Short stories tagged with Movies
Listing 18 stories.
A young man reunites with his father, and they share a meal and a movie. Years later, he reflects on the memory as he struggles to reconcile his complex emotions about fatherhood.
Fondly recalling memories at the motion picture theater, an old man blurs the lines between past and present.
A rational New York accountant gets into a dramatic dispute with his mother over the veracity of a tabloid conspiracy theory.
A depressed barista meets a famous actor at a party. They go back to her place, where he asks personal questions she's not willing to answer.
A man discovers a video store from a parallel universe, containing movies that were never made in his timeline. But as he grows closer to the rental shop’s clerk, he realizes that the window of time in which he has access to the store is getting shorter and shorter every night.
When a sick father tells his son a new story of how he came into the United States from Mexico, different from the one the whole family was familiar with, an argument ensues between mother and father about the true history of their family.
In mid-century, small-town Maverley, a veteran police officer meets a sheltered teenage girl who become rebellious. They remain acquaintances throughout the years, and he follows gossip about her troubled family life.
A man goes to the movies with his father-in-law and uses an assisted hearing device to listen in on the old man's thoughts, discovering that his father-in-law may be a murderer.
An African woman who works for a wealthy movie director must survive his questionable whims when a deadly pandemic forces them to quarantine in his mansion.
Two plumbers in Cleveland finally catch their big break when an investor decides to fund their movie.