Fast, furious and darkly funny, Takeover is an outrageous picture of a corporate buyout from the viewpoint of a band of creative misfits whose world is turned upside-down in the process. Some takeovers are hostile. This one is ridiculous. If you've ever had to attend a motivational meeting... If you've ever heard the words "everyone's job is safe..". If you've ever been told "we're one big happy family" one day and found that the family is being sold the next... Then you will recognize the morbid humor running through this satire set in the world of movie stars and rock gods. Secret meetings,...

1979. Atlantis, New Jersey. A deadly international sex trafficking cartel has little to fear from a local teacher who arms his young charges with pens in a world full of swords. Beset by intimate betrayal, violent death, and the collapse of all he holds sacred, Mr. Bachman is on the verge of losing everything. ...There was a flow to all the things that were happening to him and around him. He didn't know where it started, and he didn't know where it would lead, but it didn't seem too dramatic to think that maybe it came from Hell, and maybe it was leading someplace really bad. This...