Jesse Zeigler

While vacationing on Captiva Island, Florida with his parents, a teen, gloomy about his future, finds love and friendship when he meats a cute girl and 3 kooky pensioners with passion for life and crazy schemes.

Eleven-year-old North has had it with his parents. They are always busy with their careers and don't give North the attention he needs, so he files a lawsuit against them. The judge rules that North should either find new parents or return to his own parents within two months. Thus North starts off on a journey around the world to find parents that really care about him.

Lucy married at the turn of the last century, when she was fifteen and her husband was fifty. If Colonel William Marsden was a veteran of the "War for Southern Independence", Lucy became a "veteran of the veteran" with a unique perspective on Southern history and Southern manhood. Her story encompasses everything from the tragic death of a Confederate boy soldier to the feisty narrator's daily battles in the Home--complete with visits from a mohawk-coiffed candy-striper.

Based on the Depression-era bildungsroman memoir of writer A. E. Hotchner, the film follows the story of a boy struggling to survive on his own in a hotel in St. Louis after his mother is committed to a sanatorium with tuberculosis. His father, a German immigrant and traveling salesman working for the Hamilton Watch Company, is off on long trips from which the boy cannot be certain he will return.

Em Key West, uma pequena cidade do estado da Flórida, em plena Crise dos Mísseis de 1962, quando a população americana entrou em pânico com a possibilidade de um bombardeio nuclear vindo de Cuba, o produtor Lawrence Woosley tenta tirar proveito da situação, convencendo um grande exibidor de filmes a lançar em grande circuito sua mais recente criação sobre um homem que sofreu uma incrível mutação genética se transformando em uma gigantesca formiga.