Press Kit
Rocket Rob
A dad who might be a superhero — or might just be trying his best.
Animated Feature · ~90 min · In Development · A Dish Towel Pictures Film
The story behind the story.
It starts with a dish towel. An eight-year-old ties one around his dad’s shoulders and decides he’s a superhero — and for a while, the whole world agrees. The leaky sink becomes a fifty-foot monster. The family car becomes a rocket. A tired dad, running on coffee and good intentions, becomes Rocket Rob, the greatest hero the city has ever seen.
None of it is real. All of it is true. The powers are a child’s imagination, and the film commits to that belief completely — no winking, no air quotes — because to the boy narrating it, the cape is a cape.
And then, somewhere in the middle of the film, the boy stops narrating. Not in anger. He just… outgrows it, the way kids do, a little sooner than they should when a parent keeps missing the moments that matter. The magic goes quiet. The hero becomes a tired man in a kitchen again. That silence — the sound of a child’s belief running out — is the truest thing in the movie, and it’s the reason the studio is named after a dish towel.
Kids will see a superhero. Parents will see themselves. That gap is the whole film.
Loglines
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A dad who might be a superhero — or might just be trying his best.
Logline
An ordinary dad becomes the greatest superhero in the world — but only in the imagination of his eight-year-old son. When the boy stops believing, the magic goes with him, and Rob has to find a courage that was never really borrowed from a child's faith.
Synopsis
Eight-year-old Max is certain his dad is the greatest superhero alive. When Max narrates, the ordinary world transforms — the leaky sink becomes a villain, the family car becomes a rocket, a dish towel becomes a cape. The film commits to that belief completely, without winking.
Then the job starts winning. A missed bedtime. A missed hockey game. The seat beside his son stays empty — and one day Max simply stops narrating. No narration. No powers. Just a tired dad in a kitchen.
To find his way back, Rob has to discover a courage no one is imagining for him anymore — and finally see the wife who’s been holding it all together, an extraordinary life of her own folded quietly out of sight.
Two audiences. Same film.
What kids see
A superhero dad with a dish-towel cape who battles a giant made of kitchen pipes, flies across the city, and saves the day before bedtime.
What parents see
A man choosing between a promotion and his family. A mother who set aside an extraordinary life and holds the whole house together, unnoticed. An empty seat at a hockey game.
Fast facts
- Title
- Rocket Rob
- Studio
- Dish Towel Pictures
- Created by
- Jack Autrel
- Format
- Animated feature film
- Runtime
- ~90 minutes
- Genre
- Family / Adventure / Drama
- Audience
- Kids 6–12 and their parents
- Status
- In development
- In the key of
- Inside Out · The Incredibles · Up
Press assets
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About Dish Towel Pictures
Dish Towel Pictures is an independent film studio for stories about the extraordinary hiding inside ordinary life — where the cape is a dish towel, the rocket is the family car, and the hero is whoever decided to show up. The studio builds films designed to work on two levels at once: the thing on the surface, and the quieter, truer thing underneath it that you only catch the second time. Rocket Rob, an animated feature, is its first film.
Founded and run by Jack Autrel. We make one thing at a time. We make it like it matters.
Press & Inquiries
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