Ο 20χρονος Τζόνι, παρόλο το νεαρό της ηλικίας του, είναι πατέρας δύο παιδιών από διαφορετικές μάνες. Το γεγονός αυτό δεν τον πτοεί να αναλάβει τις πατρικές του ευθύνες. Αρνούμενος πεισματικά να μεγαλώσει, ζει με τη μητέρα του που τον συντηρεί οικονομικά, καθώς αυτός είναι άνεργος εκ πεποιθήσεως. Όταν όμως η μητέρα του συνάπτει σχέσεις με τον Μέλβιν, τα πράγματα δυσκολεύουν γι` αυτόν, καθώς πρέπει πλέον να συντηρηθεί από μόνος του. Και σαν να μην του έφτανε αυτό, μαθαίνει πως αποφυλακίστηκε ο πρώην φίλος της αγαπημένης του, και ζητάει τώρα την εκδίκησή του.
Married small-time crooks Lou-Jean and Clovis Poplin lose their baby to the state of Texas and resolve to do whatever it takes to get him back. Lou-Jean gets Clovis out of jail, and the two steal their son from his foster home, in addition to taking a highway patrolman hostage. As a massive dragnet starts to pursue them across Texas, the couple become unlikely folk heroes and even start to bond with the captive policeman.
Struggling but unapologetically living on her own terms, Inez is moving from shelter to shelter in mid-1990s New York City. With her 6-year-old son Terry in foster care and unable to leave him again, she kidnaps him so they can build their life together. As the years go by, their family grows and Terry becomes a smart yet quiet teenager, but the secret that has defined their lives threatens to destroy the home they have so improbably built.
Three boys, they all committed murder. After discovering their haunting faces and disturbing stories in a banned prison documentary from 1984, the filmmaker goes out to find them and discovers untold secrets and a Hungary he has never known.
Hired at a slaughterhouse thanks to a social reinsertion program, an ex-convict struggles to find another job while repressing the violence that boils within him.
Thoughtful documentary exploring the shocking court decision to grant custody to a child’s father, a convicted murderer, rather than her lesbian mother.
A quest for redemption is unfolding in Washington, D.C. Thanks to forward-looking “Second Chance” legislation, three men who were sentenced in their youth to life in prison have the chance to plead for release.