A televsion reporter tasked with making a feature about Jean Jacques Rousseau's upcoming 300th birthday uses a local Swiss boy with a remarkable knowledge about the philosopher as her angle for the feature. She then brings in a local professor and Rousseau expert to try to explain how this boy could possibly know so much about a philosopher who died over a hundred years before he was even born. What unfolds is a story about friendship, nature, and the unequal distribution of wealth.
The story of a virtuoso piano player who lives his entire life aboard an ocean liner. Born and raise...
Grady is a 50-ish English professor who hasn't had a thing published in years—not since he wrote his...
In this belated sequel to 'The Decline of the American Empire', middle-aged Montreal college profess...
An Edinburgh professor and assorted colleagues follow an explorer's trail down an extinct Icelandic ...
A man against capital punishment is accused of murdering a fellow activist and is sent to death row.
Obsessive scientist Nathan and his lover, the naturalist Lila, discover Puff: a man born and raised ...
From the heights of notoriety to the depths of depravity, John Forbes Nash Jr. experiences it all. A...
At an elite, old-fashioned boarding school in New England, a passionate English teacher inspires his...
On one random day in the San Fernando Valley, a dying father, a young wife, a male caretaker, a famo...
A history professor and his wife entertain a young couple who are new to the university's faculty. A...
On the South Pacific island of Bora Bora, a young couple's love is threatened when the tribal chief ...
While doing a series of reports on alternative energy sources, opportunistic reporter Kimberly Wells...
The mother of a severely traumatized daughter enlists the aid of a unique horse trainer to help the ...
Crotchety retired doctor Isak Borg travels from Stockholm to Lund, Sweden, with his pregnant and unh...
Fiona and Grant have been married for nearly 50 years. They have to face the fact that Fiona’s absen...
Genius Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates the murder of an American tycoon aboard the Ori...
Drama critic Larry Mackay, his wife Kate and their four sons move from their crowded Manhattan apart...
When the experienced guide Vic accompanies the city boy Alan and his three friends on their first wi...
Bumbling professor Ned Brainard accidentally invents flying rubber, or "Flubber", an incredible mate...
The world is a perplexing, peaceful mystery to Amélie until a miraculous encounter with chocolate ig...