Marvin, a young aspiring writer from New York, moves to California to write a novel. He ends up rooming with a chaotic, bohemian musician named Jay. Marvin finds himself inexorably drawn into the vibrant youth culture of San Francisco's Mission District as both Jay and himself watch their worlds disintegrate. They discover that each has a lot to learn from the other. Mission is a coming-of-age story casting a spotlight on a place and time, moments before artistic aspiring types yielded the Mission to the dotcom entrepreneurs.

Two cabbies search San Francisco's Chinatown for a mysterious character who has disappeared with the...

Ben Gold gets the break of his life as aspiring author, but must stay home with his kids, Luke and M...

Donya, a lonely Afghan refugee and former translator, spends her twenties drifting through a meager ...

Blue-collar Paulie prepares for fatherhood and his forthcoming wedding to Sue by hanging out with hi...

Stingo, a young writer, moves to Brooklyn in 1947 to begin work on his first novel. As he becomes fr...

When 19-year-old gay-rights activist Tommy and 24-year-old Alan first meet in 1973, they find themse...

Austin, Texas, is an Eden for the young and unambitious, from the enthusiastically eccentric to the ...

A disillusioned young writer living in New York City turns to drugs and drinking to block out the me...

The story of writer Xiao Hong comes alive through memories of her great love affair, literary influe...

During a power outage, two strangers tell scary stories. The more Fred and Fanny commit to their tal...

A writer meets five widows on a train to Puri. As the six lives begin to intertwine, the theme of th...

Writer Alex Sheldon must finish his novel within a month. If he doesn't, he won't get paid. And, if ...

A writer of BAD detective novels is in full writers' block. He pretends to be the alibi of a beautif...

Johnny is a successful banker with great respect for and dedication to the people in his life, espec...

Down-on-his-luck race car driver Jim Douglas teams up with a little VW Bug that has a mind of its ow...

In the fall of 1963, Eddie Birdlace is an 18-year-old Marine Corps volunteer who is about to ship ou...

When talented young writer Elizabeth Wurtzel earns a scholarship to Harvard, she sees it as her chan...

A writer with a writer's block is tormented by his lack of inspiration. His girlfriend shows up and ...

Set in 1951, a blacklisted Hollywood writer gets into a car accident, loses his memory and settles d...

In 1965, a young woman with dreams of becoming a writer has a son at the age of 15 and struggles to ...