Rex Strype

The tale of an individualist proletarian in a time marked by the rise of mass political movements. In early 20th-century Italy, illiterate sailor Martin Eden seeks fame as a writer while torn between the love of a bourgeois girl and allegiance to his social class.

Young actor Miles Hottonian attempts to become the hard-living leader of the Beat Generation, Jack Kerouac. After finding an online casting call for a Miloš Forman project about the great writer, Miles enlists the help of the last NYC checker cabbie Charlie Grebbini to drive him from New York to Los Angeles to experience life on the road in time for the audition, an adventure that will ultimately change their lives forever.

For acclaimed novelist Brian Johnson, the stage of his final book reading becomes an unexpected tribunal. The ""visitors,"" who confront him are hauntingly familiar. Their question to Johnson: ""Have you truly been facing us all along?"" unlocks a flood of buried memories and regret as Johnson finally recognizes them as characters from his own novels. This unsettling encounter awakens a part of himself he had nearly forgotten, compelling him to seek answers to the questions that define an author's soul: What is creation? To whom does a story belong? And what does it truly mean to write?

When washed-up actor David Eastman participates in a comic convention in order to earn money for his granddaughter, he encounters his former co-star and rival Rick Majors for the first time in 40 years.

Gabby, a novice documentarian, has come from New York to visit her father, Alexander; a man who left his family to become a very important figure in a very important Russian Oil Company. Acting on his promise to return, Gabby decides to document her father in Moscow during his final months of stay. However, once she realizes that Alexander's temporary position in Russia may have become a permanent decision, Gabby's rosy documentary is forced into a dramatically comical Moscow detour.