Former Oscar winning screenwriter KC Munk is down on his luck. When his bookie shows up looking for $10,000, KC has nothing left to give so they take the only thing he has left, his best friend and 16-year-old dog, Buddha. In order to get Buddha back, KC has to return to the place he hates, Los Angeles, and borrow money from the one guy he knows who has money, his old friend, the infamous film director Pete Smalls. He learns Pete Smalls is actually...

"The film Casablanca opens with the words, "With the coming of the Second World War, many eyes in imprisoned Europe turned hopefully, or desperately, toward the freedom of the Americas." Leslie Epstein's Hill of Beans is the story of how one nation, one industry, and in particular one man responded to that desperate hope. That man is Jack Warner. His impossible goal is to make world events--most importantly, the invasion of North Africa by British...