Leo Szilard
Durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, no remoto deserto do Novo México, o Projeto Manhattan está se materializando: a bomba atômica está sendo construída. Paul Newman vive o General Leslie Groves, o militar que comanda o poderoso projeto que vai produzir duas armas: "Fat Man" (Homem Gordo) e "Little Boy" (Garoto). Dwight Schultz é J. Robert Oppenheimer, o brilhante cientista tentando tornar a impressionante missão uma realidade. Bonnie Bedelia, John Cusack, Laura Dern e Natasha Richardson co-estrelam este filme, que recria um dos capítulos mais marcantes da nossa história, aquele que criou uma nuvem em forma de cogumelo, mudando o mundo para sempre.
John
A story of the famous pianist and entertainer, Liberace.
Dr. Austin
A family begins to fall apart when their eldest daughter is diagnosed with schizophrenia.
Reb Shulem
Jacek, who is Jewish, miraculously manages to survive World War II in Nazi-occupied Poland. As a subplot to Jacek's story, which also involves a love affair with Haling ( Kyra Sedgwick ) and German soldiers' repeated attempts to kill him, is a tale of how young kids in the Warsaw ghetto devise their own method of fighting oppression.
Theo Grant
Homem sofre acidente de carro e tem parte de seu rosto disfigurado. Passa por diversas cirurgias plásticas e, ainda sem recordar seu passado, retoma sua vida ao lado de uma enfermeira. Um policial acredita que ele é reponsável pelo assassinato de sua familia anos antes.
Fischel Shpunt
A dramatic re-enactment of the Warsaw Ghetto Jewish uprising in April 1943 were 650 armed members of the Jewish Fighting Organization of Poland held off a 3,000 strong Nazi force in which only a handful of Jews survived. Tom Conti plays Dolek Berson, a Jewish smuggler who joins the resistance movement and is aided on the Aryan side of the wall by a former teacher named Regina Kowalski played by Rachel Roberts in her final role.
Dr. Lorber
Um pouco antes da Primeira Guerra Mundial John Reed (Warren Beatty), um jornalista americano, conhece Louise Bryant (Diane Keaton), uma mulher casada, que larga o marido para ficar com Reed e se torna uma importante feminista. Eles se envolvem em disputas políticas e trabalhistas nos Estados Unidos, e vão para a Rússia a tempo de participarem da Revolução de outubro de 1917, quando os comunistas assumiram o poder. Este acontecimento inspira o casal, que volta aos Estados Unidos esperando liderar uma revolução semelhante.
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.
Painter
Police in Boston search for a mad bomber trying to extort money from the city.
Station Manager
Bill McKay is a candidate for the U.S. Senate from California. He has no hope of winning, so he is willing to tweak the establishment.
Mahlon, Director
An improvisational comedian, working with The Committee improv group in San Francisco, struggles to be taken seriously.
Andrei
In a small Russian town at the turn of the century, three sisters and their brother live but dream daily of their return to their former home in Moscow, where life is charming and stimulating meaningful. But for now they exist in a malaise of dissatisfaction. Soldiers from the local military post provide them some companionship and society, but nothing can suffice to replace Moscow in their hopes. Andrei marries a provincial girl, Natasha, and begins to settle into a life of much less meaning than he had hoped. Natasha begins to run the family her way. Masha, though married, yearns for the sophisticated life and begins a dalliance with Vershinin, an army officer with a sick and suicidal wife. Even Irina, the freshest, most optimistic of the sisters, begins to waver in her dreams until, finally, tragedy strikes.
Gully
In New Mexico, a Confederate veteran returns home to find his fiancée married to a Union soldier, his Yankee neighbors rallied against him and his property sold by the local banker who then hires a gunman to kill him.
Based on Graham Greene's novel about a flawed but devoted priest in 1930s Mexico who attempts to perform his duties while eluding a police lieutenant determined to capture him.
George
Booze, pills and loneliness mark a young actress' rise to stardom.
Telegin
A country doctor (Franchot Tone) loves but cannot have a professor's wife (Clarence Derwent) in Chekhov's play set in czarist Russia.
