away with estimated £7million
This is amazing 🎉 What a story! Great job of the filming crew and actors! 😍🙏🏻
He took enough and not all ,that's why he is my hero
Excellent short film. Well done on all levels. I think I remember this actually happening in a big city in the US a bunch of years ago. Probably is happening right now in a bunch of places. It's an excellent con if u can get away with it.
Cool short. All the clues were there but who would have guessed what it meant ? I certainly didn't!
This is better as all blockbusters the last years. Frankie is a role model to the greedy tyrants of billionaires, suffering of a severe God complex, having brought so much harm over mankind since 2020.
100% true .
Ahh 6:05 "This is my car park" The manager on the phone couldn't get anyone to take responsibilty and ownership of the place! :D
This made me smile, so thank you to whoever made the film, very clever!
Awesome! Kathy owns the largest carpark. What a great script and great acting.
Not the largest carpark - the busiest (big difference). And far from "owned" - the joke is that no-one owned it, he just charged vehicles to park there and no-one questioned him.
@@ApprenticeGMthanks for the explanation
The best film I've seen in a long time. Thank you!
What made it great was he also helped someone in need.
Clever and heart-warming, not to say so totally Irish! Thanks.
No it was true. A Bristol Zoo car park attendant did this for many years, the car park was really free but no one knew.
Note that nowhere does he actually say that he owned the land where the car park was ... It was just that no-one else claimed the land either !
What a lovely film and as my family are from the Rosses it's even better to see a wee bit of Donegal
Hoorah! What a superb tale and awesome performances that made me smile. Thank you to everyone involved. 😊
Haha based on a true story about a bloody legend of a bloke who did it.
So good.
Very well done all involved 👍
Loved it! ❤️ Short, sweet and to the point! A feel-good story with a satisfying twist. Well done! Great acting! 👍
Good movie! My late grandmother came to the U.S. from County Donegal, in the early 1920s, so that was an extra treat.
What an amazing story and such a thought provoking ending. Wonderful, thank you............
What a lovely story! Just goes to show what a bit of initiative can do.
YES!!These short films have everything! Please do not stop making them!
Lovely story
very clever short flim-- shame are'nt more people around like this.....
Left me with a smile on my face.
Loved it. Thank you to the producers, writer(s), players and all involved 🙂
brought tears to my eyes...
Sunday morning beautiful.
Uplifting,gentle,humorous,caring,and warming.
Just like all the Irish people I've ever met.
This is MY carpark.. Halfway in im beginning to think this mans skimming for 20 years or it is actually his carp park €€€
That made me chuckle. Seeing Pat’s wave and a smile. 😂I’m sure that scenario did happen somewhere else. Good luck to “Frankie”.
It did the car park outside Bristol zoo uk
The best idea employment idea ever
Excellent job from everyone involved in this short film...and what a legend the guy is in the real story to just employ himself in someone else's car park and to be fair he earned 100% of the profit so at least he was a decent employer aswell 🤔 hahaha
Nicely written...patient with everything always turns something up never give up on any struggle joy will always come thereafter.
How wonderful, thank you so much for sharing that absolute gem of a heart-warmer!
What a fab short film. Giants Causeway is fab place to visit. Adrian Dunbar is a great actor...
Oh my. This literally gave me chills. What a glorious film!
That was a lovely little film... charming, funny and compelling - not bad for 11 minutes! Brilliant stuff.
lol. I didn't see that coming! Nice finish. "This is my carpark" indeed...