Rex Franklin
Ed Franklin, a young man pursuing his dreams in Hollywood, returns home to Fort Worth, Texas at Christmas time to find his family in turmoil. His parents' marriage is crumbling and his relationship with his two brothers is rocky at best. The discovery that his beloved Granny has been placed in a nursing home after a stroke left her mentally disabled pushes Ed over the edge. He decides to come to his unhappy Granny's rescue, abducting her from the home against his family's orders. Ed's father Rex and brothers, Steve and Davy, set out after Ed and Granny, and a cross-country pursuit begins.
Deputy
Dorian and Angus chase down their womanizing stepfather with a helicopter, frightening him to death. In his effort to cover their tracks, Dorian begins investigating his stepfather's mistress, Sally. She works at a fast-food drive-through, she's pregnant and Dorian quickly falls in love with her. Unfortunately, his scheming mother wants Sally dead. And Sally isn't sure she wants Dorian to be her child's father and also his brother.
Doctor Faulkner
아카데미 수상작 "애정의 조건"이 속편으로 돌아왔다. 오로라(셜리 매클레인)는 딸을 병으로 잃은 뒤 남은 가족을 잘 지키려 노력하지만, 세대가 바뀌어도 인생은 여전히 폭풍 같기만 하다. 손자 한 명은 감옥에 가고, 손녀 한 명은 반항적이고, 다른 손자는 간신히 빈곤만을 면하고 있다. 한편 골치를 앓던 오로라는 상담가 제리(빌 팩스턴)에게 점점 마음을 여는데…
Uncle Albert
Still bitter toward his stepfather, a man reunites with his mother and sister following a long estrangement.
Officer Brock
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.
Calvin
조너스 나이팅게일(Jonas Nightingale: 스티브 마틴 분)은 '자비의 천사들'이라는 성가단과 함께 전미를 순회하며 대규모 신앙부흥회를 개최, 분위기에 젖은 신도들에게 헌금명목으로 돈을 갈취해내는 사이비 목사. 그런 조너스 일행이 어느날 이동차량의 고장으로 인해 캔사스의 한 마을에 여정을 풀게 되고, 머무는 동안 천막부흥회를 열고자 마을 보안관 윌(Will: 라이엄 니슨)을 방문한다. 오랜 가뭄으로 인한 흉작과 30%를 육박하는 실업률 등 주민들의 극심한 생활고를 이유로 행사 개최를 반대하는 보안관. 그러나 종교 박해 운운하는 조너스의 위협에 결국 허가증을 발부하고 조너스 일행은 매끄러운 설교와 감동적인 갓스펠 송이 담긴 로드쇼를 펼치는데...
Johnny Gorman
Floyd, the owner of a bar on the Texas coast, has been depressed for a year after his wife disappeared in a swimming accident. He lives with his senile father-in-law "The General" and is helped by Jimmy, a former asylum inmate, and the good-natured Louise. The bar is rapidly losing money and Charlie wants to buy it cheaply before it becomes publicly known that a nearby bridge is to be built. Louise offers her savings to go into partnership with Floyd, but Floyd decides to sell when he is forced to pay his back taxes.
Clement
An aging motor-cross racer, already having lost his wife and daughter to his footlooseness and now about to have his semi-tractor cab repossessed, vows to make one last go of it on his bike in the race of his career.
