Gimme the Loot

A teenager living with her sister and parents in Manhattan during the 1990s discovers that her father is having an affair.

In the present, artist Tom Warshaw recalls his traumatic coming of age. As a 13-year-old growing up in New York City in 1973, Tom hangs out with Pappass, a mentally disabled man. With Tom's mother battling depression after the death of her husband, the young boy is left to his own devices. When Tom develops a crush on schoolmate Melissa, Pappass feels abandoned and begins behaving erratically.

Middle-aged postman and football fan Eric Bishop struggles with his increasingly chaotic existence, but receives some life coaching from the famously philosophical Éric Cantona.

An ongoing feud between punk rockers and a more affluent clique in a small Texas town leads to a hate crime.

An estranged family gathers together in New York for an event celebrating the artistic work of their father.

Writer Harry Block draws inspiration from people he knows, and from events that happened to him, sometimes causing these people to become alienated from him as a result.