SHORTS

Year: 2009
USA: Warner Bros Pictures
UK: Warner Bros Pictures International UK
Cast: John Cryer, William H Macy, Leslie Mann, James Spader, Jimmy Bennett, Kat Dennings, Trevor Gagnon, Leo Howard, Devon Gearhart, Rebel Rodriguez, Jake Short, Jolie Vanier, Angela Lanza, Alejandro Rose-Garcia
Director: Robert Rodriguez
Countries: USA / United Arab Emirates
USA & UK: 89 mins
USA Rated: PG for mild action and some rude humor
UK Certificate: 12A contains comic threat and mild crude humour
USA Release Date: 7 August 2009
UK Release Date: 21 August 2009
UK Release Date: 14/15 August 2009


Synopsis

11 year-old Toe Thompson (Jimmy Bennett) is the target of the bullies in the suburban community of Black Falls. Everyone in the town works for Black Box Industries - the 'in' gadget sweeping the nation and on everyone's shopping list.

However, when a freak storm hits the town, a mysterious Rainbow Rock falls from the sky and grants wishes to anyone that finds it. The hometown Joe considers weird already, has just got a whole lot weirder, as the Rainbow Rock ricochets around the neighbourhood from kid to kid and parent to parent unleashing a chaotic torrent of wishes that come true from tiny aliens to giant boogers.

From Robert Rodriguez (SPY KIDS trilogy) comes a magical fantasy adventure told through a series of 'shorts' that each brings to life the sometimes wonderful, often terrible, and totally out of control wishes that become far more that Toe and his neighbours ever imagined possible.