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- An unconventional television comedy about a group of extras navigating their way through the entertainment industry.
- Abel Vaslov, a wanna-be screenwriter, drug-addict, low-level gangster and broker of bobble-heads is stuck in a life of despair and misery in Los Angeles that some might consider glamorous. He is sick and tired of it. He hates his life and the things that he does to "get by". After a long night of partying at his house with "bottom-feeders" and his best friend Ephrem Lechinsky, a "first-class prick" and Dirk Schimmler, a C-rate actor and hanger on to Corey Feldman, Abel also has to deal with a crew Russian mobsters who basically run his life. They come in to deliver his coke which he is then to sell to the party-goers and others throughout the week. It is these guys who supply his coke, which he sells to maintain his somewhat high level of living while trying to sell his screenplays, but ending up selling "lousy" pulp articles. He is indebted to these gangsters because he has been buying from them for years. He is basically their slave and he knows it and they definitely know it.
- You think your life sucks? For Jack Kopecky, life is a series of disappointments at best. With his reputation torn to shreds thanks to a fraudulent rape charge, a narcissistic ex-wife, and a back-stabbing psychiatrist, downing a cocktail of Percocet and vodka never felt so tempting.
- ShortA solitary and troubled software engineer discovers romance in an AI girlfriend.
- A uniquely funny movie about the personally unusual lives of background extras as they trudge through an often ironically painful life as the third-class citizens of the entertainment world. Hollywood's unwanted but needed third world step children, The E-Lister's.
- "The Grand Prince of Moscow" is a story of redemption, recovery, and reclamation of seemingly lost life. Abel is a man with a broken soul in the midst of an existential crisis. He finds healing and help in a most unusual way. Through many twists and turns, Abel is in on the road to becoming a better man.
- "The Meaningful Life of Art and Henry" is a black comedy about Art, a reclusive alcoholic widower who befriends his unusual neighbor Henry, a recently fired curator of the Puppet Museum who finds out his abusive wife is cheating on him with a mentally challenged vision board artist. Each of them are struggling with the blows of life and the meaningless day to day existence of modern suburbia. Art lost his beloved son in car accident and now recently his cat "Hannibal" was found dead and delivered frozen by Henry who explained that he "left the earthly realm". Henry, because of anger management issues, is dealing with the regret of causing the destruction of the Jim Henson collection, even more he is kicked out by his wife while her "special" lover Percival moves in. Luckily Art lets Henry move in and they decide it's time to start changing and make life worth living again.
- John Neihardt was known as the poet, or voice, of the plains. Marshall Jamison reads Neihardt's poetry, and Neihardt himself appears in a variety of archive footage describing his life and writings. People interviewed include Neihardt's two daughters, his biographer Lucile Aly, University of Missouri president James Olson, Omaha World-Herald reporter Tom Allen, and former student Betty Cook Rottman. Writer Angela Rackley worked with Neihardt.