Bruce Edwards
Após anos sem saber de seu pai, Ellie recebe uma ligação para lhe informar que ele se encontra gravemente doente. Mesmo com todo o rancor por seus atos passados, Ellie decide viajar para o Texas, onde seu pai agora vive.
Desk Clerk (as Norman Jamison Bennett)
O escritor Truman Capote (Toby Jones) realiza uma pesquisa para escrever seu 1º livro não-ficcional, "A Sangue Frio", baseado no assassinato de 4 pessoas ocorrido numa pequena cidade do Kansas. Para tanto ele mantém contato com os assassinos Perry Smith (Daniel Craig) e Dick Hickock (Lee Pace), que estão presos à espera de julgamento.
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
Gil Ivy e sua mulher Jewell são fazendeiros. O marido já perdeu a esperança de se tornar próspero, mas sua mulher decide lutar pela família.
Sheriff Cal
Depois de cumprir pena por um roubo que não cometeu, tudo o que Billy quer fazer é se reconectar com sua filha. No entanto, algumas pontas soltas, como o paradeiro do tesouro roubado, não vai deixá-lo em paz.
Texan
Davey Osborne (Henry Thomas) é um jovem muito criativo que adora jogos de faz-de-conta e que, frequentemente, recruta seu amigo imaginário, o superespião Jack Flack (Dabney Coleman), para suas brincadeiras. Por conta disso, não é à toa que ninguém acredita nele quando o garoto jura ter testemunhado a morte de um agente do FBI. Nem seu próprio pai, o Coronel Hal Osborne (também vivido por Coleman), põe fé na história do menino. Fato é que o agente morreu bem na frente de Davey e deixou para ele um cartucho de videogame chamado Cloak & Dagger. O jogo esconde os planos de um grupo de espiões internacionais e agora, ele corre risco de morte, embarcando em uma aventura de verdade, com fugas de tirar o fôlego, balas reais e muita ação. Será que Jack Flack poderá ajudá-lo?
Edward Johnson
Aurora (Shirley MacLaine), uma viúva, e Emma (Debra Winger), sua filha, apesar de se amarem tem uma relação conflituosa. Entretanto, tudo muda quando a filha descobre que está com câncer e, ao mesmo tempo, toma consciência de que foi traída por Flap (Jeff Daniels), seu marido. Simultaneamente sua mãe após anos passa a se interessar por Garrett Breedlove (Jack Nicholson), um ex astronauta vizinho e paquerador.
Reverend Hotchkiss
Mac Sledge (Robert Duvall) é um cantor de músicas country que guarda amargas recordações de sua vida. Com sua carreira em declínio, ele se entrega de vez à bebida. Até que, num hotel do Texas, conhece Rosa Lee (Tess Harper), uma viúva com um filho de 10 anos. Logo Rosa e Mac iniciam um relacionamento, que o faz recuperar a alegria de viver.
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.