Evacuee with Theory
Jack Gladney, professor of Hitler studies at The-College-on-the-Hill, husband to Babette, and father to four children/stepchildren, is torn asunder by a chemical spill from a rail car that releases an "Airborne Toxic Event" forcing Jack to confront his biggest fear - his own mortality.
Sidney's Mom
J.R. is a fatherless boy growing up in the glow of a bar where the bartender, his Uncle Charlie, is the sharpest and most colorful of an assortment of quirky and demonstrative father figures. As the boy’s determined mother struggles to provide her son with opportunities denied to her — and leave the dilapidated home of her outrageous if begrudgingly supportive father — J.R. begins to gamely, if not always gracefully, pursue his romantic and professional dreams, with one foot persistently placed in Uncle Charlie’s bar.
Mary
Mary is an ambitious Jamaican woman determined to live a grand life; her adventures take her across oceans and eras, from a battlefield of the Crimean War to a contemporary nursing home, and many times and places in between.
Marianne (3rd Tenant)
ボストン郊外で便利屋をしている孤独な男リー(ケイシー・アフレック)は、兄ジョー(カイル・チャンドラー)の急死をきっかけに故郷マンチェスター・バイ・ザ・シーに戻ってくる。兄の死を悲しむ暇もなく、遺言で16歳になるおいのパトリック(ルーカス・ヘッジズ)の後見人を引き受けた彼は、おいの面倒を見るため故郷の町に留まるうちに、自身が心を閉ざすことになった過去の悲劇と向き合うことになり……。
Pepper
堅苦しいドキュメンタリー映画監督とその妻は、自由奔放な若いカップルと仲良くなったことで、自分たちの生活が少しずつ変化していく。
Mary
Henry and Fay's son Ned sets out to find and kill his father for destroying his mother's life. But his aims are frustrated by the troublesome Susan, whose connection to Henry predates even his arrival in the lives of the Grim family.
Nurse
The relationship of a couple who meet by chance in New York City is put to the test when they encounter a life or death circumstance.
Nursing Home Administrator
50歳のアリスは、まさに人生の充実期を迎えていた。高名な言語学者として敬われ、教鞭をとるニューヨークのコロンビア大学でも、学生たちから絶大な人気を集めていた。夫のジョンは変わらぬ愛情にあふれ、法科大学を卒業した長女のアナと医学院生の長男のトムにも何の不安もなかった。唯一の心配は、ロスで女優を目指す次女のリディアだけだった。ところが、そんなアリスにまさかの運命が降りかかる。物忘れが頻繁に起こるようになって診察を受けた結果、若年性アルツハイマー病だと宣告されたのだ。しかも、子供たちに50%の確率で遺伝をしてしまう家族性なのだ。アリスの家族に突き付けられた苦難…。アリスは気丈に闘うが、今の医学では記憶を失うことは止められない。ある日、アリスはパソコンに自分が残した映像を発見する。かつての自分から自分への“アリスのままで”いるためのメッセージとは──?
Usherette / Sister Hazel
Dr. Hess Green becomes cursed by a mysterious ancient African artifact and is overwhelmed with a newfound thirst for blood. Soon after his transformation he enters into a dangerous romance with Ganja Hightower that questions the very nature of love, addiction, sex, and status.
Hazel
When his mom deposits him at the Red Hook housing project in Brooklyn to spend the summer with the grandfather he’s never met, young Flik may as well have landed on Mars. Fresh from his cushy life in Atlanta, he’s bored and friendless, and his strict grandfather, Enoch, a firebrand preacher, is bent on getting him to accept Jesus Christ as his personal savior. Only Chazz, the feisty girl from church, provides a diversion from the drudgery. As hot summer simmers and Sunday mornings brim with Enoch’s operatic sermons, things turn anything but dull as people’s conflicting agendas collide.
12-Step Receptionist
鬼才ジョナサン・デミ監督がアン・ハサウェイを主演に撮り上げた、リアルな家族のストーリー。姉の結婚式のために帰宅したドラッグ中毒の妹の姿を通じ、家族の心の痛みと見えない絆を描く。