Cinema Toast

7.0
202130m

Re-edited and re-scored footage from public domain films, overdubbed with performances of contemporary actors to tell new, wholly original stories.

Production

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Trailers & Videos

Thumbnail for video: Cinema Toast (2021) Official Trailer | SHOWTIME

Cinema Toast (2021) Official Trailer | SHOWTIME

Thumbnail for video: Cinema Toast (2021) Official Teaser | SHOWTIME

Cinema Toast (2021) Official Teaser | SHOWTIME

Seasons

10 Episodes • Premiered 2021

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1. Familiesgiving

8.0

A young couple, John and Jane, have their sacred Friendsgiving upended when John’s overbearing mom forces an invite and makes it all about her. John, fearing his contentious mom will make a horrible scene as usual and ruin the holiday, decides to enlist his dad in a harebrained scheme to minimize the damage. Despite his best and most ridiculous efforts, things go off the rails anyway...

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2. Report on the Canine Auto-Mechanical Soviet Threat

6.0

A young boy falls victim to America’s biggest threat: the importation of reanimated Russian dog corpses that can communicate with machinery and vehicles.

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3. Quiet Illness

4.0

Johanna flashes in and out of fantasy as she grapples with her inescapable fate at the hands of her husband.

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4. After the End

6.0

In the aftermath of their latest kill, a team of monster hunters realizes the true monsters are amongst themselves.

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5. The Cowboy President

5.0

Loosely based on the true story of two operatives who went to the White House to determine if Ronald Reagan was mentally impaired. Instead, they found that he was severely depressed, watching movies all day and NOT doing his job—at all.

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6. Kiss, Marry, Kill

A sorcerer creates a potion that allows Vivian to shape-shift into any person and kiss, marry or kill anyone she pleases in a single day.

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7. Warehouse Friends

Workers in a big box warehouse facility decide to pursue better working conditions – they journey to a jungle river to confront their CEO, who is vacationing there.

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8. Attack of the Karens

Zombies are reimagined as suburban women with a lot of complaints.

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9. One Gay Wedding and a Thousand Funerals

After gay marriage is legalized, one man in a small town is determined that the only logical response is to convince the straight men and women to throw themselves off a tall ladder in protest.

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10. The Gunshot Heard 'Round the World

A riff on film noir via a fever dream landscape that folds the audience in and out of narratives and a series of flashbacks, meticulously and abstractly threaded together by three protagonists. Series finale.

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