Lifetime Guarantee: Phranc's Adventures in Plastic

Lifetime Guarantee: Phranc's Adventures in Plastic tells the sort of story that, if it weren't completely true, would sound like a implausible piece of fiction.

Jewish lesbian folk singer Phranc wanted to spend more time with her partner and young daughter. Her break from touring necessitated a new source of income. The answer was selling Tupperware.

Throwing herself into selling Tupperware with characteristic enthusiasm and a genuine belief in its ability to improve people's lives, Phranc soon adds "Tupperware Lady" to her already long list of identities.

She pens songs to the virtues of the product, appears on the Donnie and Marie Osmond Show promoting Tupperware graters and ice cube trays, and soon rates as the second best agent in the country, bettered only by one of her Los Angeles colleague.

I was expecting this documentary to be worthy but dull tokenism or a freakshow piece. But thanks to filmmaker Lisa Udelson's wise decision to focus on Phranc as Tupperware Lady, only engaging with her other identities as they relate to this, and Phranc's own winning personality, I was pleasantly surprised.

Yes, Phranc's sexual orientation is important. But, from the opening sequences contrasting the ideal feminine tupperwoman of a 50s training films with the flat-topped, suit wearing Phranc, to the sad finale where Phranc is snubbed by a Tupperware hierarchy that finds her a touch too unconventional, Udelson's treatment is hardly ever heavy-handed or mocking. The result is a pretty remarkable portrayal of a pretty remarkable person.