Lianna has moved out of the house she shared with her ex-husband Dick. She has her own apartment, and she’s gotten a job checking groceries. Lianna hasn’t been able to see her children often, and she knows that her lover, Ruth, is seeing her former lover and trying to decide to whom she will commit. […]
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Lianna
Lianna is the young wife of a film studies professor at a small college. She used to be his student; they had an affair and now have been married several years, much of it unhappily. Dick still sleeps with his students, and takes no pains to hide it from Lianna. They have two children now, […]
Just Before the War with the Eskimos
Ginnie and Selena are high school classmates who also have tennis together. After each game, they take a cab ride home. Ginnie has always paid, but on this particular day, she decides to stand up for herself and demand her money. Selena is hurt by Ginnie’s demand, but Ginnie still demands her money. At Selena’s […]
Johnny Suede
Johnny has moved in with Yvonne; it’s his birthday and she has prepared a celebration at home with cake and presents. Johnny, however, doesn’t show. He has followed a girl he saw in the grocery store to her apartment and had sex with her. He falls asleep by accident, then wakes up to realize how […]
I Am Sam
Sam Dawson, a mentally challenged man with the mental equivalency of a 7-year-old, is living in Los Angeles and is single-handedly raising his daughter Lucy. After a series of events, a social worker takes Lucy away. A judge allows Sam only two supervised, two-hour visits per week. Sam’s friends recommend that he hire Rita, a […]
Husbands and Wives
Sally is newly separated from her husband, Jack. She goes out on a date with her colleague, Michael. He walks her home at the end of the night, and she invites him in. […]
Hud
Hud is attracted to his family’s middle-aged housekeeper, Alma, and he is crude and insulting to her. Although Hud’s fondness for her is (at first) somewhat mutual, Alma keeps her distance because she has already been “around the block” with macho womanizers like Hud. […]
Holy Smoke!
During a trip to India, Ruth Barron has a spiritual awakening and embraces the teachings of a guru named Baba. Her parents are appalled, and through a series of events, they put her in the hands of an American exit counselor who deprograms members of religious cults. In a remote cabin, he isolates Ruth, separates […]
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
Corporal Allison, a U.S. Marine, is a survivor of a failed island scouting/reconnaissance mission in the Pacific during World War 2. After days of being adrift in a rubber raft, Allison arrives on an island and finds an abandoned settlement and a chapel with one occupant: Sister Angela, a novice nun who has not yet […]
Grand Canyon
Dee works for Mack as his secretary/assistant. They have had a one-night stand, but it didn’t blossom into an affair. Mack is married, relatively happily, but something is missing from his life. He’s recently met a man, a tow-truck driver who helped him out of a dangerous situation when Mack broke down in a crime-ridden […]