What is the basic plot of the movie “Shorts”?”
Shorts (also known as Shorts: The Adventures of the Wishing Rock poster title) is a 2009 family comedy/adventure film written and directed by Robert Rodriguez. It was released in the United States on August 21st, 2009. A Nintendo DS video game of the same name was announced on June 23, 2009, with a prospective July release date in advance of the movie. Chaos hits a uniformly “perfect” family neighborhood when an 11-year-old boy (Jimmy Bennett) finds a rainbow-colored rock that grants wishes to anyone who holds it.
Synopsis for Shorts (2009) ‘Shorts’ is set in the suburb of Black Falls, where all the houses look the same and everyone works for BLACK BOX Unlimited Worldwide Industries Incorporated, whose Mr. Black’s BLACK BOX is the ultimate communication and do-it-all gadget that’s sweeping the nation. Other than keeping his parents employed, however, Mr. Black’s BLACK BOX has done nothing for 11-year-old Toe Thompson, 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. 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
Shorts focuses on an 11-year-old (Jimmy Bennett) with multiple tormentors and a rainbow-colored rock that grants wishes. As with many such stories, the rock proves not to be a one-step solve-all as it takes practice and thought to make the right wishes. “All manner of consequences and oddities arise, both intended or unintended, as various characters come into possession of the rock: an enormous fortress, giant crocodiles that walk upright, a 50-foot tall deadbeat ex-boyfriend (“I wish you would just grow up!”), and a super-smart baby who communicates telepathically.
