Lillian is hit by terminal cancer and she is angry. She pushes her daughter and grandson away to sit alone and wait for death. But life keeps interrupting her, and one day she finds herself standing in front of a man who wants to teach her to dance. As the sickness grows inside her body, a zest for life is suddenly forming. But can she escape reality?
Lillian is hit by terminal cancer and she is angry. She pushes her daughter and grandson away to sit alone and wait for death. But life keeps interrupting her, and one day she finds herself standing in front of a man who wants to teach her to dance. As the sickness grows inside her body, a zest for life is suddenly forming. But can she escape reality?
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 poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as her last chance.
A man struggles with the tragic memories of his past to make sense of his present, but soon realizes that time isn't the enemy he thinks it is.
A terminally ill mother invites her family to their country house for one final gathering, but tensions quickly boil over between her two daughters.
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 teenager faces an uphill battle when she fights to give women the opportunity to play competitive soccer.
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.
An ex-felon returns home from prison and must confront the demons of his past.
West Philadelphia basketball star Sergio Taylor deals with the pressures of fame while his brother and sister have their own issues with ambition.
In New York City, a young girl is caught in the middle of her parents' bitter custody battle.