In a field above the sea stands an office desk with chairs. This is a conference room where imaginary friends of children gather to receive new wards and tasks. The main character is the worst employee in the "imaginary office." The boss gives him one last chance before firing him: to become the best imaginary friend for a difficult child. But how can he do that if his own ward doesn't believe in him?
In a field above the sea stands an office desk with chairs. This is a conference room where imaginary friends of children gather to receive new wards and tasks. The main character is the worst employee in the "imaginary office." The boss gives him one last chance before firing him: to become the best imaginary friend for a difficult child. But how can he do that if his own ward doesn't believe in him?
Russ Millings has just been released from prison after serving 21 years for a 3rd strike conviction for possessing an ounce of marijuana. As he tries to adapt to a world he doesn’t recognize – including trying to learn how to use the internet – he finds an abandoned baby in a dumpster behind the fast food restaurant where he works as a dishwasher. Unsure of what to do, and caught between impulses of kindness and panic, Russ soon realizes this could be his chance at redemption.
A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.
A daughter seeks to restore the reputation of her disgraced father, a wronged college professor. With help of a professional student, she must overcome an ambitious sorority bitch and corrupt college dean.
Two law school friends find themselves at odds when one becomes a Justice Department lawyer and the other goes into politics.
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When strangers Jim, Eva, Emily and Mo meet William online in his new 'Chelsea Teens!' chatroom, they're completely seduced by his fast-talking, charismatic character. But beneath the surface lies a much darker truth. William is a dangerous loner, channeling all his energies into cyberspace. He's become an analyser, a calculating manipulator who finds it almost impossible to interact normally with others in the real world, instead turning his hand to manipulating people online.
Middle-aged widow Beatrice Hunsdorfer and her daughters Ruth and Matilda are struggling to survive in a society they barely understand. Beatrice dreams of opening an elegant tea room but does not have the wherewithal to achieve her lofty goal. Epileptic Ruth is a rebellious adolescent, while shy but highly intelligent and idealistic Matilda seeks solace in her pets and school projects, including one designed to show how small amounts of radium affect marigolds.
Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell.
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