A woman must fly back to her hometown when her Alzheimer’s-stricken mother wanders into a blizzard. The return home forces her to confront her past.

Biography of Loretta Lynn, a country and western singer that came from poverty to fame.

The greedy nephew of eccentric Matilda Reid seeks to have her judged incompetent so he can administer her wealth; but she will be saved if her three long-lost adopted sons…

The widows of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X and how they carry on as single mothers after the assassination of their husbands.

As a young child our protagonist is left by his mother and has to live with his violent father. He fights his way through adolescence and falls in love with…

The story about Abby Jensen, a girl who’s been eager to reach her 16th birthday and has kept a secret wish list since she was a little girl. When the…

Twelve-year-old Charlotte commits the unthinkable when she stands up to Brenda the bully late one night.

In turn-of-the-century Mississippi, an 11-year-old boy comes of age as two mischievous adult friends talk him into sneaking the family car out for a trip to Memphis and a series…

A theater director tries to put on a play with real underprivileged Roma people about their lives but, feeling advantage of, the actors leave the troupe to gain a new…

When 43-year-old hairdresser Suze Trappet finds out that she’s seriously ill, she decides to go looking for a child she was forced to abandon when she was only 15. On…

Under the pretense of having a picnic, a geologist takes his teenage daughter and 6-year-old son into the Australian outback and attempts to shoot them. When he fails, he turns…

A struggling inner-city mother sacrifices everything to give her son a good education. Unwilling to allow her son to stay in a dangerous school, she launches a movement that could…