Road to Kabul
Recent college graduate Amy (Emma Roberts) believes she's destined to be a great poet. Amy also experiments with ways of committing suicide, including sticking her head inside an oven, or putting a pl…
Road to Kabul
Recent college graduate Amy (Emma Roberts) believes she's destined to be a great poet. Amy also experiments with ways of committing suicide, including sticking her head inside an oven, or putting a plastic bag over her head, trying to find out the easiest way. Even at college, fellow students used to make fun of Amy's work. Amy hooks up with Josh (Chris Riggi) who is one of the students who looks down upon Amy's work and does not consider her to be serious. Turns out Josh had lured Amy to his room to make a sex tape with her without her permission. Candace (Shannon Woodward) is Amy's only friend in college. Amy is pressed by her parents to earn a living as they can no longer support her poetry career with $90,000 in student loans & endless money spent on submissions to poetry contests. Amy believes that poetry is just pouring out of her and that she has many ideas in her head that could translate into a full volume in less than a week. But her father is not convinced and says that he cannot continue to subsidize her poetry career. As a poetry major from college Amy has no practical world skills and hence fails to land a job in any of corporations. Her best offers include house cleaning gigs that pay $4.25 per hour, twice a week. Amy finds a "help wanted" sign and enters the shop only to find that it is an adult entertainment store. Amy runs away at first, but after a few more rejections, she has no other options left. The store is owned by an old couple Stan (John Cullum) and Mary Anne (Cloris Leachman). They hire Amy despite her lack of retail experience and no knowledge of their inventory. Amy takes a job at a small sex shop, Adult World, where she works with the manager, Alex (Evan Peters). Alex trains Amy on the filing system for videos at the store which works on sexual preference, age, race, fetish and size. Alex teaches Amy the tricks of the trade and she soon finds that even cops come to the shop. Alex explains that the cop's wife was in a skydiving accident. She fell 10,000 feet and her chute did not open. She has been in a coma for 2 years and the cop rents porn to stay faithful to her. Alex explains that their customers like the vibe of browsing the shelves and plus the store has a lot of vintage material which is not available online. When her car is stolen, her parents discover that she had canceled the car's theft insurance to afford submission fees for poetry journals and kick her out. She briefly moves in with a coworker, trans-woman Rubia (Armando Riesco), before finding her own apartment. Amy was shocked to see Rubia at first, but then she adjusted quickly. Rubia taught Amy to use the public transportation system. Rubia has a prescription for medical marijuana as he suffers from TMJ / Temporomandibular Joint disorder. Rubia shares his marijuana with Amy, which opens her mind all sorts of new possibilities and creativity with her poetry work. Amy admits to Rubia that she is a virgin. Amy meets Candace who has become an activist and has been roaming the world with her new boyfriend Pablo, whom she met in Ecuador. Amy gets depressed as all her review submissions come back rejected. Amy believes that her window to be recognized as a young poetry genius is fast closing on her. Alex reminds her that many poets were not even acknowledged until after their death. Amy realizes that her paycheck from the store, with the tax and social security deductions is not enough to let her make rent payments on her own. Amy finds that one of her favorite poets, Rat Billings (John Cusack), is going to visit a local bookstore for a signing event. Amy is a huge fan of Billings. In their first meeting Amy comes across as slightly deranged and Billings wanted nothing to do with her, as he drives away. Amy spots Billings in the market a few days later and follows him on a bike that Rubia helps her steal. Amy meets Billings on the front porch of his home. Billings gets rid of Amy, but she relentless and returns a few days later with a fruit basket as a gift. Amy talks her way into being his protege by offering to clean his house. After some cajoling, Billings reads her poetry and offers to feature her work in an anthology he is working on. One night, she gets drunk and makes a clumsy attempt to seduce him, but he rebuffs her advances. Alex fires Amy after she fails to catch a shoplifter; angered, she says she is too good to work there. She soon discovers that she misses Alex, however, and realizes that she has feelings for him. She apologizes to him and asks for her job back. Alex rehires her, and they begin hanging out. At Amy's birthday party, Billings gives her a copy of the poetry anthology he featured her work in - "S**t Poems: An Anthology of Bad Verse". Furious and humiliated, she confronts him and calls him a has-been. She goes home and tries to commit suicide by asphyxiating herself with a plastic bag but changes her mind at the last second. The next day, she makes peace with Billings: he tells her that she needs to do more living before she can fulfill her potential as a writer, while she tells him not to take himself so seriously. Later, she sleeps with Alex, and they become a couple. She finds out she has been published in an erotica magazine that she submitted prose to as a joke. She and Alex go to a party together to celebrate, and he encourages her to keep writing. The film ends with Amy reading "S**t Poems" with a smile on her face. Amy becomes a well-known poet. Rat is reading a poetry magazine with her picture on the cover and then she arranges her first poetry book on a shelf in a bookstore to be more prominently shown.
Road to Kabul
Action,Comedy
Film Details
Recent college graduate Amy (Emma Roberts) believes she's destined to be a great poet. Amy also experiments with ways of committing suicide, including sticking her head inside an oven, or putting a plastic bag over her head, trying to find out the easiest way. Even at college, fellow students used to make fun of Amy's work.
Amy hooks up with Josh (Chris Riggi) who is one of the students who looks down upon Amy's work and does not consider her to be serious. Turns out Josh had lured Amy to his room to make a sex tape with her without her permission. Candace (Shannon Woodward) is Amy's only friend in college.
Amy is pressed by her parents to earn a living as they can no longer support her poetry career with $90,000 in student loans & endless money spent on submissions to poetry contests. Amy believes that poetry is just pouring out of her and that she has many ideas in her head that could translate into a full volume in less than a week. But her father is not convinced and says that he cannot continue to subsidize her poetry career.
As a poetry major from college Amy has no practical world skills and hence fails to land a job in any of corporations. Her best offers include house cleaning gigs that pay $4.25 per hour, twice a week. Amy finds a "help wanted" sign and enters the shop only to find that it is an adult entertainment store.
Amy runs away at first, but after a few more rejections, she has no other options left. The store is owned by an old couple Stan (John Cullum) and Mary Anne (Cloris Leachman). They hire Amy despite her lack of retail experience and no knowledge of their inventory.
Amy takes a job at a small sex shop, Adult World, where she works with the manager, Alex (Evan Peters). Alex trains Amy on the filing system for videos at the store which works on sexual preference, age, race, fetish and size. Alex teaches Amy the tricks of the trade and she soon finds that even cops come to the shop.
Alex explains that the cop's wife was in a skydiving accident. She fell 10,000 feet and her chute did not open. She has been in a coma for 2 years and the cop rents porn to stay faithful to her.
Alex explains that their customers like the vibe of browsing the shelves and plus the store has a lot of vintage material which is not available online. When her car is stolen, her parents discover that she had canceled the car's theft insurance to afford submission fees for poetry journals and kick her out. She briefly moves in with a coworker, trans-woman Rubia (Armando Riesco), before finding her own apartment.
Amy was shocked to see Rubia at first, but then she adjusted quickly. Rubia taught Amy to use the public transportation system. Rubia has a prescription for medical marijuana as he suffers from TMJ / Temporomandibular Joint disorder.
Rubia shares his marijuana with Amy, which opens her mind all sorts of new possibilities and creativity with her poetry work. Amy admits to Rubia that she is a virgin. Amy meets Candace who has become an activist and has been roaming the world with her new boyfriend Pablo, whom she met in Ecuador.
Amy gets depressed as all her review submissions come back rejected. Amy believes that her window to be recognized as a young poetry genius is fast closing on her. Alex reminds her that many poets were not even acknowledged until after their death.
Amy realizes that her paycheck from the store, with the tax and social security deductions is not enough to let her make rent payments on her own. Amy finds that one of her favorite poets, Rat Billings (John Cusack), is going to visit a local bookstore for a signing event. Amy is a huge fan of Billings.
In their first meeting Amy comes across as slightly deranged and Billings wanted nothing to do with her, as he drives away. Amy spots Billings in the market a few days later and follows him on a bike that Rubia helps her steal. Amy meets Billings on the front porch of his home.
Billings gets rid of Amy, but she relentless and returns a few days later with a fruit basket as a gift. Amy talks her way into being his protege by offering to clean his house. After some cajoling, Billings reads her poetry and offers to feature her work in an anthology he is working on.
One night, she gets drunk and makes a clumsy attempt to seduce him, but he rebuffs her advances. Alex fires Amy after she fails to catch a shoplifter; angered, she says she is too good to work there. She soon discovers that she misses Alex, however, and realizes that she has feelings for him.
She apologizes to him and asks for her job back. Alex rehires her, and they begin hanging out. At Amy's birthday party, Billings gives her a copy of the poetry anthology he featured her work in - "S**t Poems: An Anthology of Bad Verse".
Furious and humiliated, she confronts him and calls him a has-been. She goes home and tries to commit suicide by asphyxiating herself with a plastic bag but changes her mind at the last second. The next day, she makes peace with Billings: he tells her that she needs to do more living before she can fulfill her potential as a writer, while she tells him not to take himself so seriously.
Later, she sleeps with Alex, and they become a couple. She finds out she has been published in an erotica magazine that she submitted prose to as a joke. She and Alex go to a party together to celebrate, and he encourages her to keep writing.
The film ends with Amy reading "S**t Poems" with a smile on her face. Amy becomes a well-known poet. Rat is reading a poetry magazine with her picture on the cover and then she arranges her first poetry book on a shelf in a bookstore to be more prominently shown..