Bleach
- IMDb link: 0144795
- IMDb rating: 6.8 (53 votes)
- Genres: Sci-Fi, Thriller, Short
- Director: Bill Platt
- Cast: Michael Peter Bolus, John Adams Jr., Kathy Cullen, Robert Dolan and others
- Release year: 1998
- Runtime: 30 minutes
- Country: United States
- Keywords: police, experimental drug, futuristic, new york city, trauma, memory, independent film
Plot:
In the NYC Police Department of the near future, traumatic on-the-job situations, like accidental shootings, are dealt with by using a new drug called "Bleach", so that the officer in question does not have to leave the job, end up committed, or even kill themselves. To avoid post-traumatic stress syndrome the drug is administered immediately after the incident and it causes the user to "forget" the last twelve hours of their life. They can then be transfered to another precinct, or even retire, and no one, but their supervisors, ever know what happened. But in this future of technology everything is recorded on micro-video and archived for the courts; so what would happen if a "Bleach officer" found his recording? What if there were more than one?