Mrs. Pinkerton
Grace King Bichon (Julia Roberts) vive em uma pequena cidade, onde gerencia o estábulo de seu pai, Wyly (Robert Duvall). Após descobrir que Eddie (Dennis Quaid), seu marido, a trocou por outra mulher ela resolve ficar um tempo na casa da irmã, Emma Rae (Kyra Sedgwick). Grace aproveita o período para repensar a própria vida e questionar a autoridade de todos à sua volta, especialmente seu pai.
Mrs. Higgins
Stu e Lidia querem construir uma casa de brinquedo, num velho carvalho. O pai, Stephen, recém-chegado do Vietnã, luta para reconstruir sua vida. A casa e uma antiga rixa com os agressivos filhos do vizinho mudarão o destino da família.
Eudora
The story of Hazel Brannon Smith, a Southern newspaper publisher who risked the loss of everything she loved by defying the bigotry of her neighbors in the 1950s.
Judge Camille Kelley
A 1940s Tennesee welfare worker learns that Georgia Tann, the charismatic head of a local adoption agency, is actually running a black-market baby ring behind the Tennesee Childrens Home Society.
Mrs. Englethrope
In 1942, the Japanese occupied the island of Singapore. During the take-over, not only military soldiers were taken prisoner, but also innocent civilians, particularly women and children. This is the story of a group of women who band together to face brutal treatment, harsh conditions, and ruthless captors to survive their internment.
Grandma
Based on the true story of an Alabama woman who was convicted of killing her first husband and attempting to poison her daughter. Out on bail, she flees in order to start a new life with two new identities.
Secretary
After a long time in the army, an Afro-American soldier returns to his hometown, where, years ago, his brother was executed for the rape and murder of two white girls. The commando believes his brother to have been innocent and seeks a proof for that, but there are some people in the town who will stop at nothing to hide the secrets of their past...
Mrs. Spoon
A false preacher ingratiates himself with a dead man's family to find where he hid the money from a robbery.
Grandma
Baseado em fatos reais, este filme mostra com emoção a historia verídica de Betty Mahmoody, relata ao escritor William Hoffer. Passada nos Estados Unidos, a historia desta fita irá contar o trágico casamento de Betty com um médico iraniano que vive há vinte anos na América. Numa viagem de férias à sua terra natal, junto com a esposa e a filha, o médico revela sua verdadeira personalidade... Convertido ao islanismo ele fará de sua esposa uma prisioneira que manterá sob o seu poder. A luta e a coragem desta mulher surpriendente transformam esta historia num envolvente relato com miutos momentos de suspense e apreensão.
Miss Gussie
In the early 20th century, an independent lady from up North causes a scandal when she decides to wed an older local general-store owner just three weeks after he's been widowed.
Sister Gertrude
Four male friends are reunited after not being in contact with each other for several years. However, the meeting place is Purgatory, the afterlife state of limbo between heaven and hell. In Purgatory, these friends reflect on their pasts while they were living. They especially focus on their years in Catholic School and their coming of age. This film talks a lot about sexual issues. One of the characters is an 18-year old sent to Vietnam who dies without ever losing his virginity and there is a middle-aged, homosexual alcoholic playwright who has still has problems dealing with his identity.
Secretary
A highly respected and revered baseball coach has been accused by a female student of conducting some kind of research that borders on sexual molestation. When her parents decide to report him to the authorities. They are held in contempt, because the community can't believe that this wonderful man could do the things that they are accusing him of.
Mrs. Eleanor Mapes
When two brothers, Josh and Mike, go to a small southern town for a vacation, they find most of the residents either dead or missing. When Mike himself goes missing, Josh teams up with the local sheriff and an attractive school teacher to find him until Josh discovers that the whole town and most of it's people have been infected by a form of toxic waste, and they have all turned into toxic vampires whom prowl the streets at night for human blood!
The lord and lady of a capacious manor are killed, and the lord's ghost seems to have returned to knock off the staff one by one, causing Inspector Winship and Dr. Tart to investigate the wacky house and its inhabitants.
Ellen Stanton
This is the story of the doctor whose farm John Wilkes Booth went to after assassinating Abraham Lincoln
Landlady
Um sulista - jovem, pobre, ambicioso, mas sem instrução - resolve se tornar algo no mundo. Ele decide que a melhor maneira de fazer isso é se transformar num pregador e começar a sua própria igreja.
Hazel Motes, um veterano de guerra do exército dos Estados Unidos, pode não ser um cristão fervoroso, mas observando o estado deplorável das igrejas da sua terra, vendo às fraudes e golpes ridículos pelas ruas e se inspirando em suas memórias, resolve assumir, após uma recusa inicialmente feroz, o papel de Pregador Itinerante, principalmente quando um motorista de táxi insiste que ele parece um verdadeiro Pregador por causa de seu novo chapéu. Ele começa sua própria nova Igreja da Verdade, sem um Jesus crucificado, e seu primeiro discípulo vêm a ser um simplório garoto de 18 anos com um "Dom Profético".
