In Brooklyn, New York, Kyra (Michelle Pfeiffer) loses her job and struggles to survive on her ailing mother's income. As the weeks and months go on, her problems worsen. This leads her on a risky and enigmatic path that threatens her

A girl and her two friends raid a bank, looking for the money needed for financing the cure of her dying father.

A man in the final stages of A.I.D.S. is cared for by his sister, mother, and grandmother.

When a man is diagnosed with terminal cancer, he takes custody of his misanthropic teenage son, for whom quality time means getting high, engaging in small-time prostitution, and avoiding his father.

A highly advanced robotic boy longs to become "real" so that he can regain the love of his human mother.

A man switches plane tickets with another man who dies in that plane in a crash. The man falls in love with the deceased one's wife.

A sexually frustrated suburban father has a mid-life crisis after becoming infatuated with his daughter's best friend.

A piano player at a crossroads in his life returns home to his friends and their own problems with life and love.

During the Vietnam War, a soldier finds himself the outsider of his own squad when they unnecessarily kidnap a female villager.

The troubled life and career of jazz musician Charlie "Bird" Parker.

Dorothy Parker remembers the heyday of the Algonquin Round Table, a circle of friends whose barbed wit, like hers, was fueled by alcohol and flirted with despair.

A Colonel working at the Joint Chiefs of Staff uncovers a plot by his superior to use military force to remove the elected President, who always opposed Pentagon budget increases, and to replace him with a much tamer Vice-President.

After being thrown out of her home, a young woman decides to disguise herself as a man to survive the ruthless Wild West.

A disillusioned young writer living in New York City turns to drugs and drinking to block out the memories of his dead mother and estranged wife.

George, a lonely and fatalistic teen who has made it all the way to his senior year without ever having done a real day of work, is befriended by Sally, a popular but complicated girl who recognizes in him a kindred spirit.

In New York City, a single mom captivates her new neighbor, a much younger man.

A wealthy young man undergoing heart transplant surgery discovers that the surgical team intend to murder him.