Mark Walters

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.

Dorian e Angus perseguem o padrasto mulherengo em um helicóptero, assustando-o terrivelmente. Na tentativa de cobrir os rastros, Dorian começa a investigar a amante do padrasto, Sally, que trabalha em um restaurante de fast-food e está grávida. Dorian se apaixona pela moça, mas sua mãe manipuladora quer Sally morta. E a jovem não tem certeza se quer Dorian como pai ou irmão da criança.

Continuing the story of Aurora Greenway in her latter years. After the death of her daughter, Aurora struggled to keep her family together, but has one grandson in jail, a rebellious granddaughter, and another grandson living just above the poverty line.

Still bitter toward his stepfather, a man reunites with his mother and sister following a long estrangement.

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.

Jonas Nightengale (Steve Martin) é um falso pregador de fé que usa todos seus truques com a Bíblia na mão de forma a atrair as pessoas para seus cultos. Ele, a namorada Jane (Debra Winger) e sua equipe rodam os Estados Unidos parando nas cidades para montar seu "espetáculo". Quando um dos caminhões quebra em uma pequena cidade, Jonas aceita o desafio de fazer dinheiro nela. Desta forma, passa a seduzir a garçonete Marva (Lolita Davidovitch) e faz com que Jane conquiste Will Braverman (Liam Neeson), o xerife local, que está disposto a provar que Jonas é na verdade uma fraude.

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.

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.