"THE NEXT GREAT AMERICAN DINER FILM!"
An anthology film surrounding the fictional Lighthouse Diner, Heartbreak, Coffee, and a Pack of Cigarettes, explores the complications of love through various vignettes within the confines of a classic American diner.
Melvin Pralgo
Jack
Marilyn Light
Ada
Andrew VanCamp
Noah
Jacob Kaufman
Finn
Taylor-Kate Eubanks
Harper
Jordan Patrick
Tom
Alyssa Talbot
Kelli
David Yijae
Andrew
Ben VanderMey
Mike
An anthology film surrounding the fictional Lighthouse Diner, Heartbreak, Coffee, and a Pack of Cigarettes, explores the complications of love through various vignettes within the confines of a classic American diner.
An odyssey through time and memory, centered on a place in New Jersey where—from wilderness, and then, later, from a home—love, loss, struggle, hope and legacy play out between couples and families over generations.
After a convivial holiday dinner party, things begin to unravel when a husband and wife address some prickly issues concerning their marriage.
A grieving widower is drawn into a custody battle over his granddaughter, whom he helped raise her entire life.
Feeling awkward and isolated, an imaginative and strong-willed teenage girl runs away from home with an older punk rock drifter.
Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years earlier. Memories fill the gaps between camcorder footages as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the troubled man she didn't.
A 10-year-old boy spends a summer in the country with a childless couple and a precocious girl.
On a weekend backpacking trip in the Catskills, 17-year-old Sam contends with the competing egos of her father and his oldest friend.
Jamie Fitzpatrick and Nona Alberts are two women from opposites sides of the social and economic track, but they have one thing in common: a mission to fix their community's broken school and ensure a bright future for their children. The two women refuse to let any obstacles stand in their way as they battle a bureaucracy that's hopelessly mired in traditional thinking, and they seek to re-energize a faculty that has lost its passion for teaching.
Emilia, a law-school graduate, falls in love with her married boss, Jack. After Emilia marries Jack, her happiness turns unexpectedly to grief following the death of her infant daughter. Devastated, Emilia nonetheless carries on, attempting to forge a connection with her stepson William and to resist the interference of Jack's jealous ex-wife.
A young woman lives a life filled with bad choices. At a young age she marries and has a child--with an abusive thief who quickly ends up in prison. Left alone, she takes up with the guy's mate, another thief, who seems to give her some happiness but who also ends up locked up. She then takes up with a series of seedy types who offer nothing but momentary pleasure--if that.