Where’s the exit!

The family of the Pulitzer-winning playwright Paul Zindel is suing the director of the Oscar-tipped film The Shape Of Water for allegedly stealing his idea.

They claim the Sixties Cold War tale of a lonely cleaner who falls in love with a man-fish held in a secret laboratory is ‘in 61 ways almost identical’ to a play he wrote in 1969. having seen the movie I’d say they must be right — no two people could possibly have dreamt up such a bizarre and incomprehensible concept.

The film’s hailed as a metaphor for an outsiders searching for love.

My friends and I ended up searching all right — for the cinema exit sign, long before the lights went up.