1972. Vada, played by Anna Chlumsky, is an 11-year-old girl who’s intelligent and bubbly. Harry, her father (Dan Aykroyd) is a widower and mortician. Thomas J Sennett (Macaulay Curtis) is…
The parents of a suburban Chicago teenager go on vacation. He gets down to it. He takes a trip with his dad’s Porsche, and suddenly needs lots of cash. Jon…
Vada has an assignment and a holiday. She has to write an essay about someone she admires but has not met. Although she decides to write an essay about her…
Teenager Les Anderson thinks his life can’t get any worse after he flunks his driver’s exam, but he’s wrong. Even though he didn’t receive his license, Les refuses to break…
Michael and Ellie break into a military junkyard to find a science project for Michael’s class, and discover a strange glowing orb which absorbs electricity. When the orb begins to…
William Walker, his mercenary corp and others enter Nicaragua at the beginning of the 19th Century to establish a coup-d’etat government. An American multimillionaire has his own interests in the…
Nicaragua 1979. Star photographer Russel price covers the civil war against President Somoza. He is often unable to remain neutral when he has to face the brutal fighting between army…
John, a disillusioned Vietnam War journalist, turns to heroin smuggling. He cons Ray, an equally burnt out veteran into delivering the drugs stateside to his wife. Everything soon falls apart…
Two aging fighters in LA, friends, get a call from a Vegas promoter because his undercard fighters for a Mike Tyson bout that night are suddenly unavailable. He wants them…
Charlie Cox should have stopped for gas in California. While he’s on a cross-country trip with his teenage daughter, Joleen, his car hits empty in a creepy town in Nevada….
An abused battered wife has had enough of husband beating up on her. Everywhere she turns for help, there’s not much anyone will do. After he rapes her one night,…
Malcolm Anderson is a reporter for a Miami newspaper. He's had enough of reporting the local murders and so promises his school teacher girlfriend (Christine), they'll move away soon. Before…
The story of a relationship between a teacher and his troubled pupil. Justin McLeod is a former teacher who lives as a recluse on the edge of town. His face…
Lyle, a motorcycle champion is traveling the Mexican desert, when he find himself in the action radius of a time machine. So he find himself one century back in the…
In 1989, clean-cut FBI man John Buckner is detailed to escort heavily-bearded Huey Walker back to jail for offenses dating back to his days as a celebrated hippie radical. After…
An autobiographical look at the break-up of Screenwriter Nora Ephron's marriage to Carl "All the President's Men" Bernstein that was also a best-selling novel. The Ephron character, Rachel Samstat (Meryl…
A collection of short stories. In one a woman who leaves her house late at night to drive to the store while a killer is loose encounters some problems. In…
Mickey Gordon is a basketball referee who travels to France to bury his father. Ellen Andrews, an American living in Paris, works for the airline Mickey flies on. They meet…