My Life in Film is a British television situation-comedy series written by Mark Chappell and originally aired on BBC Three.
Some of the show's humour is derived from the deliberate adaptation of these films to everyday settings, leading to preposterous results.
[2] The main character, Art Chapel (played by Kris Marshall) is an aspiring low-budget film-maker with an overactive imagination.
He is continually coming up with ideas for storylines, and has written many scripts of apparently dubious quality.
Under the watchful eye of Jones, Art breaks into the flat opposite, only to return as clue-less as before.
Especially Johnson: this ice-cold learner driver takes an instant dislike to Art.
In the aftermath of the goldfish's untimely death, Art discovers an insignificant sum of money down the back of the sofa.
Our trio agrees to put it back, but an atmosphere of deceit and betrayal soon descends on the household.
Suspicions multiply and tempers fray as guilt and greed propel the story to its bloody conclusion.
The initial flurry of ambitious, original ideas soon gives way to a mammoth existential crisis.
In search of inspiration, Art embarks on a filmmaker's odyssey through a sea of dream, memory, fantasy and beautiful women.
But it is in the depths of his despair that he finds a ray of hope in the most unlikely of sources... An attempt to defraud the bank incurs the wrath of a super-posse of postmen.
With nowhere left to hide, Art tries to persuade Jones to start a new life together on the Isle of Man.