About the production
A British dark comedy feature about the man with the tray.
The story
Kevin Prescott has carried trays at Hartwell House, a grand country-house wedding venue, for eleven years. He's kind, he's tidy, he says good morning to his spider plant, and in all that time nobody at a wedding has ever once looked at him.
Invisibility, it turns out, is a marketable skill. Kevin goes into business destroying the weddings of people who deserve it, and business is very good indeed. Right up until a contract arrives that he should never have taken.
Told from the pulpit
The whole film is Kevin's eulogy at his mother's funeral, delivered to a room that cannot leave. Some of the mourners are people whose weddings he ruined. He starts out still justifying himself, still getting laughs, still slightly proud. Bit by bit, he stops lying to the room.
The tone
Steve Martin's warmth with a shot of Steve Carell's unearned confidence: a man completely convinced he's doing the right thing, played dead straight. Big, Meet the Parents-sized set-pieces with real heart underneath.
Where it's at
The feature screenplay is in active development.
