Chynne takes on the unexpected role of a caregiver after she rescues her niece, Z, from her drug-addicted mother. With no place to sleep, she resorts to stealing packages with hopes of selling the merchandise to pay for a room. After an unsuccessful first attempt, she finds something worth selling but will it get her what she wants? —Sunny Bonner
Jennifer Beatty
Chynne
Ivy Jax
Z
Jared Hermann
Santa
Angela Williams
Homeowner
Oneil Cassells
Neighbor
Keith 'Kebo' Alexander
Security Guard
Chynne takes on the unexpected role of a caregiver after she rescues her niece, Z, from her drug-addicted mother. With no place to sleep, she resorts to stealing packages with hopes of selling the merchandise to pay for a room. After an unsuccessful first attempt, she finds something worth selling but will it get her what she wants? —Sunny Bonner
Russ Millings has just been released from prison after serving 21 years for a 3rd strike conviction for possessing an ounce of marijuana. As he tries to adapt to a world he doesn’t recognize – including trying to learn how to use the internet – he finds an abandoned baby in a dumpster behind the fast food restaurant where he works as a dishwasher. Unsure of what to do, and caught between impulses of kindness and panic, Russ soon realizes this could be his chance at redemption.
Mouse desperately wants to join The Midnight Clique, the infamous Baltimore dirt bike riders who rule the summertime streets. When Midnight’s leader, Blax, takes 14-year-old Mouse under his wing, Mouse soon finds himself torn between the straight-and-narrow and a road filled with fast money and violence.
Thomas Montgomery, a married father of two young daughters, gets seduced by the world of online gambling and chat rooms where a virtual romance and sexual obsession ultimately leads to the murder of an innocent man.
After her stay-at-home husband leaves her, a workaholic lawyer finds that she is not completely up to the tasks of caring for her young son, ailing father and household all by herself.
When seventeen-year-old Hannah stumbles upon a website about Thinspiration--an online community devoted to anorexia as a life choice--she becomes an obsessive follower of the site founder, ButterflyAna. By the time Hannah's family realizes what is happening and get Hannah the help she needs, the disease has fully taken hold and Hannah is refusing to eat. Will this family be able to exorcise the demon of anorexia from their lives?
A street smart runner develops an intense rivalry with an equally ambitious wealthy young athlete.
A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.
A pro ball player with a substance abuse problem is forced into rehab in his hometown, finding new hope when he gets honest about his checkered past, and takes on coaching duties for a misfit Little League team
Based on a true story. Liz Murray is a young girl who is taken care of by her loving, but drug-addicted parents. Liz becomes homeless at 15 and after a tragedy comes upon her, she begins her work to finish high school.
Agnes and her two sisters struggle through a day in a home overrun by gamblers, thieves, and johns.