Stationary Bike

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.

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.

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.

ภาพยนตร์ที่เรียงร้อยเรื่องราวที่อยู่เหนือกาลเวลาและความทรงจำหนังทั้งเรื่องบอกเล่าขึ้นบนพื้นที่แห่งหนึ่งในนิว อิงก์แลนด์ ตั้งแต่ยุคน้ำแข็งยุคบรรพกาล, ป่าดงดิบโบราณ, ฤดูที่พลัดเปลี่ยนจนมันกลายเป็นที่อยู่อาศัย ซึ่งทั้งความรัก, ความสูญเสีย, ความลำบาก, ความหวัง ล้วนเคยเกิดขึ้นใต้บ้านหลังนี้ บอกเล่าผ่านครอบครัว ผู้อยู่อาศัยรุ่นแล้วรุ่นเล่า

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.

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.

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.

Ex-fighter Raymundo forms an unlikely bond with a disgruntled man whose life and relationship with his daughter are unraveling. The men join forces to win a fight that could very well save Raymundo, his wife and their child.

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.

An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of getting a loan from a friend.