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.

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Famous writer Alexander contracts a terminal illness. He receives a letter from his wife describing ...

A paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that the coupl...

A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curi...

William Thatcher, a knight's peasant apprentice, gets a chance at glory when the knight dies suddenl...

Grady is a 50-ish English professor who hasn't had a thing published in years—not since he wrote his...
Jerzy Kosiński, author of The Painted Bird and Being There, sees his life and literary career unrave...

Pedro is a solitary writer who decides to embark upon an imaginary disorientation in order to get to...

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 ...

Behrani, an Iranian immigrant buys a California bungalow, thinking he can fix it up, sell it again, ...

The story of an imaginative boy who pretends he is the child of a sperm-laden Sicilian tomato upon w...

A cunning and resourceful housewife vows revenge on her husband when he begins an affair with a weal...

Out drinking one night after a fight with her boyfriend, three men brutally rape Sarah Tobias in a b...

The living Volkswagen Beetle helps an old lady protect her home from a corrupt developer.

After a rough divorce, Frances, a 35-year-old professor and writer from San Francisco takes a tour o...

Michael Brennen, a San Francisco private eye gets dragged into a drug-smuggling operation while sear...

A struggling writer is forced to fake a relationship to save her career, while overlooking the love ...