Haiku Tunnel  DVD Comedy Written by Tara O'Shea    Tuesday, 26
February 2002  Haiku Tunnel  Columbia/TriStar Home Entertainment
MPAA rating: R starring: Josh Kornbluth, Warren Keith, Helen
Shumaker, Amy Resnick, Brian Thorstenson, June Lomena, Sarah
Overman, Joe Bellan, Harry Shearer release year: 2001 film
rating: Three Stars sound/picture: Three Stars reviewed by: Tara
O'Shea  Co-directed by brothers Josh and Jacob Kornbluth, "Haiku
Tunnel" chronicles Josh Kornbluth's journey from footloose and
fancy free temp to "perm" secretary for a high-powered San
Francisco tax lawyer. With constant voiceovers and frequent cuts
to Kornbluth himself with anecdotes and flashbacks, the audience
follows the saga of Josh as he attempts to get 17 very important
letters mailed with the aide of his fellow S&M secretaries.
Hilarity ensues, at least for anyone in the audience who has
ever worked as a temporary executive assistant.  Based on one of
Kornbluth's monologues, the film has some fantastical elements
-- not the least of