Aldo (Jarrod Weintraub) and Jennifer (Rebecca Seubert) are attending a motivational lecture for work, but the upside is that they are attending it in Las Vegas. After a day of being bored by the speakers, Aldo lies on his hotel room bed flicking through channels of nothing he wishes to watch when his telephone rings. It's Jennifer on the line, and she suggests he pay her a visit in her room, as she's just opened the minibar and he, having nothing better to do, agrees. However, what should be a night of aimless amusement turns more serious when it becomes clear that Jennifer has something else in mind...
Not to be confused with the other short film called Flip that was released around the same time, this Flip was a low budget effort shot mostly in a hotel room or two, with an interlude of its two stars wandering around Vegas thrown in for good measure, although for a change there's no montage of huge neon signs to let us, the viewers, know where we are. We just have to take the filmmakers' word for it. Scripted by the director Carleton Torpin, it's a light drama with a bittersweet ending, wisely filmed without much in the way of flashiness, opting to let the story speak for itself.
It's a tale of thwarted love, really, with Jennifer tempting Aldo out of her hotel room with the promise of, erm, a walk around town drinking out of very tall glasses. One thing leads to another, and before you can say "Britney Spears" the tipsy couple have been married at a ten minute chapel, for the reason that Jennifer thinks they can have the union annulled the next day and a marriage will be good for their individual prospects, or so she says. However, after this they go back to Jennifer's room and everyone knows you can't annul a marriage that's been consummated, leading to an uncomfortable atmosphere the next day. Flip is told with economy and at just fifteen minutes doesn't outstay its welcome, and the mirror trick is clever, although perhaps a shade less ambiguity for the ending might have helped.
[The Flip DVD should come in handy as a guide for budding filmmakers, as it's filled with featurettes detailing all the aspects of production.]
