Overnight Sensation
1984 · 0h 28m
Unless you're a devoted short film completist or Oscar-nominated cinema enthusiast, skip this one. At 6.9 IMDb, it's a decent curiosity from 1984, but there's plenty of better ways to spend your evening than watching a jealous husband spiral over his wife's literary success.
Plot
Overnight Sensation is a 1984 short film directed by Jon Bloom, based loosely on W. Somerset Maugham's short story "The Colonel's Lady." After housewife Eve Peregrine writes a sudden hit novel, her husband George, a successful fashion photographer, finds it difficult to deal with the attention being showered on her. His difficulty in getting through the book increases when he begins to suspect that the steamy affair in its plot is drawn from her real life. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.