A couple is driven apart by the wife’s preference for country living while the husband has political ambitions. They separate with the wife keeping their young daughter with her. Three years later when the husband is running for Congress he is selected to judge a beautiful baby contest, when he chooses his own child without recognizing her the pair realize how much they have lost and reconcile.
Helen Badgley
The Prize Baby
Florence La Badie
Mary, The Baby's Mother
Dorothy Benham
A couple is driven apart by the wife’s preference for country living while the husband has political ambitions. They separate with the wife keeping their young daughter with her. Three years later when the husband is running for Congress he is selected to judge a beautiful baby contest, when he chooses his own child without recognizing her the pair realize how much they have lost and reconcile.
A man reflects on the lost love of his youth and his long-ago journey from Taiwan to America as he begins to reconnect with his estranged daughter.
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 daughter seeks to restore the reputation of her disgraced father, a wronged college professor. With help of a professional student, she must overcome an ambitious sorority bitch and corrupt college dean.
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.
Carla Zachanassian had a child by Serge Miller as a teenager. When Serge refused to marry her, she was driven out of town. By her own wit and cunning, she has returned as a multi-millionaire for a visit. The town lays out the red carpet expecting big things from Carla, only to learn that her sole purpose is to see Serge Miller killed...
In New York City, a young girl is caught in the middle of her parents' bitter custody battle.
Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era.
Middle-aged widow Beatrice Hunsdorfer and her daughters Ruth and Matilda are struggling to survive in a society they barely understand. Beatrice dreams of opening an elegant tea room but does not have the wherewithal to achieve her lofty goal. Epileptic Ruth is a rebellious adolescent, while shy but highly intelligent and idealistic Matilda seeks solace in her pets and school projects, including one designed to show how small amounts of radium affect marigolds.
The relationship of a couple who meet by chance in New York City is put to the test when they encounter a life or death circumstance.
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.