A Larger Life

Two law school friends find themselves at odds when one becomes a Justice Department lawyer and the other goes into politics.

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.

American retired Judge Randall Nemes and his hired gun, Gaspar, track down a con man posing as a priest in a small Colombian town only to be thrown off-course by a scrappy 16-year-old girl intent on reuniting with her sister in the United States.

Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell.

A pair of twin brothers from East L.A. choose to live their lives differently and end up on opposite sides of the law.

An ex-con struggling to readjust to life in his small town forms an intense bond with his former high-school teacher.

In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, and neglects her daughter and husband. Lawyer Jim Train is devoted to his career, not his family. Helen Christianson wants to find a new spark in life, while Annette Jennings tries to rebuild hers.

An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court.

A psychotherapist helps a law student cope with schizophrenia in one of five interconnected tales dealing with mental illness.

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.