Mr. Marmalade Mr. Marmalade is a dark satire about a precocious 4-year-old named Lucy and her imaginary friend, Mr. Marmalade. When he misses his tea party date (again), she throws him over for the suicidal five-year-old next door, creating a tangle love triangle replete with food fights, hard-partying businessmen and a briefcase full of girly magazines. It's a whirlwind tour of love, loss and epic dysfunction, illuminating with comic bravado the shadowy zone between the adult world and the children who must try to make sense of it.