From the director of Spy Kids comes the comedy adventure Shorts, a not-so-tall tale about a rock that falls from the sky that gets picked up by the boy who made a wish that changed a town forever.
Written
and directed by Robert Rodriguez, Shorts stars Jon Cryer, William H.
Macy, Leslie Mann, James Spader, Jimmy Bennett, Kat Dennings, Trevor
Gagnon, Devon Gearhart, Leo Howard, Rebel Rodriguez, Jake Short and
Jolie Vanier.
In Black Falls, all the houses look the same and everyone works
for Black Box Unlimited Worldwide Industries Incorporated. In this spleepy town, Mr.
Black's Black Box is the ultimate communication and do-it-all gadget
that's sweeping America.
Other
than keeping his parents employed (Cryer, Mann), however, Mr. Black's
Black Box has done nothing for 11-year-old Toe Thompson (Bennett), who
just wants to make a few friends...until a mysterious rainbow-colored
rock falls from the sky, hits him in the head and changes everything. The Rainbow Rock does Mr. Black's Black Box one better: it grants wishes to anyone who holds it.
The
Rainbow Rock ricochets through the neighborhood, wreaking havoc in the
lives of the other underage misfits in the town—including mischievous
brothers Loogie (Gagnon), Lug (Rodriguez) and Laser (Howard);
germophobic genius Nose Noseworthy (Short); and bullying siblings
Helvetica (Vanier) and Cole (Gearhart) Black, who rule their school the
way their father, Mr. Black (Spader), rules the town.
Before
long, wishes-gone-wrong have left the neighborhood swarming with tiny
spaceships, crocodile armies, giant boogers...and outrageous magical
mayhem around every corner.
But it's not until the grown-ups get their hands on the Rock that the trouble really starts. Now
Toe and his newfound friends must join forces to save their town from
itself, discovering along the way that what you wish for is not always
what you want.
The
film is produced by Elizabeth Avellán and Rodriguez, with Dan Lin, Hunt
Lowry and Stacy Cohen serving as executive producers. As
he often does, Rodriguez serves as his own director of photography,
editor, visual effects supervisor and composer on the film.
Opening soon across the Philippines, Shorts is distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company.