MISFIT

Can Flannery O’Connor’s classic short story, “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” be successfully turned into a 90-second film?

In the story, a family on a road trip (circa 1953) is brutally slain by a escaped criminal known only as The Misfit—a man who is angry with Christ for having given no lingering, physical evidence for His existence, therefore casting doubt about the legitimacy of Christianity.

The Misfit is angry because he does not want to waste his life serving a figure who may not exist, nor does he want to displease an almighty God who may exist.

He settles on the idea that "There's no pleasure but meanness."

When the Misfit finishes the murders, he takes a moment to assess his last victim, the grandmother. "She would have been a good woman...if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life."