CHEATIN – Short Trailer from Bill Plympton on Vimeo.
In a fateful bumper car collision, Jake and Ella meet and become the most loving couple in the long history of Romance. But when a scheming “other” woman drives a wedge of jealousy into their perfect courtship, insecurity spells out an untimely fate. With only the help of a disgraced magician and his forbidden “soul machine”, Ella takes the form of Jake’s numerous lovers, desperately fighting through malfunction and deceit as they try to reclaim their destiny.
CHEATIN’ is an award-winning, surreal animated adult tale of love, jealousy, revenge, and murder, inspired by the work of James M. Cain (“Double Indemnity”, “The Postman Always Rings Twice”). CHEATIN’ is the seventh animated feature film for the Academy Award nominated Bill Plympton, long considered to be the “King of Indie Animation.”