Patricia Smith

A Christmas anthology special presented by Kevin Abstract and goshpixie (sponsored by Enzo the Magazine).

부인과 두 아이를 가장 샘(Sam Baily: 존 트라볼타 분)은 자신의 직장인 자연사 박물관 예산이 삭감되자 강제로 정리 해고를 당한다. 자신이 실업자가 됐음을 부인에게 알리지도 못하고 아침마다 출근하는 척하는 샘. 아이들 교육비 걱정에, 집세 걱정에, 절박해진 샘은 박물관 원장의 인정에 한번만 더 호소하려는 생각에서 총과 폭약을 들고 박물관에 찾아간다. 박물관엔 원장을 인터뷰하기 위해, 방송기자 맥스(Max Brackett: 더스틴 호프만 분)와 선생님을 따라온 어린이들이 견학와 있었다. 맥스 또한 한 때 예리한 감각으로 촉망받는 방송기자였지만, 순간의 실수 때문에 캘리포니아의 소도시로 발령난 일종의 좌천당한 기자로 호시탐탐 재기의 기회를 노리고 있다. 박물관 원장은 샘을 무시하기만 하고 복직에 대해선 재고의 여지도 보이지 않는다. 샘은 원장을 위협하려는 목적에서 우발적으로 총을 쏘는데 재수없게 전동료 클리프가 지나가다 총에 맞는다. 한발의 총성과 몰려든 기자들, 그리고 샘이 예상치못한 박물관에 견학온 어린이들로 샘은 순식간에 흉악무도한 인질범이 되버린다. 샘은 일자리를 얻기위해 단지 겁만 주려했던 것뿐인데, 이제 샘은 어떻게 될 것인가.

Mimi, a free spirited girl out shopping, is given a mysterious box by a dying man, who instructs her not to give it to his killers. While being chased by the thugs who killed him, she meets Howard, an uptight dental student, who enlists his private detective uncle to help them find out the truth about the box.

A strikingly beautiful and wealthy woman is hit by a truck and is all smashed up and nearly killed. At nearly the same time, a very plain looking lower middle class woman simply faints and suffers brain death. The beautiful womans brain is fine, so, doctors merely transplant her brain into plain Jane. Problems ensue when plain Janes husband continues to believe she is still his wife. She has no memory of him, and goes to live with the beautiful womans husband. She doesn't mix well with her new socialite friends and family. Mirrors are emotional battlefields as well.

Ellen Burstyn stars as Joan Walker, a mother whose college student son vanishes while traveling from Canada to Colorado. When police fail to investigate, Walker takes matters into her own hands. She and her ex-husband begin a search, but when their son's van is found in Maine brandishing stolen plates, they fear the worst. Now, it's up to a private detective to uncover the chilling truth in this absorbing drama based on a true story.

Horror film director must plot to steal the negative of his film in order to save it from being destroyed in an insurance scam cooked up by his sleazy producers.

Kay Dillon, a successful modeling agent, meets the young and handsome ranch hand Tyler Burnett in Nevada. She can't help but notice his incredible good looks and invites him to move to New York and start working for her as a male model. Burnett accepts the invitation and goes to New York to start his modeling career. But Tyler longs for more in life: a woman to love and his own ranch. Can he remain the biggest male model in the industry, and still get his heart's desires? Is Kay the woman to give all that to him?

Who Will Love My Children? is a 1983 American made-for-television biographical film based on the life of Lucile Fray. Lucile Fray was diagnosed with cancer in 1952 and wanted to find suitable homes for her ten children, since she felt her husband could not properly care for them. Prior to her death, she succeeded. The film was directed by John Erman, written by Michael Bortman, and starred Ann-Margret in her first television film. It was originally broadcast on American Broadcasting Company. The same evening as its original broadcast, February 14, 1983, the children of Lucile Fray appeared on That's Incredible!, an ABC program.

The trials and tribulations of David O. Selznick as he attempts to find an actress to play the role of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939).

A rebellious 17-year-old girl ignores parental advice and joins her friends as a beach-bound regular on the local hitchhiking circuit, being picked up, ultimately, by a homicidal maniac.

The story of three returning World War II veterans, and how they try to cope with returning to civilian life.

A housewife, increasingly disenchanted with her homemaker role, looks for new meaning in her life and organizes a discussion group, changing the lives of her six closest friends.

When she was raped, Ellen thought it was the worst thing to ever happen to her. What was worse, was the treatment by the hospital staff, police and the court system, when she reported it, and the man was caught.

A suburban wife begins to resent the pressures she sees society putting on her as a wife and mother, and leaves her family to find the meaning of her life.

The story of Ace Eli Walford, a 1920s stunt flyer who barnstorms around the country, taking his eleven-year-old son Rodger with him as he goes from town to town. The place is rural Kansas, and the time is midsummer in the early nineteen-twenties, not long after World War I. Eli (Cliff Robertson), a barn storming pilot who has the emotional make-up of an 11-year-old, and Rodger (Eric Shea), his 11-year-old son who possesses the wisdom of the ancients, set off to see the world, which means flying all the way to San Willow. To Eli, San Willow seems to be as fabled as Xanadu and quite as remote. In essence, "Ace Eli and Rodger of the Skies" is about the adventures of Rodger and Eli getting from nowhere to nowhere. Eli, a killer with the ladies at first, always leaves them unsatisfied. He seems to have a sex problem. Rodger spends a lot of his time getting his dad out of scrapes. He also drinks, smokes and goes to sleep at night crying for his deceased mom.

의류 사업가인 해리 스토너(잭 레먼)는 새 상품 개발과 방직공장 운영 등으로 자금 압박에 시달린다. 겉으로 평온한 듯 보이는 중산층의 중년 남자인 그는 부인과 딸로부터 심리적인 연대감을 맺지 못한 채 고립되어 있다. 또한 2차 대전 때 전우들은 사망했는데 자신만 살아남았다는 죄의식과 그동안 살아온 삶에 대한 자책으로 가득하다. 그럼에도 불구하고 해리는 사업 유지를 위해 보험금을 타기 위해 방화를 모의하고, 거래처에서 원하는 창녀 마고에게 접대를 해줄 것을 부탁한다. 하지만 거래처 사람은 심장마비를 일으켜 쓰러지고, 해리는 과거 전쟁의 기억과 숨 막히는 현실 속에서 괴로워한다. 아내에게 전화를 걸어 추억을 더듬어 보지만 아내는 냉담할 뿐, 아무도 그의 심정을 헤아려 주지 않는다. 집으로 돌아가던 해리는 우연히 만난 마이라와 함께 해변으로 가게 되고, 음악과 야구를 추억하며 한순간 즐거워한다. 하지만 해리는 스스로가 동물원 우리라고 생각하는 현실로 다시 돌아간다. 가혹한 삶을 위해 해리는 방화범을 고용하여 자신의 공장에 불을 내 보험금을 타내려는 범죄 계획까지 모의한다. 방화광에게 은밀히 착수금을 건넨 후 해리는 ‘멸종 위기에 놓여 있는 시베리아 호랑이를 살리자’는 서명운동에 사인을 한다. 하지만 그에게 ‘호랑이를 구하자’는 구호는 먼 이상으로만 느껴진다.

A runaway truck containing the corpse of a slain gang leader rolls into a California nightclub owned by Johnny Cain, a hard bitten former free-lance adventurer. The gang threatens to kill Johnny, unless he solves the murder. The CIA also investigates - because it turns out that the slaying was part of a long-range Communist plan to take over the crime syndicate. Cain's search for clues leads him into a maze of beautiful girls, mysterious Oriental statues and murderous spies.

Arnold Barker starts every day by going out on his porch to pick up the milk and the newspaper but on this day he brings in something different — an invisible alien baby who's been left on his doorstep!

Five office friends meet up for a night on the town to celebrate the forthcoming marriage of one of them. As the night wears on and the drink starts to tell, they become more confidential in expressing their concerns and hopes.

세인트 루이스에서 우편항공기를 조종하던 찰스는 대서양 횡단에 도전하기로 결심한다. 그의 무모한 도전은 재력가들을 사로잡고, 후원으로 마련한 비행기로 이륙에 성공한다. 그러나 기류 이상으로 방향을 잃고, 나침반도 고장 나 그는 오직 별에 의존할 수밖에 없다. 동 틀 무렵, 졸음 속에서 저 멀리 불빛이 보이기 시작한다. 찰스 린드버그가 1927년 대서양을 횡단한 실제 모험을 영화화했다. 개봉 시에는 크게 주목 받지 못했으나, 한 사나이의 고독한 도전 정신과 강인한 의지를 잘 표현한 명작으로 재평가 받고 있다. 원제는 린드버그가 조종했던 비행기의 이름이다.