6.9

Were the World Mine

2008, USA

• Actors: Tanner Cohen, Wendy Robie, Judy McLane, Zelda Williams, Jill Larson, Ricky Goldman, Nathaniel David Becker, Christian Stolte, David Darlow, Parker Croft, Brad Bukauskas, Reid Dawson, Alexander Aguilar, Yoni Solomon, Colleen Skemp, Waymon Arnette, Zach Gray, Julia Black, Peggy Roeder, Ora Jones, Annabel Armour, Ken Gasch, Adam Gauzza, Matthew McMunn, Walter Thon, Michael Hargrove, Martie Sanders, Dev Kennedy, Charin Alvarez, J.R. Rose
• Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
• Director(s): Tom Gustafson
• Available languages:
  • English English.

If you had a love-potion, who would you make fall madly in love with you? Timothy, prone to escaping his dismal high school reality through dazzling musical daydreams, gets to answer that question in a very real way. After his eccentric teacher casts him as Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream, he stumbles upon a recipe hidden within the script to create the play's magical, purple love-pansy. Armed with the pansy, Timothy's fading spirit soars as he puckishly imposes a new reality by turning much of his narrow-minded town gay, beginning with the rugby-jock of his dreams. Ensnaring family, friends and enemies in this chaos, Timothy forces them to walk a mile in his musical shoes. The course of true love never did run smooth; it's a bumpy ride.

  6.8

Grace Is Gone

2007, USA

• Actors: John Cusack, Emily Churchill, Rebecca Spence, Jennifer Tyler, Susan Messing, Shélan O'Keefe, Gracie Bednarczyk, Doug Dearth, Doug James, Alessandro Nivola, Zach Gray, Marisa Tomei, Penny Slusher, Dana Lynne Gilhooley, Mary Kay Place, Katie Honaker, Ross Klavan, Robb Pruitt, Bill Timoney, Jennifer Bills, Brian Patrick Farrell, Andrea Frisby, Shane Hartline, Suzanne Lang, Gary Sedlock, Jocelyn Wesler
• Genre: Drama
• Director(s): James C. Strouse
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Stan Philipps's wife Grace is a sergeant with the U.S. Army. While she's posted to Iraq, the earnest Stan is home in Minnesota with their daughters, Heidi, 12, and Dawn, 8. He manages a home supply store. After morning visitors bring Stan news, he takes the girls for a car ride that turns into a spontaneous trip to Dawn's favorite place, a Florida amusement park. On the way, they stop at Stan's mother's house, where his brother is staying. Heidi is an insomniac, who tries to fathom her father's uncharacteristic behavior. Dawn is cheerfully unreflective. They have fun at the park. Stan summons his courage.