Peter Van Norden

Three stories examining what it means to live, find connection, deal with trauma, and do more than just exist, in the rural landscape of small mining town in West Virginia.

A glam rock dilettante's life takes a dramatic turn when his ex unexpectedly drops their 11-year-old son off for the week.

Battling back from a debilitating knee injury and struggling with his own inner demons, Rip, a professional baseball player nearing the end of his career, reluctantly revisits his long-forgotten hometown to finally face his estranged, dying father. Through a journey of self-discovery, redemption, and forgiveness, Rip learns that life isn't always played between the chalk lines of the baseball diamond.

Gigli is ordered to kidnap the psychologically challenged younger brother of a powerful federal prosecutor. When plans go awry, Gigli's boss sends in Ricki, a gorgeous free-spirited female gangster who has her own set of orders to assist with the kidnapping. But Gigli begins falling for the decidedly unavailable Ricki, which could be a hazard to his occupation.

The unmarried daughter of a Texas rancher gives birth to an unwanted child. She puts the child up for adoption and moves away from home. Without her knowledge, her father took the boy and raised him. Twelve years later, she is now a successful family-court judge in L.A. Over the years, she has avoided her father and knows nothing of the child. That all changes when he decides that is time she knew her own child and heads for L.A.

Joey Buttafuoco's story, of how a sexy, possessive young girl destroyed his life by telling her friends the two are lovers, and then shooting his wife.

招待されたホワイトハウスの晩餐会をめちゃくちゃにしてしまったドレビン刑事だが、LAに戻ると、燃料問題の権威であるマインハイマー博士の研究所で爆破事件が発生。それは新しい全米エネルギー政策が発表される直前のタイミングだった。捜査に乗り出したドレビンは、研究所で広報部長をしていた元恋人ジェーンと再会。しかし彼女にはハプスバーグという恋人がいた。実はハプスバーグは事件の黒幕で、次の計画を進めていた。

Jimmie Rainwood was minding his own business when two corrupt police officers (getting an address wrong) burst into his house, expecting to find a major drug dealer. Rainwood is shot, and the officers frame him as a drug dealer. Rainwood is convicted of drug dealing, based on the perjured evidence of a police informant. Thrown into a seedy jail, fighting to prove his innocence is diffucult when he has to deal with the realities of prison life, where everyone claims they were framed.

場末の酒場で起きた複数の男によるレイプ事件。勝ち目がないと言われながらも、裁判を引き受けた女性検事補は調査を開始するが、被害者の女性は酒に酔っており、被告側の男たちは和姦を主張していた。やがて原告がマリファナを服用していた事が発覚、裁判は絶対不利となっていく。

Leda Beth Vincent lives in the small town of Shiloh and works as a cocktail waitress there. She is not too well thought of as she is nothing of a blushing virgin. But she is far from a whore and brings up her daughter Julie, a high school student, as a loving responsible mother. So, when she becomes aware that Julie's very popular history teacher, Mr Baker, spreads antisemitic ideas among his pupils, Leda Beth decides to ask Mr Baker for an explanation. But she comes up against a wall. Nobody in town - Julie less than all others - wants to support her and it looks as if she will have to bring the Board of Education to court. The trouble is that a school dropout and a tramp of her kind does not count for much compared to the holders of knowledge and of morality.

In this short film, our unemployed hero finds that getting that great job depends a lot on whom you choose to dance with at Ray's Male Heterosexual Dance Hall.

A killer of Detroit clergy confesses to a priest, who turns sleuth because he cannot tell the police.

A small-town loser determines to have one more shot at the big time by winning a football game.

ダメな新入生を立派な警官に育てることに一所懸命なラサール校長のもとに、弟のラサール署長から電話がかかった。弟のラサールは、全米で最悪の犯罪地区の署長をしている。彼のため、そして、その地区の凶悪な暴走族を一網打尽にするために、校長は、ポリスアカデミーの卒業生の中から特に優秀な警官を選抜する。そこで選ばれたのが、マホニー、怪力超人ハイタワー、拳銃狂タックルベリー、物まね狂、通称人間効果音ラーヴェル、内気なフックス、脱ダメ亭主のダグラスの6人だった。

Beckman driving a '55 Thunderbird on Route 66 hooks up with Johnny after hoodlum Hoot and his gang shoot his car. Continuous conflicts between Hoot and Beckman make Beckman and Johnny determant to teach him a lesson.

Jamie Roberts is a rock star living the highlife when he falls for an intellectual child psychologist who only has ears for classical music. Opposites attract, but his jealous ex-girlfriend isn't ready to give up so easily.

A young couple from Milwaukee moves into the fabled, high-society Malibu beach community and becomes involved with the lives of the various people living in the community.

A moving portrait of a shy, aspiring young opera singer who has an amazing voice but lacks the courage to sing at he frequent auditions which he forces himself to attend.

An American jockey rides his horse in a London race but is accused of throwing it, until he finds out he was framed by a gambler and clears his name in this filmed stage production from Goodspeed Opera House.

The girlfriends of softball players decide to form their own team as a way of avenging their neglect.