The tragicomedy of a 'loser' in a pay toilet, in which a dignified Madison Avenue executive enters a men's room in response to a biological urge, only to discover that he doesn't have the necessary change for the pay toilet. After borrowing a coin, he begins his appointed task, then finds that his stall is out of toilet paper. One misadventure leads to another until he is ready to emerge and finds that the stall lock is jammed, and he can't get out. Over the closing titles, we hear him ultimately committing suicide by flushing himself down the toilet. A droll farce produced by a rising yound Detroit filmmaker. 'KRASNER, NORMAN is one of the better person-versus-technology resources, a tremendously funny (but tastefully done) piece of satire on America's vending machine mentality. Krasner's only companion in the pay toilet is an expensive book of great art reproductions. Several pages are ripped out and put to emergency use; the rest of the book remains in the stall - a gaudy but useless possession of a man who needs human assistance, but who can get no one to answer his cries for help. It is appropriate somehow that both a human being and his fine arts are trapped together as technology asserts its control over the most personal of life functions. Highly recommended for studies on the nature of contemporary society.' - THE CATECHIST (Also available in 35mm.)
[Source: Creative Film Society Catalog, 1975]