Bessie and Lee, two sisters in their forties, haven’t had any contact for many years. Bessie lives in Florida with her elderly, bedridden father, Marvin, and her Aunt Ruth, whom she lovingly cares for. She isn’t married, and has never had her own family. When medical tests reveal she has leukemia, her doctor phones her […]
Alan and Molly are a couple; they’ve been together for a few years. He is a professor of literature at a small college, and an unpublished writer, often arrogant, somewhat lost. She is his girlfriend, without her own goals or self-definitions, not highly educated, but a very kind and sensitive person. They live together and […]
Sam was once married to Bunny Kincaid and he worked for her father, but the marriage failed. Bunny is, indeed, unbalanced. She is depressed, has obviously had some episodes with fire, and covers her deep anxiety with a football obsession. Sam shows up to pick up some things he stored with her; he has taken […]
Sam Deeds is a sheriff of a small Texas border town. His father, Buddy Deeds, was a deputy in the late fifties under a corrupt sheriff, Charlie Wade, but Buddy stood up to Charlie’s bullying and Charlie disappeared soon after, never to be heard from again. Buddy then became sheriff, and was loved and respected […]
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. […]
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, […]
Gelsomina is sold by her impoverished mother to the Gypsy Zampanò. Zampanò makes a living as a strongman and uses cruelty, both physical and emotional, to train Gelsomina as his assistant. During their travels, they become acquainted with another street entertainer, Il Matto (“The Fool”), who maliciously teases the strongman at every opportunity. After getting […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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