În Los Angeles-ul de după 11 septembrie, viețile unor oameni din diverse domenii sunt aduse laolaltă pe o durată de 36 de ore, iar tensiunile cresc.
When a mafia accountant is taken hostage on his beat, a police officer – wracked by guilt from a prior stint as a negotiator – must negotiate the standoff, even as his own family is held captive by the mob.
When reporter Rachel Armstrong writes a story that reveals the identity of a covert CIA operative, the government demands that Rachel reveal her source. She defies the special prosecutor and is thrown in jail. Meanwhile, her attorney, Albert Burnside argues her case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Shanghai 1925: Walter Fane știa că soția sa Kitty nu s-a căsătorit cu el din dragoste. Însă ca doctor și om de știință rezervat și treaz nu poate accepta faptul că începe o aventură cu viceconsulul britanic imediat după sosirea ei în China. O obligă pe Kitty să-l însoțească într-un sat îndepărtat, unde a izbucnit o epidemie de holeră. O călătorie sinucigașă care s-ar putea sfârși cu moartea pentru mai mult decât pentru Kitty...
In what would cause a fantastic media frenzy, Clifford Irving sells his bogus biography of Howard Hughes to a premiere publishing house in the early 1970s.
Jabez Stone este un scriitor disperat și total nemulțumit de viața banală și lipsită de senzații pe care o are. Înnebunit de faptul că unul din colegii lui se îmbogățește peste noapte, Jabez acceptă propunerea unei femei frumoase de a-și vinde sufletul. Dupa ce semnează pactul cu diavolul, Jabez cunoaște rapid succesul – bani, femei, notorietate, dar pierde respectul prietenilor apropiați. Jabez se decide să rupă pactul și îi cere ajutorul editorului Daniel Webster.
During a weekend, two shady businessmen flee to the Cayman Islands to avoid federal prosecution. But their escape ignites a chain reaction that leads a British native to commit a crime that changes the nation.
A headstrong young woman returns to New Orleans after the death of her estranged mother.
A psychic's ominous reading sends a man into a tailspin.
Up-and-coming sports reporter rescues a homeless man ("Champ") only to discover that he is, in fact, a boxing legend believed to have passed away. What begins as an opportunity to resurrect Champ's story and escape the shadow of his father's success becomes a personal journey as the ambitious reporter reexamines his own life and his relationship with his family.
Two childhood friends from South Boston turn to crime as a way to get by, ultimately causing a strain in their personal lives and their friendship.
After the theft of copies of SAT exams from a principal's office, teenage reporter Bobby Funke sets out to unmask the thief. Bobby prints an article fingering Class President Paul Moore as the thief, shredding the youth's reputation. But as Bobby gets to know Paul's girlfriend, Francesca, he comes to realize he was wrong about Paul, so he sets out to unmask the true culprit.
A woman's life is thrown into chaos after a freak car accident sends her husband and brother-in-law into comas. Thrills arrive after the brother-in-law wakes up, thinking he's his brother.
Actress Reese Holden has been offered a small fortune by a book editor if she can secure for publication the love letters that her father, a reclusive novelist, wrote to her mother, who has since passed away. Returning to Michigan, Reese finds that an ex-grad student and a would-be musician have moved in with her father, who cares more about his new friends than he does about his own health and well-being.
Sam and Gray are such a well-matched pair that it is difficult to believe they are brother and sister rather than husband and wife. They both share a love of 1940s movies and dancing, and when they meet Charlie, they have something else in common: They both fall in love with her. Sam must deal with unexpected feelings of jealousy, while Gray struggles to come to terms with her sexual orientation.
Gambling addiction bring the stories of three otherwise unconnected people together as it destroys each of their lives.
The American comedian/actor delivers a story about the alternative Hip Hop scene. A small town Ohio mans moves to Brooklyn, New York, to throw an unprecedented block party.
Set in the Ozark Mountains during the Great Depression, Billy Coleman works hard and saves his earnings for 2 years to achieve his dream of buying two coonhound pups. He develops a new trust in God as he faces overwhelming challenges in adventure and tragedy roaming the river bottoms of Cherokee country with "Old Dan" and "Little Ann."
In 1986, a young breakdancer falls into a coma after hitting his head in a talent show. 20 years later, he awakens and attempts to revive his dance team's short-lived career in order to support his parents' failing yogurt shop.
During the 1980s civil war in El Salvador, a rebel group of leftist guerrillas fight to expose its government's death squads via an underground radio network and hope to end their government's reign of terror with the help of an American journalist.