A man struggling to find purpose in life is enlightened by a drunk ailing widow.
Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulga...
During a writing slump, playwright J.M. Barrie meets a widow and her four children, all young boys—w...
Fast Eddie Felson is a small-time pool hustler with a lot of talent but a self-destructive attitude....
Gilbert Grape is a small-town young man with a lot of responsibility. Chief among his concerns are h...
Paul Rivers, an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English émigré; Christina Peck, an upp...
The story of the widow of Lee Harvey Oswald, the man accused of shooting President Kennedy. Via flas...
In 1935 rural Texas, recently widowed Edna Spaulding struggles to survive with two small children, a...
After a workplace shooting in New Orleans, a trial against the gun manufacturer pits lawyer Wendell ...
After her husband runs off with his secretary, Terry Wolfmeyer is left to fend for herself -- and he...
Two fugitives land in hot water when they take a hostage who poses a threat to their well-being.
The infamous story of Benjamin Barker, a.k.a Sweeney Todd, who sets up a barber shop down in London ...
Quincy Adams Wagstaff, the new president of Huxley U, hires bumblers Baravelli and Pinky to help his...
Martha Beck, an obese nurse who is desperately lonely, joins a "correspondence club" and finds a rom...
Magali, forty-something, is a winemaker and a widow: she loves her work but feels lonely. Her friend...
An uptight English writer traveling to Crete on a matter of business finds his life changed forever ...
The only son of wealthy widow Violet Venable dies while on vacation with his cousin Catherine. What ...
A widowed field mouse must move her family -- including an ailing son -- to escape a farmer's plow. ...
One night at a German pub can bring you philosophic arguments about being a machine, the difference ...
A small, turbulent town in Texas obsesses over their high school football team to an unhealthy degre...
Kreuzeder was once a successful commissioner, but now he rarely solves a case. After more than 20 ye...