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Francie and Joe live the usual playful, fantasy filled childhoods of normal boys. However, with a violent, alcoholic father and a manic depressive, suicidal mother the pressure on Francie to grow up are immense. Unfortunately, one tragedy after another, Francie's world sinks deeper and deeper into paranoia and fantasy.

Birdee Calvert (Bullock) seems to have it all. She's been married for years to her handsome high school sweetheart Bill and has a brilliant and sensitive child. But when her picture perfect life comes crashing down around her, Birdee must start over. With no place else to turn, the former beauty queen heads back home...to Smithville, Texas. (Fox)

Feriha, a young journalist, is going through a period during which everything in her life is going wrong. She pursues the difficult job of explaining what life in Turkey was like, in the seventies, a period during which there is a rampant and murderous terror. (imdb)

A young woman thinks her uncle may be a serial killer.

Stephen Sondheim's Tony Award winning show depicting society and the world through the eyes of the most famous fairy tales centered around a baker & his wife. (imdb)

The story of four generations of a Russian Jewish family of musicians parallels the history of American popular music in the 20th century. (imdb)

A Michigan farmer and a prospector form a partnership in the California gold country. Their adventures include buying and sharing a wife, hijacking a stage, kidnaping six prostitutes, and turning their mining camp into a boomtown. (imdb)

A look behind the scenes at the re-birth of Disney animation (imdb)

The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman. (imdb)

A disparate group are trapped on a remote island by a hurricane. On the island, a doctor works to make humans twice as small as we already are. This, apparently, will help prevent over population. Unfortunately, his experiments have also created some giant shrews. As the shrews run out of smaller animals to eat, they move in on the people in the house. (imdb)