Scott Kendall is an exceptional young ballroom dancer in Australia. His parents were ballroom dancers before him, and they now own a ballroom dance studio. Fran is a beginning dancer. Scott has recently lost his dance partner, Liz. She left him at the last competition, after Scott started dancing his own non-federation steps. Scott wants […]
Doreen and Earl are an unhappy, blue collar couple in their forties. They live in a small trailer-type house in a bad section of Los Angeles. Doreen works at a diner as a waitress. Earl works a string of dead-end jobs, his current one being a limo driver. She’s just had a close brush with […]
Ralph and Marian are married. He is a doctor, she is a painter; they have a “nice” life in a comfortable home in Los Angeles, but their relationship is distant and lacks intimacy and compassion. They’re expecting guests for dinner, people they barely know. Yesterday, Ralph walked in on Marian painting her sister Sherri nude […]
Cynthia has been having an affair with her sister’s husband, John. When John’s old friend Graham shows up in town, not only is John’s wife Ann drawn to him, but so is Cynthia. She even goes to his house and makes an “interview” tape on which she masturbates. Ann is appalled, and so is John, […]
Frank and Denice work at the same police precinct. They are divorced, and Denice has remarried Frank’s partner, Gruber. Frank drinks too much and lately has been going through a bad time; he’s been calling Denice at home at all hours, drunk. Denice has moved on, but Frank is stuck in his lonely life. Here […]
Martin is blind. Celia, Martin’s housekeeper, is aware of Martin’s new friendship with a man named Andy and feels threatened by it. She pursues her agenda to seduce Martin even more vigorously. She takes a Polaroid of Martin on the toilet and threatens to post it in public unless he goes out with her for […]
Out of Africa is based on the memoirs of Karen Von Blixen, who moved to Kenya from her native Denmark and eventually ran a farm in Africa on her own. Her husband mostly absent, eventually gone altogether, Karen has an affair with Denys, an adventurer who can’t be tied down. He “lives with” her – […]
Robby and Sam used to be married. They also used to work together fighting rare infectious diseases. Now there has been an outbreak of ebola in Zaire; Sam has been there working. He has asked Robby to stay with the dogs. But she was supposed to leave for her new job in Atlanta at the […]
Claudia still lives in the small working class Long Island town where she grew up. She works as a waitress in the local diner and never acted upon her dreams of getting out and doing something better with her life. Charlie is her ex-boyfriend; he has returned home after an absence of three or four […]
Nina and the photographer are two married people having an affair. Nina has spent the night at the photographer’s studio. She gets up and goes through his slides, not expecting to find what she finds. […]
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