Shorts DVD

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & 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 & 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 & how imagination drives their play When a magical rainbow rock falls from the sky & 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 & 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 & then rewinds repeatedly to relate various encounters between neighbourhood kids & 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 & 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 & the tyrannical Black Box boss Mr Black (James Spader)