The Six Dollar Fifty Man (Mark Albiston & Louis Sutherland, 2009)

Kudos, at least, for packing an awful 90 minute formula of the bullied school kid overcoming obstacles to get the girl and win his classmates' respect into a 15 minute movie. I don't have much positive to say besides applauding its brevity. Nor much to say at all, really. It's sappy, rote and filled with a dim kind of nostalgia for the simplicity of youth. Exactly the kind of short film I would expect to be nominated for an Oscar (and it was).