The infant tells them that the rock is starting to feel misused, as shown by the fact that the rock starts undoing all of their wishes. Black wishes that he was the most powerful thing in the world and turns into a giant Black Box robot. Macy) capture the monster outside, Toe and Loogie take the rock and leave.Įpisode Five As Toe and Loogie contemplate what to do with the rock, they are ambushed by the rest of the kids and fight until the rock winds up in the hands of Mr. Toe and Loogie, now friends, arrive at Nose's house in time to see Nose's booger mutate into a giant monster. Nose picks his nose against his father's wishes and accidentally flicks the booger into his father's radioactive work study. Hel takes the rock, wishes off her casts, and escapes before Toe throws the rock as far as he can, where it lands at the Noseworthy's house.Įpisode Four Toe's older sister Stacey (Kat Dennings) arrives to tutor 'Nose' Noseworthy (Jake Short), Toe's old, germaphobic friend. In the chaos, Toe retrieves the rock and wishes everyone back to normal. Black who, unaware of its power, accidentally wishes for all of the employees to go for each other's throats. Hel wishes that Cole would turn into a dung beetle and then loses the rock. Meanwhile, Toe realizes that his mother took the rock and rushes to the costume party, but runs into Hel and Cole, who take the rock and dump him in the garbage. Black thinks that they're wearing a costume. They become merged into a two-headed person, but Mr. Since they were having trouble with their relationship, she wishes that she and her husband were closer. Thompson go to a Black Box costume party. Toe's mother finds the rock in Toe's room and takes it.

Carbon Black (James Spader), owner of Black Box, to compete to create a new marketing strategy. Thomson (Leslie Mann and Jon Cryer), like all adults in the town, work for Black Box Unlimited Worldwide Industries Incorporated, which manufactures the 'Black Box' universal gadget. The aliens leave, but Toe keeps the rock.Įpisode Three Toe's parents, Mr. This results in both Toe and Hel having casts put on both arms. Toe takes the aliens to school, but their presence causes Toe and Hel to fall from the school's roof. One of the rocks they throw is the wishing rock, which Toe uses to wish for friends, which come in the form of small aliens. Toe speculates that Hel loves him, infuriating Hel and leading Cole and his gang to start throwing rocks at Toe. She convinces the boys to dispose of the rock, which Cole finds the next day to throw at Toe.Įpisode Two Toby 'Toe' Thompson (Jimmy Bennett) is bullied by Helvetica 'Hel' Black (Jolie Vanier) and her brother Cole (Devon Gearhart) on the way to school. However, the power is given to their infant sister (portrayed by Bianca Rodriguez and voiced by Elizabeth Avellan). (Some of the events will be considered as 'episodes' and will be randomized due to the narrator being unable to correctly remember the order of events.)Įpisode One A rainbow colored Wishing Rock appears at the home of Loogie (Trevor Gagnon), Laser (Leo Howard), and Lug (Rebel Rodriguez) Short, and they eventually wish that one of them was very smart. The film starts with a very busy suburban town called Black Falls Community, where every adult always works and citizens and children use the companies famous product 'The Black Box' a technological device that can turn into almost any gadget imaginable. An Xbox video game of the same name was announced on 23 June 2009 with a prospective July release date in advance of the film's release, but was canceled. Shorts: The Adventures of the Wishing Rock was released on DVD and Blu-ray on 24 November 2009 by Warner Home Video. It received a Young Artist Award nomination for Best Performance in a Feature Film. Pictures. The film grossed $29 million on a $20 million budget. Shortly after that, the movie was theatrically released in the United States on Augby Warner Bros. Shorts: The Adventures of the Wishing Rock made its world premiere screening on Augat the Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, California. Macy, Leslie Mann, James Spader, Jimmy Bennett and Kat Dennings. Shorts (also known as Shorts: The Adventures of the Wishing Rock and released internationally as The Wishing Rock) is a 2009 Emirati-American comic fantasy family film written and directed by Robert Rodriguez. The film stars Jon Cryer, William H.

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