 In this documentary about conducting effective business meetings, John Cleese plays a moderately competent but bumbling middle manager. In a nightmare dream sequence, he is put on trial for wasting other employees  time by not conducting effective meetings. The action starts with Cleese standing in the defendant s dock being questioned by the prosecutor. As each charge is read, the action switches to a dramatization of the mistakes Cleese s character made in various meetings, then to a scene depicting the proper handling of the situation. At the end of the film, Cleese, like Scrooge, wakes from his dream a presumably wiser man. Throughout the dramatization scenes, an appropriate balance between humor and instruction makes this much more watchable and interesting than the usual business/motivational film. Released in 16mm film format as well as video.