Billie Lou Watt

It's a wet summer day on upstate New York's Route 90. A serial killer is loose from the local penitentiary. A hymn-singing grandma picks up a shadow-boxing hitchhiker. She offers him a ride to the end of the road, where Route 90 hits the Interstate.

Inspired by the Stanley Milgram obedience research, this TV movie chronicles a psychology professor's study to determine why people, such as the Nazis, were willing to "just follow orders" and do horrible things to others. Professor Stephen Turner leads students to believe that they are applying increasingly painful electric shocks to other subjects when they fail to perform a task correctly, and is alarmed to see how much pain the students can be convinced to inflict "in the name of science."

An adventurous young boy named Jack climbs a giant beanstalk to a magical kingdom governed by a greedy, tyrannical giant.