Bruce Edwards
Ellie is a 27-year old whose life is far from where she imagined it to be. Filled with annoying friends, a self-involved boyfriend, and a career that she can’t bring herself to pursue, Ellie feels detached from her life. When she learns that her estranged alcoholic father has died, her world is disrupted and she begins a journey that takes her to a small town in Texas. While dealing with the logistical arrangements of her father’s death Ellie has to confront what happens when the structures and safety nets we build for ourselves come undone.
Desk Clerk (as Norman Jamison Bennett)
작가 트루먼 카포트(1924~84)의 전기영화. 제63회 베니스국제영화제 개막작.
Farmer McDonald
Rhonda, a big-haired bankteller from Brooklyn, encounters Travis, naked, suicidal and about to jump off the Brooklyn Bridge. Mistaking him for her perfect man, she stalks him all the way to Danton, Texas. An alliance, and eventually true friendship, is formed between this extremely odd couple as they embark upon a 'treasure hunt' - with clues provided from beyond the grave.
Judge Cochran
Despite her parents' misgivings, Brianne (Lea Thompson) marries Clay (James Marshall), and the couple soon have a daughter. It's then that Clay begins to show the first signs that he's unhinged. When he sees Brianne innocently talking to a man, Clay shoots him dead. At first, Brianne believes that her love for her husband can prevail. But when authorities threaten to take away custody of her daughter, she learns a horrible truth about her past.
Funeral Director
The story of the widow of Lee Harvey Oswald, the man accused of shooting President Kennedy. Via flashbacks, the story traces the woman's life from her days in Russia, the turmoil following the assassination, raising her family, and coming to grips with the fact that she too may have been a pawn in a grand conspiracy.
Judge
An increasingly obsessed detective chases an escaped rapist across the Southwest and enters into a complicated relationship with one of the victims.
Jim Ramsey
The gory ax-murder of one mousy, suburban Texas housewife by another is nearly as shocking as the excuse offered by the bespectacled defendant's attorney: self-defense. Could it be so?
Judson Lovingood
A profile of the astronauts, crew, and civilians who were involved in the January 28, 1986 flight of the spaceship, Challenger, that resulted in its explosion upon takeoff. The center point of the film is the safety inspections and arguments surrounding the use of the o-rings that ultimately were blamed for the explosion.
Inspired by a Norman Rockwell painting, this 1950s coming of age drama centers on a young man leaving home to attend college, where he will learn the lessons in becoming a man. While his family must deal with a life threatening illness.
Reverend
Hairdresser Nadine Hightower wants to retrieve the risqué photos she once posed for, but when she visits the photographer at his office, he's murdered by an intruder. Nadine talks her estranged husband, Vernon, into going along when she returns to the office, where they stumble across plans for a less than legal construction project. But when Vernon tries to turn the documents into a cash windfall, he and Nadine are pursued by goons with guns.
Wendell Crom
This is the story of Lenell Geter, an engineer who was accused and convicted of armed robbery. Because he had such faith in the system, he thought that he would eventually be released. But he was in jail for 18 months until a lawyer from the NAACP was brought to assist in his case.
Ray Walker
A high school football hero Bo Reinecker tries to piece together the events leading up to murder of his girl friend Lisa Nolen. Claiming to have experienced a total blackout, Bo is ultimately found not guilty of the murder by reason of insanity and placed in an institution for four years. Meanwhile, the dead girl's father, Tom Nolen, and her sister Wynn, bitterly prepare a campaign to put Nolen away in prison for life. Things come to a boil when Bo is released--and Tom and Wynn take "due process" into their own hands.
Farmer
Jewell and Gil are farmers. They seem to be working against the odds, producing no financial surplus. Gil has lost hope of ever becoming prosperous, but Jewell decides to fight for her family.
Sheriff Cal
On the lazy banks of the Mississippi, a young girl is reunited with her time-served but innocent father. But the reunion is tainted with the whereabouts of the stolen loot, and those who come looking for it...
Texan
공상 게임을 즐기는 데이비는 때로 환상과 실제가 하나인 것처럼 행동하여 아버지와 친구들을 당황케 만든다. 어느날 FBI 요원이 살해되는 것을 목격한 데이비는 비밀정보가 담긴 물건을 받게 되고살인자들에 의해 추격을 받게 된다.
Edward Johnson
1964년 휴스턴. 전 우주비행사 게릿(잭 니콜슨)이 교양 있는 귀부인 오로라(셜리 맥클레인)와 16세의 딸 엠마(데브라 윙거)네 옆집에 이사를 온다. 그 후 5년의 세월이 흘러 엠마는 플랩 호튼(제프 다니엘스)과 결혼을 하게 된다. 그러나 플랩을 못마땅하게 생각하는 오로라는 딸의 결혼식에 불참석한다. 엠마는 교사가 된 남편을 따라 아이오와로 이사를 가고, 게릿은 오로라에게 데이트를 신청하나 거절당한다. 한편 엠마는 남편의 바람기로 집을 나와 쇼핑을 하다가 샘 번스(존 리스고우)라는 은행원을 만나 그와 사귀게 된다. 오로라도 또한 전과 달리 게릿과 친해진다.그런데 이 즈음 엠마는 종양 때문에 병원에 입원하게 되는데....
Reverend Hotchkiss
한때 유명한 웨스턴 컨트리 가수였으나 지금은 알콜 중독에 빠져 사는 맥 슬레지(로버트 듀발 분)는 아들과 단 둘이 사는 젊은 미망인 로사 리(테스 하퍼 분)가 운영하는 텍사스의 고속도로 가 작은 모텔에서 깨어난다. 빈털털이에 갈 곳도 없는 슬레지는 모텔에 진 빚을 모텔 일을 해서 갚겠다고 하고, 로사는 맥에게 숙식을 제공하고 시간당 2달러의 임금을 주고 그를 고용한다. 맥은 주위 사람들이 다가오는 것을 주저하고 경계하며 힘겹게 알콜 중독에서 벗어나기 위해 노력하지만 하나 뿐인 딸의 양욕권을 빼앗아 간 전처의 악몽은 쉽게 잊혀지지 않는다. 그러던 중 맥은 따뜻하게 그를 보살펴주는 로사와 결혼에 이르게 되고, 그녀의 아들(알란 허버드 분)에게 친구와도 같은 아버지 역할을 하며 마음의 안정을 찾아간다. 맥을 우상시하는 젊은 뮤지션들의 도움으로 다시 음악을 시작하고 새로운 음반을 녹음까지 마친 맥은 전처가 근처에서 공연을 한다는 소식을 듣고 찾아갔다가 그곳에서 자신의 불행한 딸(엘렌 바킨 분)을 만난 뒤, 아내에게 진심어린 순간에 자신은 행복을 믿은 적이 없다며 다시는 남의 인생을 망치지 않겠다고 맹세한다.
George Butterfield
After winning a beauty contest in Texas, a teenage girl is unprepared for the demands of travel, press conferences and interviews that go with winning the title and participating in a national beauty pageant.
