Une théorie prétend que si l'on pouvait retourner dans le passé et changer quelques détails de notre vie, tout ce qui en découle serait modifié. On appelle cela «l'effet papillon». Evan Treborn a cette faculté. Fasciné, il va d'abord mettre ce don au service de ceux dont les vies ont été brisées dans leur enfance.
Sur fond de guerre des gangs entre Noirs américains et Juifs, un jeune homme est confondu avec son ami qui lui sous-loue son appartement et se retrouve forcé d'assassiner le fils d'un boss du crime organisé.
La seule façon pour Nick de sauver sa petite amie d'un tragique accident est d'utiliser son pouvoir en changeant le passé via ses souvenirs. Mais les actions de Nick risquent de provoquer des effets bien pires que ce qui a pu être réparé...
Sam possède la faculté de remonter le temps et l’utilise pour résoudre les crimes les plus odieux. Sa seule règle est de ne jamais intervenir dans le passé. Lorsqu’une vieille amie, Elisabeth, vient lui demander de l’aider à rechercher le meurtrier de sa soeur, Sam accepte et décide d’utiliser son pouvoir. Lorsque Sam revient de son saut dans le temps, il découvre que ses actions ont créé un tueur en série. En changeant le passé, il va être amené à traquer un tueur en série qui semble lié à ses sauts temporels.
A coming-of-age story centered around a small-town singer brokenhearted by the death of her brother in a car crash, who had secretly submitted her for a summer session at a performing arts academy in Los Angeles. In the academy, she experiences a whole new way of life in the big city, far from the small town lifestyle she's used to.
Detectives use clues from various recording devices to piece together events surrounding a massacre involving bus passengers at an abandoned gas station.
Un tueur à gages aide une jeune fille à venger la mort de ses parents...
Even though he's the only black student at the elite Palmetto Grove Academy, star basketball player and future NBA hopeful Odin James has the adoration of all, including the team's coach and the Dean's beautiful daughter Desi. Odin's troubled friend Hugo, the coach's son, is deeply resentful of his father's preference of Odin on and off the court. When Hugo plots a diabolical scheme to sow the seed of mistrust between O and Desi, it sets in motion a disturbing chain of events which erupts into a firestorm of breathtaking intensity.
When her boyfriend is arrested for marijuana possession, Joleen Reedy and her 11-year-old daughter, Tara, take refuge with Joleen's aimless brother, James. Joleen soon runs off with a truck driver, and James is unable to meet his responsibilities. After Child Protective Services takes possession of Tara, James abducts her from a foster home, and the two travel from California to Utah, where his abusive father lives.
Tired of the noise and madness of New York and the crushing conventions of late Eisenhower-era America, itinerant journalist Paul Kemp travels to the pristine island of Puerto Rico to write for a local San Juan newspaper run by the downtrodden editor Lotterman. Adopting the rum-soaked lifestyle of the late ‘50s version of Hemingway’s 'The Lost Generation', Paul soon becomes entangled with a very attractive American woman and her fiancée, a businessman involved in shady property development deals. It is within this world that Kemp ultimately discovers his true voice as a writer and integrity as a man.
While other kids buy into countless hours of studying just so they can get a mark in some teacher's report book, Handsome Davis sees it as nothing more than a system of control over your mind. That's why Handsome and his three best friends Sammy, Victor and the cribsheet genius Applebee have banded together and found ways to cheat on their tests all through their school years.
Sixteen American college students drink, flirt, fight and canoodle during their Spring Break vacation in Cancun, Mexico.