A World War II veteran wants to return to advertising on his own terms, but finds it difficult to be successful and maintain his integrity.

Nick Naylor is a charismatic spin-doctor for Big Tobacco who'll fight to protect America's right to ...

Headly, a 15-year-old teenager, thinks her mother, Rene, has mourned her father's death long enough,...

When an alien takes the form of a young widow's husband and asks her to drive him from Wisconsin to ...

The fastest man on four wheels, Ricky Bobby, is one of the greatest drivers in NASCAR history. A big...

Alejandro is an aspiring toy designer from El Salvador, struggling to bring his unusual ideas to lif...

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...

After World War II, Antonia and her daughter, Danielle, go back to their Dutch hometown, where Anton...

Bertram Pincus, a cranky, people-hating Manhattan dentist, develops the unwelcome ability to see dea...

In this humorous paean to the joys of food, a pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit roadside ...

When his mother eloped with an Italian opera singer, Louis Mazzini was cut off from her aristocratic...

The story of an old Jewish widow named Daisy Werthan and her relationship with her black chauffeur, ...

Paul Rivers, an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English émigré; Christina Peck, an upp...

In 1930s fascist Italy, adolescent Luca just lost his mother. His father, a callous businessman, sen...

After a workplace shooting in New Orleans, a trial against the gun manufacturer pits lawyer Wendell ...

Five years after the death of her wife, an unassuming bookstore owner attempts to accept new love wh...

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...

Steve Brooks, a sexist womanizer, is killed by a group of his angry former lovers. In heaven, he mak...