El teniente Tom Royko (Judge Reinhold), de la unidad de explosivos de Seattle, investigará junto a la cirujana Dra. Gillian Hayes (Penelope Ann Miller) las misteriosas muertes de varios pacientes de la doctora, que literalmente y sin saber por qué explotaron en extrañas circunstancias.
Drama ambientado en la década de los 50, en Estados Unidos, que retrata los años adolescentes de un muchacho, a través de la relación que éste tiene con su madre y con su destructivo y autoritario padrastro.
Diagnosed as having a brain tumor, seventeen-year-old Ryan is angrily resigned to the fact that he may not live to see another year. With time running out, he clings to two goals: publishing his journal and losing his virginity. But as Ryan finds fresh strength from his new friends' optimism and defiant refusal to surrender to cancer, his perspective changes.
La guerra de secesión se ha llevado todo el oro del Sur. Los únicos que tienen dinero son los vecinos del Norte, pero para hacerse con él hay que llevar las reses durante más de mil kilómetros a través del infierno. El primero que logre llevar su rebaño hasta allí se hará de oro.
Two brothers' lives are changed forever when they hit the road to a snowbound Alaskan village. Brother Ray and Pete had been feuding for years. So, when their ailing father asks them to drive a semitruck full of gifts and supplies from California to the isolated Alaskan village of Willow Creek, they agree ---- reluctantly. Along the way, they pick up trouble when they're joined by Jessie, who is Ray's estranged wife and Pete's ex-girlfriend. Then, a blizzard strands the truck deep in the Alaskan wilderness. Miles from help, with time running our fast, they realize only a miracle can save them. But, as they are about to be reminded, Christmas...is the season for miracles.
Un viaje a través de los Estados Unidos en la época de la Gran Depresión, que toma como pretexto la odisea de una niña que recorre diversos estados para encontrar a su padre.