Denise Nickerson

A poor boy wins the oppurtunity to tour the most eccentric and wonderful candy factory of all (imdb)

It's time again for California's "Young American Miss" beauty pageant, the biggest event of the year for Big Bob Freelander and Brenda DiCarlo, who give their all to put on a successful pageant. But Brenda is having marital difficulties and Bob's son is up to some mischief. Could this year's pageant be in jeopardy? (imdb)

A divorced man hooks up with a street-smart 16-year-old who makes her living by repossessing cars from their owners. (imdb)

A housewife and her teenage daughter, fleeing their boring lives, stops in a diner in the California desert. She runs up against the diner's owner, a gruff, beer-drinking artist whose life's work are the neon sculptures he creates and attaches to the ceiling. (imdb)

When an emotionally-disturbed young boy shuts out all of his family and friends, a counselor tries to help bring him and his family together again.