A Hard Day's Day - A Day in the Life of a Beatles Tribute Band (found parody film; 2002)

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Hard Day's Day poster.jpg

Poster/DVD cover of "A Hard Day's Day".

Status: Found

Date found: 7 Aug 2011

Found by: Quinton Flynn and DiaRiles


The panel itself (movie starts at around 3:20)

A Hard Day's Day was a short parody film made in 2002 that was created by David Kessler and Quinton Flynn (who also played Paul in the film). The film was, as the subtitle describes, about a day in the life of a Beatles tribute band. And, as the title itself alludes to, it was a parody of the Beatles' own "A Hard Day's Night".

The idea came to Kessler some time before 2000 after seeing a Beatles cover band in real life and wondering if they "kept up the accents off stage". He thought the idea was so funny, that he talked to a friend about making it into a film, but they agreed it wasn't "weighty" enough. In the year 2000, however, he came to the realization that he could make it a short film instead. After coming to that conclusion, he got some friends together after failing to get said cover band in on it and proceeded to make the film. Two years later, he put the film up on iFilm and it was met with general positivity, becoming one of the highest rated comedy shorts on said site.

Despite its positive reception and being screened multiple times in LA, little to no footage of it has surfaced on the internet, the website that originally hosted the video is dead, and the DVD, by proxy, (which may not have contained the actual video itself as it was more of a "behind-the-scenes" DVD) can't be bought anymore and is therefore incredibly rare, if there were any produced at all. However, Quinton Flynn gave a surprise screening during his panel at AFO 2011, and said panel has been put on Youtube (video to the right), meaning it's available for full viewing again (albeit in low quality).


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