Watch Paul Rudd Get Cold Dissed in a 1992 Student Film

Paul Rudd’s pre-fame roots have been well-documented. There was his stint as Bat Mitzvah DJ. There was an awesomely dated Super Nintendo commercial from 1991. And of course we all know about his breakout role in 1995’s Clueless. That same year he also had a starring role in the beyond shark-jumped sequel Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers.

We’ve stumbled across another lost gem from Rudd’s formative years: the student short Picture Perfect, which you can watch above. Posted on Vimeo by its director, Theo Burkhardt, the silent black-and-white film stars Rudd as a flower-thieving photographer straddling a fine line between earnest admirer and creepy voyeur as he pursues a young woman through a botanical garden… before getting totally dissed.

Little did she know that whippersnapper in the backwards hat would be Ant-Man one day.