Thursday, 5:12 PM. Roy Haskell: forty-four, divorced, broke, assistant manager at Carpet Kingdom, every-other-weekend dad. A box arrives holding a full-senses virtual-reality console that promises every game he loved as a kid and costs more than his car, so he means to send it back on day twenty-nine. He plugs in his father's old joystick for just one game, because at seven he picks up his daughter Jess. A warm, wry comedy of pixels, nostalgia and promises worth keeping.

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Thursday, 5:12 PM. Roy Haskell: forty-four, divorced, broke, assistant manager at Carpet Kingdom, every-other-weekend dad. A box arrives holding a full-senses virtual-reality console that promises every game he loved as a kid and costs more than his car, so he means to send it back on day twenty-nine. He plugs in his father's old joystick for just one game, because at seven he picks up his daughter Jess. A warm, wry comedy of pixels, nostalgia and promises worth keeping.