Injuries sustained by two Army rangers behind enemy lines in Afghanistan set off a sequence of events involving a congressman, a journalist and a professor.

A quietly troubled young man returns home for his mother's funeral after being estranged from his family for a decade.

A mild-mannered secretary discovers that she has a talent for murder as she ascends the corporate ladder.

Disgruntled Korean War veteran Walt Kowalski sets out to reform his neighbor, Thao Lor, a Hmong teenager who tried to steal Kowalski's prized possession: a 1972 Gran Torino.