The mute Eric, whose parents were killed when he was 5 years old, lives with his hard-drinking uncle, and is obsessed with birds. He also dreams of dreams of flying and he touches everyone he meets, including a new family who has moved in after their father dies.
When his parents have to go out of town, mischievous Dennis Mitchell makes the life of neighbor George Wilson miserable with his overactive energy and inadvertent troublemaking. But in fact, Dennis is just trying to be helpful, even to the thief who’s arrived in town.
Trailer-park teenager Lance Guest regularly escapes from his humdrum existence by playing the video game Starfighter and one day he finds himself recruited as a gunner for an alien defense force.
Maj. Benson Payne lives, breathes and sleeps war. But after being honorably discharged from the Marines due to a lack of wars, Payne, the natural-born killer, he has no idea what to do as a civilian…