"There is no such thing as the impossible dream."

Living in Atlanta in 1967, Brad Jones is an average teenager with a vivid imagination and a unique way of seeing the world through his flights of fancy and dreams of heroic deeds. During the summer before his senior year, he and three friends decide to prove that superheroes don't need special powers, fancy weapons, futuristic vehicles, or skin tight costumes.

All they really need is great press.

Calling themselves the Bowmen, they carefully craft a plan to make one late-night appearance to halt a minor crime and phone it in to the...