Das Leben des sechsjährigen Mason Jr. wird auf den Kopf gestellt, als seine Mutter Olivia mit ihm und seiner Schwester Samantha in ihre Heimat Texas zurückkehrt, um noch einmal das College zu besuchen. Dort bekommen die Kinder immerhin auch ihren Vater Mason Sr., der seit der Scheidung kaum für sie da gewesen ist, wieder öfter zu Gesicht. Mason Jr. muss sich mit seiner neuen Lebenssituation arrangieren – und durchlebt so die zwölf Jahre, die aus einem kleinen Jungen einen Mann machen: Es stehen Campingausflüge mit dem Vater an, es wird das erste Bier getrunken, der erste Joint geraucht und auch die erste große Liebe erlebt. Doch die Männergeschichten von Olivia sorgen immer wieder für Probleme...
Beautiful, sophisticated women are all over Oscar Grubman. He is sensitive and compassionate, speaks French fluently, is passionate about Voltaire, and thinks the feature that tells the most about a woman is her hands. On the train home from Chauncey Academy for the Thanksgiving weekend, Oscar confides in his best friend that he has plans for this vacation--he will win the heart of his true love. But there is one major problem--Oscar's true love is his stepmother Eve.
In a series of three vignettes, three women in turn struggle to free themselves from the men who restrict their personal freedom.
Jack Slavin is an environmentalist with a heart condition who lives with his daughter, Rose, on an isolated island. While Jack fights against developers who wish to build in the area, he also craves more contact with other people. When he invites his girlfriend, Kathleen, and her sons, Rodney and Thaddius, to move in, Rose is upset. The complicated family dynamics makes things difficult for everyone in the house.
Quirky and rebellious April Burns lives with her boyfriend in a low-rent New York City apartment miles away from her emotionally distant family. But when she discovers that her mother has a fatal form of breast cancer, she invites the clan to her place for Thanksgiving. While her father struggles to drive her family into the city, April -- an inexperienced cook -- runs into kitchen trouble and must ask a neighbor for help.
Misfits in their lives back home, a group of young people live it up at musical-theater camp. While the sports counselor is completely ignored, the kids' spend all their time in rehearsal for a grueling schedule that involves a new show every two weeks. Several personal stories come to the fore.
Three old high school friends meet in a Michigan motel room to dissect painful memories from their past.
In early 1980s Manhattan, a pair of Irish-American brothers become embroiled in a conflict with the Irish Mob.
This movie tells five stories set in a single day at the famed Chelsea Hotel in New York City, involving an ensemble cast of some 30-35 characters.
At an institute devoted to culinary and alimentary performance, a collective finds themselves embroiled in power struggles, artistic vendettas and gastrointestinal disorders.
Sophie Jacobs is going through the most difficult time of her life. Now, she just has to find out if it's real.
Against the anxieties and fears of post-9/11 America, an Arab cab driver picks up a troubled professional woman with unexpected results.
After hitting the road a man encounters characters that make him realize the importance of family.
An ex-con returns to his Florida hometown after three years and becomes involved with the wife of his best friend, the local sheriff.
It follows a singer-songwriter in a downward spiral as she takes a last effort gig at a motorcycle rally in South Dakota where she meets Casey, a guitarist who walked away from his dream long ago.
A young woman with a traumatic past seeks to rebuild her life when she begins working at a New York City antique shop.
When a marriage of convenience becomes the real thing, Joe moves his pregnant French wife to a tenement building on New York's Lower East Side. The street is like a war zone with none of the nostalgic appeal that Joe remembers from tales of his immigrant grandparents arriving in the same neighborhood with a new life. This is the urban frontier filled with comic mixture of gentrifies, homeboys, dealers and local residents simply bent on staying a float
Director Michael Almereyda's documentary on the weeks just prior to Sam Shepard's stage production of his play "The Late Henry Moss."
When her sister suddenly vanishes, a young girl sets out to find her, desperately searching the internet for clues. Joining her is an ex-CIA agent, who uncovers fragments of online chats the missing girl had with a softcore pornographer.
Widow Paramo has lost her husband in the plague. Their daughter Dolores is considering suicide with El Muerto preparing himself to welcome her into the darkness. Paramo must triumph over Death in the boxing ring if she wishes to save both her husband and daughter.