In 1927, a fourteen-year-old boy hops a boxcar in a dusty Texas field headed for Hollywood and life in the "flickers." His aim is to get as far away as he can from the farm he thinks holds nothing for him. In 1947, a ten-year-old girl dreams of a real home, with a real family, far away from the crowded Los Angeles streets where her handsome father chases an impossible dream -- and where her mother holds a dark secret. In 1980, a young man comes home from the navy, not to the mother he ran away from, but to his colorful, ...
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In 1927, a fourteen-year-old boy hops a boxcar in a dusty Texas field headed for Hollywood and life in the "flickers." His aim is to get as far away as he can from the farm he thinks holds nothing for him. In 1947, a ten-year-old girl dreams of a real home, with a real family, far away from the crowded Los Angeles streets where her handsome father chases an impossible dream -- and where her mother holds a dark secret. In 1980, a young man comes home from the navy, not to the mother he ran away from, but to his colorful, elderly grandparents in Los Angeles -- the ones who might or might not have been a movie actor and a band singer.
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