Fed up with her small-town Bay City existence, Adele August leaves her family and second husband and heads for Beverley Hills with her daughter. The teenager resents the move and her mother s always flamboyant behaviour and in turns plans to get away to university on the east coast. Mum s plans are different - she wants a movie star for a daughter.

In an effort to better understand the concept desire, the omnipotent Beyonder spirits many of Earth's greatest heroes and villains to do battle on the Battleworld, a planet created from fragments of many different worlds throughout the galaxy, with the winners receiving their hearts desire...

Two Jedi Knights uncover a wider conflict when they are sent as emissaries to the blockaded planet Naboo.

Storyline: Another planet, another time. 1000 years ago the mysterious Dark Crystal was damaged by one of the Urskeks and an age of chaos has began! The evil race of grotesque birdlike lizards the Skeksis, gnomish dragons who rule their fantastic planet with an iron claw. Meanwhile the orphan Jen, raised in solitude by a race of the peace-loving wizards called the Mystics, embarks on a quest to find the missing shard of the Dark Crystal which gives the Skesis their power and restore the balance of the universe.