Plot Summary
An enigmatic young musician becomes the captive audience for a crusty old cab driver’s dirty story on the taxi ride from hell.
Director/Writer
Joe Lonie
Awards
Show Me Shorts Film Festival
Best Film 2013
Best Actor 2013 - Andy Anderson
Best Screen Play 2013 - Joe Lonie
Best Director 2012
Nz Film Awards
Best Film Short Film 2012
Best script Short Film 2012
Best Actor Short Film 2012
Plot
Too quick to judge a book by its cover
Honk if You’re Horny is a ribald comedy about tall stories and our bizarre need to pretend to be something we’re not, as well as the folly of being too quick to judge a book by its cover.
On a rainy night in Auckland city, an enigmatic young musician gets into a cheap, low-rent taxicab. The crusty old cabbie takes one look at this slick young man with his guitar case and chooses to think of him as an oversexed, rock and roll party animal.
Trying to impress his passenger, the cabbie launches into a graphic recounting of a sexual misadventure he participated in “just the other night”.
About
The driver’s story is undeniably compelling
While it is obscene and highly inappropriate, the driver’s story is undeniably compelling, but as the details become increasingly more hilarious and outrageous, it gets harder to believe.
The passenger has no choice but to listen, and hold on for dear life, as he becomes a captive audience for the driver’s obscenities during a hair-raising cab ride from hell, including a high-speed cop chase and a frightening run-in with a car-load of homicidal Westies! The passenger grits his teeth and toughs it out, wondering how he can get back at the driver for polluting his ears and putting him through such a life-threatening ordeal. When he finally arrives at his destination, the passenger’s identity and true calling are at last fully revealed, and he gets his opportunity.