Pippa en Thomas nemen hun intrek in hun droomappartement. Ze merken dat hun ramen rechtstreeks in het appartement aan de overkant kijken, wat hen uitnodigt om getuige te zijn van de vluchtige relatie van het aantrekkelijke stel aan de overkant van de straat. Maar wanneer ze anoniem proberen te bemiddelen in hun leven, zetten ze onbewust een reeks gebeurtenissen in gang die dodelijke gevolgen hebben.
Joanna Crane is een ontwerpster van sportkleding. Om de stress kwijt te raken klust ze bij als prostituee, met de naam China Blue. In deze rol wordt ze lastig gevallen door een fanatieke priester, die haar wil redden uit het zondige leven. Zelf is hij een fervente peepshow bezoeker.
Nadat Joe (Kwanten) gedumpt wordt door zijn vriendin Beth, besluit hij om met zijn vriend Eric (Zahn) en zijn LARP- (Live Action Role Players) vrienden de bossen in te trekken. Liever dat dan te piekeren over zijn nieuwe status als "single". Hier ontmoet hij de knappe LARPer Gwen (Glau). Samen met enkele andere spelers van het rollenspel roepen zij per ongeluk een demoon op en moeten de gevolgen daarvan zien te beperken...
When Leela is insulted by a group of space-rednecks (like regular rednecks, but in space) she enters the Planet Express ship in a demolition derby. She emerges victorious, but when she brings the damaged ship home and the Professor sees the fuel gauge, he's enraged by the hit he's going to take at the Dark Matter pump. Now the crew have to find a way to break Mom's stranglehold on starship fuel, even if they have to wade through a Lord of the Rings-inspired fantasy-land to do it!
Bound together by a desire to play "Mazes and Monsters," Robbie and his four college classmates decide to move the board game into the local cavern. Robbie loses his mind, and the line between reality and fantasy fuse into a harrowing nightmare.
Één van de populairste satirische kranten van Amerika maakt de overgang van de gedrukte pagina's naar het zilveren scherm in deze politieke komedie die onderzoekt wanneer journalistieke integriteit in opspraak gebracht wordt door collectieve gevoeligheid. 'Onion News'-nieuwslezer Nom Archer is een zeer principiële journalist, zodat hij, wanneer hij gevraagd wordt om zich te buigen naar de wil van de bazen van de omroep, besluit om terug te slaan met een woede zoals ze nog nooit gezien hadden in de wereld van de nieuwsgaring.
While her mother is away from home, 12-year-old Adar's role-playing games with her stepfather move into dangerous territory. Seeking an escape, Adar finds Alan, an ethereal boy that accompanies her on a dark journey between reality and fantasy.
A MODERN MEDIEVAL SAGA, The Wild Hunt tells the story of Erik Magnusson, a young man who decides to follow his estranged girlfriend Evelyn into a medieval re-enactment game when he discovers that she has been seduced by one of the players. As the down-to-earth Erik treks deeper into the game in search of his love, he inadvertently disrupts the delicate balance of the make believe fantasy-land. Passions are unleashed. Rules are broken. Reality and fantasy collide. The good-hearted game turns into a tragedy of mythic proportion... Capturing the culture of costume play and the potentially dangerous intersection of real and made-up worlds, The Wild Hunt is a timely and potent comment on the consuming nature of adopting another identity, even within a game, and the modern yearning for ritual.
Voss entices local gamers to create a utopia to impress a potential employer, but paradise is disrupted when his nemesis lays claim to the city and Voss's true love.
Diego heeft de leiding in een Mexicaans restaurant in Oost-Los Angeles. Het restaurant is eigendom van zijn grootmoeder. Diego heeft in het geheim een relatie met Pablo, een makelaar in onroerend goed. Diego wil hun relatie bekend maken, maar dat stuit op grote problemen bij Pablo, die de relatie abrupt beëindigt. Dit doet Diego besluiten het plan op te vatten om Los Angeles te verlaten om zijn droom waar te maken: het openen van een eigen top-restaurant. Ondertussen heeft Diego nieuwe buren gekregen: Wes en Jonathon. Wes voelt zich zeer aangetrokken tot Diego. Tot afschuw van Diego is Pablo een relatie begonnen met Bianca, de tante van Diego.
Humans & Households follows a group of fantasy heroes on their day off as they sit down to enjoy a rousing role-playing game set in a mundane world of traffic lights, errant puppies, indoor plumbing, and other diabolical evils.
Two cultists do door-to-door missionary work and in one house accidentally kill a person. That same night, a group of live action role-players enter the house. The cultists must hide the body, play along and survive the night.
On their way to the supermarket, Penny and James meet again for the first time.
Every year during summer one of the biggest battles of mankind takes place amidst the hillsides of middle earth. Knights, elves and magicians are fighting orcs and the dark powers. What looks like a scene from Lord of the Rings actually takes place in a field in Germany, where thousands of role players meet to plunge into a fantasy world of their own. More than 250.000 people in Germany regularly make this transition. The documentary accompanies five role players in their daily lives and their parallel ones. Where does their yearning for a shared world of fantasy come from? What does this reveal about our hectic, technological life? Sunday warriors is a film about the passion for playing and the ambition to exceed your limits.
Chronicles the history of the game "Super Columbine Massacre RPG!." The film traces back the 16-bit role-playing game to its inception, through the 2006 shooting at Dawson College in which the game was singled out by the media as a "murder simulator" that "trained" the shooter, and finally the game's removal from the list of finalists at the Slamdance 2007 Guerrilla Gamemaker Competition - prompting half the entries and a sponsor to pull out of the festival in protest. Written by tolka
Summer camp gets really strange for 15-year-old Lizzie when she is forced to play a Holocaust role-play game.
In this powerful story, a teenage girl escapes reality through live action role-playing when her mother is suffering an illness, which will soon reach a breaking point. It was written by siblings Lisi Purr and Anton Jøsef. They were inspired by their mother’s stories from when she was a support worker.
College freshmen Debbie and Marcie are excited to start their new lives at a Pacific Northwest university but after being invited to a Zeta Omega Epsilon party the two suddenly find themselves in the strange and occult world of Role Playing Games. The duo are soon hooked on the highly addictive experience that is RPGing and the game quickly becomes a habit that consumes their lives. After Debbie’s intense pagan training through the RPGs lead her to accept an invitation to join a witches’ coven, her grades begin to plummet and she is in danger of flunking out of college. She calls on darker and deeper magical forces to use a “mind bondage” spell on her professor. Meanwhile, Marcie foolishly reads from the Necronomicon and summons Cthulhu.
A documentary about three people with an extraordinary hobby: live Game (LARP). A weekend to be someone else, experience adventure, fight battles, be a child again; recovery from reality and yourself.