Mr. Sycamore

as long as we're skipping down memory lane, a little subplot in tonight's AMERICAN DAD (which I don't usually watch) reminded me of a film I remember watching as a child.

i don't remember much about this film, except that it featured a man who desperately wants to become a tree. plants his feet in soil and everything. at the very end, despite all logic, he becomes a tree. i remember when i was a kid, i always found that ending really strange and kind of sad, for some reason.

via some very clever internet searching, i discovered that this film was called "Mr. Sycamore". it was a 1975 TV movie starring Jason Robards that was based on a play published in 1942.

i don't know how many times i actually saw that movie as a kid, but few enough that the memory of it seems like a dream. yet, the internet tells me that it existed. but it seems obscure enough that i could probably steal the idea without anyone knowing. not that it's an idea worth stealing, per se.

i don't want to go to work tomorrow.