Christine Leiter

'Heights' follows five characters over 24 hours on a fall day in New York City. Isabel, a photographer, is having second thoughts about her upcoming marriage to Jonathan, a lawyer. On the same day, Isabel's mother Diana learns that her husband has a new lover and begins to re-think her life choices and her open marriage. Diana and Isabel's paths cross with Alec, a young actor, and with Peter, a journalist. As the interrelated stories proceed, the connections between the lives of the five characters begin to reveal themselves and their stories unravel. Isabel, Jonathan, Diana, Alec, and Peter must choose what kind of lives they will lead before the sun comes up on the next day.

In 1965, a young woman with dreams of becoming a writer has a son at the age of 15 and struggles to make things work with the drug-addicted father.

To be or not to be, etc.

1971年の傑作黒人映画『黒いジャガー』のリメイク。サミュエル・L．ジャクソン演じる刑事ジョン・シャフトが、凶悪犯に立ち向かう痛快アクション。監督は西のスパイク・リーこと黒い鬼才ジョン・シングルトン！