Walter Mitty, a mild-mannered man, frequently escapes his humdrum life through vivid daydreams where he becomes the heroic figure in a series of imagined adventures, only to be jolted back to reality by various triggers.

To earn enough money for college, a high school graduate takes a grueling factory job. He expects his only takeaway from the work to be a paycheck, but a mysterious coworker teaches him about the world and his place in it.

The narrator, an adult Black man, needs to make a quick buck and decides to go into mole removal for a shady contractor. Instead of an in-and-out job, it becomes a lot more complicated when secrets and ulterior motives are revealed.

In 1980s Massachusetts, two high school friends investigate a mysterious neighbor who they believe is an infamous fugitive.

A handsome seventeen-year-old boy coincidentally meets his girlfriend at the vacation home of a rich neighbor and tries to persuade her to live life at his pace.

A man bonds with his friend's sister during the summer they spend together. He rides behind her on his bike while she runs, and carries a pistol to protect her from bears.

A man who has given everything to his friend's farm equipment business fends off onslaughts personal, emotional, and professional even as the real threat eludes him completely.

Inspired by the I-Ching prophecies, two men kidnap a young boy and travel across the United States to wait for their reward.

Two plumbers in Cleveland finally catch their big break when an investor decides to fund their movie.

A man in the prison system figures out his talent.