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Plot summary
Eleven-year-old Toby Thompson lives in Black Falls Community, a company town where nearly every adult works for Black Inc. Cole Black and his sister Helvetica bully Toby, and one day Cole's gang throws rocks at him. One of the rocks grants wishes. Toby asks it for friends as interesting and unique as he is, and tiny aliens arrive in a UFO. Stacey, his older sister, also gets the rock and asks it to make her former boyfriend John older. Other kids and grown-ups set out to take the rock.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Shorts (2009)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The film's soundtrack includes two songs performed by people involved in the movie: "Spy Ballet" by director Robert Rodriguez and "Summer Never Ends" by star Jimmy Bennett.
- A video game adaptation was planned for the Wii and Nintendo DS, but while the DS version came out, the Wii version was scrapped.
