Undiagnosed, untreated and generally untethered schizophrenic Julien lives with his pregnant younger sister Pearl, anorexic would-be wrestler brother Chris, sympathetic grandmother, and severely depressed German father.

When 13-year-old Tracy befriends Evie, the most popular girl in school, her life is turned upside do...

The hardships of modern life for one of the families, unhappy in its own way and at the same time re...

Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the myste...

A couple agree to have their deceased son cloned under the supervision of an enigmatic doctor, but b...

An Oakland mayoral candidate struggles to figure out her personal and professional lives.

A street-wise kid, Mark Sway, sees the suicide of Jerome Clifford, a prominent Louisiana lawyer, who...

Abortionist Vera Drake finds her beliefs and practices clash with the mores of 1950s Britain – a con...

The story of an imaginative boy who pretends he is the child of a sperm-laden Sicilian tomato upon w...

Two young brothers in contemporary Russia are reunited with a father they know only from an old phot...

Following the arrest of her mother, Ramona, young Vanessa Lutz decides to go in search of her estran...

Aging King George III of England is exhibiting signs of madness, a problem little understood in 1788...

Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of Turkey. The Turkish courts decide to make a...

Ort Flack is 12 years old and lives with his mother and his sister Tegwyn in the Australian outback....

Blonde Betty Elms has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigma...

Tom Ripley is a calculating young man who believes it's better to be a fake somebody than a real nob...

While grieving a terrible loss, a married couple meet two mysterious sisters, one of whom gives them...

Simon Henderson is at boarding school in Canada while his father works in Hong Kong, and his mother ...

A recent widow invites her husband's troubled best friend to live with her and her two children. As ...

Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychia...

Dr. Kildare's friend Dr. Gillespie is called in to investigate when a young man suffering from menta...