Follows Emma as she writes a book in order to cope with a deadly home invasion and how a new terror will be unleashed, after a reading performed in her home,

A disk containing mysterious information from a CIA agent ends up in the hands of two unscrupulous and daft gym employees who attempt to sell it.

Wayne's an actor with money problems. He finally accepts his parents' advice of teaching in high school (temp). He makes Shakespeare seem fun. He meets and likes Amy, a colleague. However, he's still looking for parts as actor.

Making good on a promise he made to his dying wife, a widower (Jones) opens a reading room, a place where people can learn to read. Despite his goodwill, problems in the neighborhood threaten his establishment.

A resourceful boy creatively uses poetry to survive when his mother, a disturbed avant garde painter, locks him in a puppet box and builds an art installation around his imprisonment.

Friends reunite to join their buddy's widow in searching the house for money he hid from the IRS.