The Usurer

When housewife Trina wins the lottery, her comfortable life with her dentist husband John slowly deteriorates, in part by her own increasing paranoia and partly by the machinations of villainous acquaintance Marcus.

On a whim, a greedy tycoon decides to corner the world market in wheat. This doubles the price of bread, forcing grain producers into charity lines and others further into poverty. The film contrasts the differences between the lives of those who work to grow the wheat and the life of the man who dabbles in its sale for profit.

After flying home to L.A. for the funeral of his estranged record-producer father, a struggling man discovers that the will stipulates that he must deliver $150,000 in cash to a 30-year-old alcoholic sister he never knew existed, and her troubled 12-year-old son.

นวนิยายอันที่โปรดปรานของชาร์ลส์ ดิคเกนส์ กลับมามีชีวิตอีกครั้งพร้อมดาราดังมากมาย เช่น นาธาน เลน, จิม บรอดเบนต์, คริสโตเฟอร์ พลัมเมอร์ และชาร์ลี ฮันแนม ในบทนิโคลัส นิคเคิลบี ผู้ไม่อาจระงับอารมณ์ได้ ซึ่งออกเดินทางผจญภัยเพื่อรวมตัวครอบครัวที่แตกสลาย

William Hundert is a passionate and principled Classics professor who finds his tightly-controlled world shaken and inexorably altered when a new student, Sedgewick Bell, walks into his classroom. What begins as a fierce battle of wills gives way to a close student-teacher relationship, but results in a life lesson for Hundert that will still haunt him a quarter of a century later.

Farmer Jabez Stone, about to lose his land, agrees to sell his soul to the devil, known as Mr. Scratch, who gives Jabez seven years to enjoy the fruits of his sale before he collects. Over that time, Jabez pays off his debts and helps many neighboring farmers, then becomes an advocate for the upstanding Sen. Daniel Webster. When Jabez's contract with Mr. Scratch concludes, he desperately turns to Webster to represent him in a trial for his soul.

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.

Fed up with her small-town marriage, a woman goes after the big time and gets mixed up with the mob.

ในผลงานที่สร้างจากเรื่องจริง พนักงานซูเปอร์มาร์เก็ตคนหนึ่งมีโอกาสก้าวไปเป็นดาวดังในการแข่งขันซูเปอร์โบวล์ หลังได้รับการทาบทามให้มาเล่นอเมริกันฟุตบอลระดับอาชีพ

An optimistic, talented teen clings to a huge secret: she's homeless and living on a school bus. When tragedy strikes, can she learn to accept a helping hand?