Jack Torrance is haunted by writer’s block and a recovering alcoholic. He drags Wendy and Danny up the Overlook Hotel in Colorado after he took up an assignment as an…
Alvy Singer is a 40-year old, twice divorced, neurotic and intellectual Jewish New York City comedian. He reflects upon the end of his current relationship to Annie Hall. Annie, who…
Popeye is a bright-eyed, corn pipe-smoking, spinach-hating, grumbling, and squinty-eyed sailor who arrived just in Sweethaven. His overly strong forearms are partly a result of genetics. Popeye has been sailing…
C. D. Bales, chief of firemen in Nelson is a complex man because he has a large nose. Dixie, his friend rents Roxanne’s house to Roxanne, an astronomy student. He…
An awkward young teen working at a spa becomes overly attached to her fellow worker, a lonely outcast. They hang out at a bar owned by a strange pregnant artist…
Shep Ramsey is an interstellar hero, righting wrongs, et cetera. His ship is damaged after a fight with an interstellar nasty, and he must hide out on Earth until it…
Brewster is an owlish, intellectual boy who lives in a fallout shelter of the Houston Astrodome. He has a dream: to take flight within the confines of the stadium. Brewster…
Thirteen-year-old Jesse is a typical teenager who hates his teacher, Mrs. Fink. While visiting a vintage clothing shop, Jesse sees a doll that looks exactly like his dreaded teacher, and…
Michael Chambers returns home to celebrate his mother's marriage. Michael had been ousted from his home town due to his gambling indiscretions and had left his wife to deal with…
Hamburger joint waitress Sally Jackson is pregnant. When Beatrice, the wife of the father, finds out about his infidelity, she sends her sons from a previous marriage, military pilots Angus…
Two convicts break out of Mississippi State Penitentiary in 1936 to join a third on a long spree of bank robbing, their special talent and claim to fame. The youngest…
