Tag: misfit

  • Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael

    Movie star Roxy Carmichael is abandoning the bright lights of Hollywood, Calif. and returning to her small Ohio hometown — at least long enough to dedicate a city building. And now the whole town of Clyde is bracing for Carmichael’s return, most of all her now-married old flame Denton Webb and troubled teen Dinky Bossetti. An orphan with few friends, Dinky is convinced that Carmichael is her birth mother, and that the actress will reclaim her when she returns.

  • Welcome to the Dollhouse

    An unattractive 7th grader struggles to cope with suburban life as the middle child with inattentive parents and bullies at school.

  • Down Periscope

    Maverick Navy Lieutenant Commander Tom Dodge will never be a textbook officer, but he’s a brilliant seaman who’s always wanted to command a nuclear submarine — he’s been given one last chance to clean up his record. Unfortunately, Admiral Graham, his nemesis, would rather sink the fleet than give Dodge his own boat. So, Graham stacks the deck against him and assigns Dodge to the Stingray, a diesel-powered WW2 submarine that can barely keep afloat. To make matters worse, Dodge’s crew is a collection of maladjusted, mistake-prone misfits. Then, he’s tagged the “enemy” in a crucial war game, and ordered to take on the U.S. Navy’s best.

  • The Replacements

    Maverick old-guard coach Jimmy McGinty is hired in the wake of a players’ strike to help the Washington Sentinels advance to the playoffs. But that impossible dream hinges on whether his replacements can hunker down and do the job. So, McGinty dusts off his secret dossier of ex-players who never got a chance (or screwed up the one they were given) and knits together a bad-dream team of guys who just may give the Sentinels their title shot.

  • Trading Favors

    A seductive woman with a violent lover steals a car and entices a teenage boy to join her on a crime spree.

  • P.U.N.K.S

    Drew Utley, Miles Kitchen, Lanny Nygren and Jonny P. comprise a club called ‘P.U.N.K.S.’. Their mission is to protect and serve peace.

  • My First Mister

    Leelee Sobieski is brash, abrasive and vulnerable as a teenage child of divorce who hides her pain behind a mask of hard-edged gothic rebellion. Albert Brooks plays a man who is her total opposite, a precise and well-ordered menswear store owner of forty-nine who manages limited expectations and protects lonely secrets with pleasant ritual and quiet, ironic reserve. These two total opposites collide in conflict then come together in a surprising alliance, changing each other’s lives forever.

  • Try Seventeen

    Teenager Jones has opted not to go to college and is instead renting a room in a boarding house to work on his writing skills. Soon, Jones finds himself dividing his time between two women: a young actress named Lisa and a photographer named Jane. After Jane’s ex-boyfriend arrives to help her recover from a car accident, Jones begins to understand just how much he cares for her.

  • Lone Star State of Mind

    Earl and Baby, two young lovers with a plan to escape their small Texas town. But when Baby’s dim-witted cousin Junior gets tangled up in a whole heap of trouble, Earl has just 48 hours to save the day, rescue Junior and keep his promise to get his Baby to Los Angeles in time for sweeps.

  • The Mudge Boy

    Chronicling the troubled existence of Duncan Mudge, a 14-year-old misfit who—while vying for the attention of his vacant father—struggles to fill the void brought on by his mother’s sudden death.