Louise Cockersham
殺人罪に問われた天才ボクサー、ルービン・ハリケーン・カーターは、人種偏見に満ちた裁判で終身刑を宣告される。無罪を主張する彼は獄中で自伝を執筆。その自伝に感銘を受けた少年との出会いを機に、カーターは連邦裁判所で最後の戦いに挑む決意をする。
Mrs. Horton, Michael's Neighbor
ニューヨークのオークションハウスに勤めるごく普通のまじめな青年マイケルは、恋人ジーナにプロポーズする。しかし、彼女は涙ながらに結婚を断る。彼女の父はマフィアの一員なのだ。それでも、必死に説得する彼の熱意にジーナはやっと結婚を承諾する。しかし、案の定二人の前に組織がらみの災難が次々と襲いかかり、結婚までの道のりは決して楽なものではなかった。
Hilde Grove
52年。ハンディを背負い身長わずか96センチの12歳のサイモンと、私生児である親友のジョーはいつも一緒だ。やがてある事件を機に二人は“何か”を探し始める……感動のドラマ。
Wilma
An aspiring actor and his girlfriend handle life's frustrations, while his friend seeks fulfillment with a blonde.
Sarah Davis
John Webb is recently widowed and living alone on the farm he and his brother used to share. He rarely sees his daughters, Jacqueline and Grace Ann, and his only company is Grey, the farm's longtime overseer. John's solitude is interrupted by his nephews, Carl and Gus Jr., who have been approached about drilling for oil on the farm. Tensions rise as John clashes with his opportunistic family.
Aunt Katie
Older Woman
Mickey, a free-spirited New York cabbie, and Francis, a materialistic Wall Street stockbroker, are extremely competitive and confused about women as a result of their father's influence. Though they disagree about everything, they have one thing in common: Mickey's ex-fiance Heather is Francis's secret love. Though both brothers have beautiful wives, Heather triggers their longtime sibling rivalry
Mary Benton
Former Marine Louanne Johnson lands a gig teaching in a pilot program for bright but underachieving teens at a notorious inner-city high school. After having a terrible first day, she decides she must throw decorum to the wind. When Johnson returns to the classroom, she does so armed with a no-nonsense attitude informed by her military training and a fearless determination to better the lives of her students -- no matter what the cost.
Mary Hemings
His wife having recently died, Thomas Jefferson accepts the post of United States ambassador to pre-revolutionary France, though he finds it difficult to adjust to life in a country where the aristocracy subjugates an increasingly restless peasantry. In Paris, he becomes smitten with cultured artist Maria Cosway, but, when his daughter visits from Virginia accompanied by her attractive slave, Sally Hemings, Jefferson's attentions are diverted.
Judge
ニューヨーク、クイーンズ区のパトロール警官、チャーリ ー・ラングは、下町の人気者である。仕事熱心で気の優しい彼は、住民たちに親しまれている平凡な生活に満足していた。イヴォンヌ・ビアジは下町のコーヒーショップで働く、心根のいいウエイトレス。だが、別居中の夫エディの不始末を被って破産宣告を受けている身であった。
ある日、イヴォンヌの店に立ち寄ったチャーリーは、チップの持ち合わせがなく、「持っていた宝くじが当たったら、賞金の半分を君にあげる」と約束する。なんと、そのくじが400万ドルという大金に当たった。200万ドルの贈り物に、ことのほか喜ぶイヴォンヌ。おとぎ話のような逸話に、マスコミがさっそく飛びついたのだった…。
Elderly Woman
才人スパイク・リー監督が、自身も尊敬する、近代アメリカきっての偉大な思想家であり、キング牧師と並ぶ黒人解放運動のリーダー、マルコムXの生涯を描いた伝記的作品。物語は、マルコムがチンピラだった頃から始まる。若くして窃盗罪で服役し、刑務所の中でイスラム教に改宗、出所ののち彼は、イライジャ・ムハマットの下でブラック・モスレムきっての白人を敵対視する煽動家となる。やがて組織に疑問を感じ、多人種共存の道を探ってメッカを巡礼、そしてあらゆる人種の真の友愛を悟って帰国。そしてアメリカ黒人の解放運動を今までになかった新しい理念によって大きく展開しようとした矢先の1965年2月21日、ハーレムのオーデュボン・ボールルームでの講演中に13発の銃弾を浴びて射殺されるまでの、壮絶な軌跡を克明に追う。原作は、マルコムXが著わし「ROOTS/ルーツ」のアレックス・ヘイリーがまとめた『マルコムX自伝』。D・ワシントンのパワフルな芝居とテンポの良い演出が、この長尺を一気に見せる。
Head Nurse
Josh meets a young woman who shortly afterwards collapses and is rushed to hospital in an ambulance. He follows after her only to find that there is no record her being admitted, and he soon learns that her roommate also vanished after being picked up by the same ambulance. Convinced of a conspiracy, Josh proceeds to investigate, despite the discouragement of the police.
Alma-May
A British art expert leaves New York to buy a long-lost Renoir from a Georgia eccentric.
2nd Judge
Apprentice lawyer Robin Weathers turns a civil suit into a headline grabbing charade. He must reexamine his scruples after his shenanigans win him a promotion in his firm, and he must now defend a college professor who is appearantly guilty of murder.
Corine
Two 12-year-olds, the products of Upper West Side broken homes, struggle to make sense of their parents lives and their own adolescent feelings.
Waltereen
Oliver Barrett IV is emotionally devastated by the death of his wife Jenny, and, while he tries to lose himself in his work as a lawyer, the long hours don't ease his pain, especially when he finds that his leftist views conflict with those of the senior partners at the firm. Eventually, Oliver's inconsolable grief begins to alienate those around him, until he finds new love with Marcie Bonwit, the wealthy and beautiful heiress to the Bonwit Teller fortune. Despite his affection for her, Oliver finds it difficult to leave the memory of Jenny behind, which causes major problems in their relationship.
Mrs. Waters
Three sisters start out singing in their church choir in Harlem in the late 1950s and become a successful girl group in the 1960s.
Lucy
Warren Maxwell, the owner of a run-down plantation, pressures his son, Hammond, to marry and produce an heir to inherit the plantation. Hammond settles on his own cousin, Blanche, but purchases a sex slave when he returns from the honeymoon. Meanwhile, Warren buys a new Mandingo slave named Mede to breed and to earn money as a prize-fighter.
Mrs. Jenkins
白昼のニューヨーク。ペラム駅発123号列車が地下路線の途中で武装集団にハイジャックされた。犯人4人、人質18人。地下鉄公安局のガーバー警部補と犯人たちの虚々実々の駆け引きが始まった・・・。
Hospital Receptionist
New York City English professor Axel Freed outwardly seems like an upstanding citizen. But privately Freed is in the clutches of a severe gambling addiction that threatens to destroy him.
Lena
In February, 1962, as the civil rights movement reaches Bayonne, Louisiana, a New York journalist arrives to interview Jane Pittman, who has just turned 110. She tells him her story dating back to her earliest memories before slavery ended. In between the chapters of her life, the present-day struggles of Blacks in Bayonne, urged on by Jimmy, are dramatized.