Toe Thompson and his newfound friends must join forces to save their town of Black Falls from itself, discovering along the way that what you wish for is not always what you want in this madcap fantasy from director Robert Rodriquez.
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play. A fantastical story, relayed in the form of short vignettes by director Robert Rodriguez, Shorts is the story of a magic wishing rock and kids' imaginations gone wild. The film plays a lot like the The Little Rascals films from the 1920's-1940's. It's made up of short, comical episodes that focus on kids' adventures and how imagination drives their play. When a magical rainbow rock falls from the sky and lands in the middle of tech-town Black Falls, a young boy Toe (Jimmy Bennett) discovers that the rock has the power to grant his every wish. The victim of constant bullying, Toe wishes for friends as unusual as himself and ends up with a posse of aliens who protect him while seriously complicating his life. As narrator, Toby quickly stops the film, explaining that his experience is really the middle of the story, and then rewinds repeatedly to relate various encounters between neighbourhood kids and the magic rock. Each short is its own journey into a kid's imagination where wishes for everything from a treasure hunt, to a fortress guarded by crocodiles, a super smart baby with telepathic powers, and a booger monster grown from one boy's booger are immediately granted. These fantastical wishes wreak havoc on the entire Black Falls community: the children, the technology obsessed, disconnected Black Box employees, and the tyrannical Black Box boss Mr. Black (James Spader).
Family fantasy directed by Robert Rodriguez. Toe Thompson is an ordinary 11-year-old boy who is eager for a little excitement to brighten up his days in the town of Black Falls where life revolves around the town's booming industry, the production of Mr Black's Black Box, a communications gadget that is a must-have for every household in America, but is of little interest to Toe. When Toe receives a bump on the head, courtesy of a strange rainbow-coloured rock, things get considerably more exciting as this special rock can grant its holder any wish he or she desires. As more and more wishes are granted, the town reels in the aftermath, with spaceships and crocodiles running wild. When word gets out about the rock and its power, the adults of Black Falls are determined to get their hands on it and this spells real trouble, so Toe and his friends must try and stop the wishes getting even more out of control in order to save their town.
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