Dalmatian is a short film, starring Jack Shea as Doug and Ashley Shea as Carol,  written and directed by Mike Messier that has also been performed twice as a stage-play. The piece is about a couple that meets initially in 1980 at a coffee house and reunites twenty seven years later, after their marriage has ended. Through the course of the conversation, we learn that Doug has missed out on many of the most important aspects of his own life and that Carol might have made the mistake of trying to make him the type of man he simply was not meant to be.