Sep 29, 2026 · 24 min · 11 segments
In this episode of Short Ends, we chat about Nancy Savoca's student film, "Bad Timing", a story of two adolescents with dreams of bigger and better lives, that learn some tough lessons while trying to…
Oh, so those jokes probably mean nothing to you as of yet, but tonight we are talking about bad timing.
Actually, I believe in 1986, I didn't write down the year, 1986 short film directed and written by...
It's
actually 1983.
Oh.
Not to be confused with the feature film from 1980 by the same name.
Yeah, good call.
All of my searches wanted me to watch over this student film.
Yes, this is not the Nicholas Rogue bad timing 1980 feature film.
This is Nancy Savoka's student film, Bad Timing.
Second one.
Second student film.
Good call out.
Written, I guess, co-written by Nancy Savoka.
And it seems like her longtime writing partner, Richard Guy or Gway.
I think it's Richard Guy, though, is how that's pronounced.
I could be wrong.
Who knows? And starring basically a pretty limited cast, you know, of main characters here.
We've got Kelly Sinante as Denise.
We've got Joey Diarelli as Bobby.
And...
This is a story of a 13-year-old boy named Bobby who takes his platonic life mate girlfriend, if you will, Denise, on a journey to Hollywood that really gets them about as far as New Jersey.
Where do
Oh, so those jokes probably mean nothing to you as of yet, but tonight we are talking about bad timing.
Actually, I believe in 1986, I didn't write down the year, 1986 short film directed and written by...
It's
actually 1983.
Oh.
Not to be confused with the feature film from 1980 by the same name.
Yeah, good call.
All of my searches wanted me to watch over this student film.
Yes, this is not the Nicholas Rogue bad timing 1980 feature film.
This is Nancy Savoka's student film, Bad Timing.
Second one.
Second student film.
Good call out.
Written, I guess, co-written by Nancy Savoka.
And it seems like her longtime writing partner, Richard Guy or Gway.
I think it's Richard Guy, though, is how that's pronounced.
I could be wrong.
Who knows? And starring basically a pretty limited cast, you know, of main characters here.
We've got Kelly Sinante as Denise.
We've got Joey Diarelli as Bobby.
And...
This is a story of a 13-year-old boy named Bobby who takes his platonic life mate girlfriend, if you will, Denise, on a journey to Hollywood that really gets them about as far as New Jersey.
Where do
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