Naples International Film Festival 2011

Allen and Collette have been married for four years, but maintained separate apartments about 20 blocks from each other in New York City. When financial pressures force Allen to move in with Collette, issues of privacy, independence and bathroom usage call into question the viability of relationships in the modern age. Collette's one-bedroom apartment in Greenwich Village, where she has lived since the late 1970s, certainly has its quirks. There's no bathroom, per se; there's a stall shower in the kitchen, the kitchen sink is the only sink in the apartment, and there's a toilet off of Collette's bedroom. But the third-floor walk-up is rent controlled, which means the couple can't afford to give it up. So, instead of looking for a larger apartment, Allen will have to shoehorn himself into Collette's space.As moving day approaches, Allen and Collette decide they will maintain separate 'apartments' within Collette's apartment: Allen will move into the living room, Collette will keep the bedroom, they will install sliding doors for privacy, and on the weekends, Allen can move into Collette's bedroom. Two's A Crowd, a comedic, documentary short, is a character study of two classic New Yorkers: Allen, a witty Coney Island native in the vein of Larry David or Woody Allen; and Collette, a brash Italian-American who teaches English in Harlem. Together, they form a perfectly offbeat couple that forces the audience to reexamine the true meaning of love, marriage and cohabitation.