Carolyn Coates

An unwed teen is fighting a major court battle to recover her infant daughter from adoptive parents.

A school truant officer uncovers a young boy's attempt to fake his residential address and subsequently befriends the kid and his mother.

Renowned actress Joan Crawford, at the height of her career, adopts two orphans — Christina and Christopher — to fill the lonely gap in her personal life. However, as her professional and romantic relationships sour, Joan's already callous and abusive behavior towards Christina intensifies. Christina leaves home to pursue an acting path of her own, only to find her mother's presence still overshadowing her.

1930年、ロサンジェルスのハイウェイ沿いにあるガソリンスタンドの安食堂。ここにひとりの流れ者がやって来る。食堂の女房の体に魅せられた男は、そこで働くことにした。やがて二人は情事を重ねるが食堂の主人はまったく気づかない。そして二人はついに、恐ろしい計画を実行に移すのだが…。

A group of young delinquents well on the road to careers in crime, are given a shock course in prison life. Brought face to face with hardened criminals many serving life sentences for rape and murder, they are suddenly confronted with the harsh realities of a top-security U.S. Penitentiary.

Abe Snopes (Tommy Lee Jones) is a Southern tenant farmer whose unrelenting and violent nature proves to be his undoing in William Faulkner's Barn Burning. Snopes sets his employer's barn on fire when he thinks he's been treated unfairly. His son, Sarty, is horrified. Snope escapes justice for lack of proof, but he and his family are told to move on. No sooner do they move than Snopes is offended by his new rich employer. Torn between trying to win his father's acceptance and his aversion to what his father will do, Sarty must make a decision and act quickly. Adpated by Academy Award winning screenwriter Horton Foote, Faulkner's complex world of class divisions and hostile family relationships comes to life through a boy's attempt to liberate himself from hatred and poverty.

Middle-aged widow Beatrice Hunsdorfer and her daughters Ruth and Matilda are struggling to survive in a society they barely understand. Beatrice dreams of opening an elegant tea room but does not have the wherewithal to achieve her lofty goal. Epileptic Ruth is a rebellious adolescent, while shy but highly intelligent and idealistic Matilda seeks solace in her pets and school projects, including one designed to show how small amounts of radium affect marigolds.

賭けビリヤードのプロ、エディは、ミネソタ・ファッツと呼ばれる男に勝負をいどんだ。優勢に進んでいた試合も、エディが油断して酒を飲んだとたん逆転してしまう。その勝負で全ての財産を失ったエディは、次第に生活がすさんでいく。だが、愛する女性に自殺されたとき、彼は再びファッツに挑むのだった……。ひとりのハスラーを主人公に、人生の挫折と苦渋を描く。