Chris Beetem

A successful, young writer's first pregnancy is overshadowed by her complicated relationship with reality.

Things spiral out of control in a high school in Manhattan when a terrible accident involving a science experiment injures a kid for life.

Him and her. A husband and a wife staying in a cozy hotel where you can come for just a couple of days with a risk to get stuck forever. It is so easy to get trapped in the daily routine. Indeed, nothing is more permanent than the temporary. Their time is like a flat circle. He has his phone calls and business meetings. She is wrapped in her dreams and doubts. All reactions are predictable, all conversations are learnt by heart. An endless LP record of life keeps playing again and again repeating itself. But a few things can break this tune, like a scratch on the record, a crack on a wine glass, a sudden glance or a meeting with a stranger. And then you know: tomorrow will come soon. Any moment something can go wrong, throw you off course, and force you to make a choice.

Claire is sure of herself, her work and family, until — like a bad dream — her husband disappears, leaving a trail of puzzling secrets that shatter her certainty.

13번째 결혼 기념일날, 댄과 조이스는 세 아이들을 유모에게 맡기고 즐거운 시간을 보내러 외출한다. 사춘기에 접어든 큰 아들 제이콥과 호기심 많은 둘째 샐리, 그리고 귀여운 막내 크리스토퍼는 늘 봐주러 오던 유모 매기를 기다린다. 하지만 매기 대신에 안나라는 이름의 새로운 유모가 집에 오고 밤이 깊어갈수록 아이들은 천천히 안나의 본 모습이 드러나는 것을 목격하게 된다.

Squads of privatized police officers from various corporations, walking the streets of New York and selling protection plans. Make sure your insurances are up to date.

To win the celebrity and self-made wealth he craves, an aimless, twenty-something Manhattan playboy devises a film based on his party-boy, club-going lifestyle, and hires a self-destructive aspiring playwright to ghost the feature script. As the mismatched pair struggles to complete the script and get a handle on their misdirected lives, they reveal the sometimes comedic, sometimes tragic behaviors of 'Generation Y'- a generation taught to believe each was incomparably special and messianically gifted. Though they begin to vie for the affections of the same girl, and their chance at success and happiness threatens to crumble, they ultimately each find their own, unique life truths.

Ned is in the throes of a mid-life crisis. His work as a writer on an outrageous, semi-pornographic TV show is less than satisfying. His fifteen year old son has just told him he is gay and his eleven year old is afraid of, well pretty much everything. When his wife, Jeannie, moves her sick and embittered father from Detroit into their home in NY, it puts added stress on an already strained marriage. And when a sexy female co-worker puts the moves on Ned, the temptation sends him spiraling.

When a lonely ex-New Yorker moves into the home of a rural senior to act as a hospice worker, the two initially couldn't seem to be less alike. However, as time passes, the two find much kinship including a lost child. Slowly the two build a bond and learn about life.