Two Legged Rat Bastards - CacheFly

Two Legged Rat Bastards is a short film based on the short story by Daniel Wallace (Big Fish) detailing the strange estrangement of anelderly father and his son. Set on a park bench in the present day, Eddie, a cantankerous old alcoholic, attempts to connect with his sonWinstead, who’s spent the majority of his adult life trying to get away from him. In the course of their conversation Eddie reveals howhe lost his leg - in a high stakes poker game 30 years ago - at which point the story flashes back to the game itself, where a young Eddiegambles fiercely against a table full of miscreants in a game where money changes hands and hands change hands, along with eyes,ears, feet and more. In the present day Winstead has a hard time understanding why his father would bet his leg in a poker game, but atthe same time he feels like his father is being honest with him for the first time in their lives, and it resonates with him. As we continueflashing back to the big game it’s revealed that after Eddie lost his leg, he battled back to win something much more valuable: His son.