Starring Christopher Plummer as Flash, a man who longs for the days when he worked as a crew member on such cinematic masterpieces as Citizen Kane. When Flash meets teenage film fanatic Cameron Kincaid (Michael Angarano) he becomes an unlikely mentor and agrees to help Cameron in a student competition where the top prize is a film school scholarship and, for Cameron, a ticket out of his difficult home life. Flash, who sees his own life drawing to a close, recruits the support of his eccentric friends at the Motion Picture Home to help Cameron make his film and chase his dreams.