Dear Rosie
- Fiona Victory: Rosie
- Terence Wilton: Robert
- Remy Beard: Jake
- Roger Hammond: Bernard
- Su Elliot: Esther
- Belinda Mayne: Tanya
- Ricky Damond: interior designer
- Sally Farmiloe: publisher
Dear Rosie is a British short film by Peter Cattaneo from the year 1990.
Action
Rosie has her novel Ten Days on a Crucifix completed, but tries her agent Bernard vain to find a publisher. Since a diet proposal Rosie very well struck with him, he is the diet instructions also to a publisher on, the prompt for 250,000 pounds the UK rights for the book secures that appears under the title The Armchair Slimmer. The book is a great success and makes Rosie to a rich woman. She buys a house that lets them set up noble. With her son, Jake, also attracts a; Rosie was once abandoned by her husband, Robert, for the blonde Tanya. The following lecture tours, book signings and fan letters from enthusiastic readers who were able to successfully lose weight through the book.
With the success of the problems come: son Jake is being blackmailed in the School of overweight students. Robert checks in with Rosie and pretends they still love to be abandoned by Tanya and also to have as a painter no success. Rosie gets involved with him, he goes to her house and in parallel to his relationship with Tanya continued that he had never finished. One day, Rosie Tanya receives a letter in which she makes clear to her that they both live with the same man. In addition, the letters from desperate readers who have not kept up the diet, citizens' groups, who argue for the acceptance of obesity and of Bernard, who is pushing for a new band diet accumulate. Rosie has had enough and is moving without someone to name their new address. In addition, it assumes the new name Catherine Gray. It revises Ten Days on a Crucifix, and sends the book under a new name to a publisher.
Production
Dear Rosie was co-produced by Channel 4 and World's End Productions. The costumes created Kimberley Lockie, the Filmbauten come from Max Gottlieb. The film saw 1990 at the London Film Festival premiere of his and ran among others in October 1991 at the Chicago International Film Festival.
Awards
Dear Rosie was nominated in 1991 for Best Short film for an Oscar in the category. The film won at the Chicago International Film Festival 1991 Golden Plaque for the best short film. In the same year he was nominated for a BAFTA for Best Short Film.