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Sully is a rascally ne'er-do-well approaching retirement age. While he is pressing a worker's compensation suit for a bad knee, he secretly works for his nemesis, Carl, and flirts with Carl's young wife Toby. Sully's long- forgotten son and family have moved back to town, so Sully faces unfamiliar f β¦amily responsibilities. Meanwhile, Sully's landlady's banker son plots to push through a new development and evict Sully from his mother's life. (Read More)
Subgenre: | independent film |
Themes: | funeralchristmas |
Locations: | school teachersmall townsnow |
Characters: | grandfather grandson relationshipmother son relationshipmotherpolice officerhusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | flashing breastsbreast flashingpoker gamesnow blowerreal estate investmentdriving on the sidewalkdrugged animaldilapidated houselandlord tenant relationshipvictorian houselocksdeath of cast memberwatchdogkneeseparated β¦pallbearerstepsartificial legone legged manpunched in the noseprosthetic limbdobermanpharmacistflashingdonutlimpstrokehorse racingconstructionstepfatherthanksgivingsexy womanhawaiibloody nosegrocery storewhiskeyscambeer drinkingpokerteapickup truckbralessdomestic violencetoiletdinerbathroomapostrophe in titlepunctuation in titlefemale nuditytwo word titlebased on novelbare breastsnudity (See All) |
Set in the Southern United States, 'Monster's Ball' is a tale of a racist white man, Hank, who falls in love with a black woman named Leticia. Ironically Hank is a prison guard working on Death Row who executed Leticia's husband. Hank and Leticia's interracial affair leads to confusion and new ideas β¦ for the two unlikely lovers. (Read More)
Subgenre: | independent film |
Themes: | funeral |
Characters: | mother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | sexy womanwhiskeypickup truckdinerapostrophe in titlepunctuation in titlefemale nuditytwo word title |
A mother lives quietly with her twenty-eight-year-old son, Do-joon, providing herbs and acupuncture to neighbors. One day, a girl is brutally murdered, and Do-joon is charged with the killing. Now, it's his mother's call whether to prove him innocent or to leave him imprisoned.
Themes: | funeral |
Locations: | small town |
Characters: | mother son relationshipmotherpolice officerhusband wife relationship |
Story: | bloody noseteatoiletfemale nudity |
Betty Anne Waters (Swank) is a high school dropout who spent nearly two decades working as a single mother while putting herself through law school, tirelessly trying to beat the system and overturn her brother's (Rockwell) unjust murder conviction.
Themes: | funeralchristmas |
Characters: | grandfather grandson relationshipmother son relationshipmotherhusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | pickup trucktoiletdinernudity |
Christmas is approaching and 9 year-old Ralphie wants only one thing: a Red Ryder Range 200 Shot BB gun. When he mentions it at the dinner table, his mother's immediate reaction is that he'll put his eye out. He then decides on a perfect theme for his teacher but her reaction is like his. He fantasi β¦zes about what it would be like to be Red Ryder and catch the bad guys. When the big day arrives he gets lots of present under the tree including a lovely gift from his aunt that his mother just adores. But what about the BB gun? (Read More)
Themes: | christmas |
Locations: | small townsnow |
Characters: | mother son relationshipmotherfather son relationship |
Story: | bloody nosebathroombased on novel |
After causing a loss of almost one billion dollars in his company, the shoe designer Drew Baylor decides to commit suicide. However, in the exact moment of his act of despair, he receives a phone call from his sister telling him that his beloved father had just died in Elizabethtown, and he should b β¦ring him back since his mother had problem with the relatives of his father. He travels in an empty red eye flight and meets the attendant Claire Colburn, who changes his view and perspective of life. (Read More)
Themes: | funeralchristmas |
Locations: | small town |
Characters: | grandfather grandson relationshipmother son relationshipmotherhusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | whiskeybathroom |
The story of 'James Whale (I)' (qv), the Director of _Frankenstein (1931)_ (qv) and _Bride of Frankenstein (1935)_ (qv), in the time period following the Korean War. Whale was homosexual, and develops a friendship with his gardener, an ex-Marine.
Subgenre: | independent film |
Characters: | mother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | stroketeapickup truckbathroomfemale nuditybased on novelnudity |
Based on Rosalie Ham's best selling novel, The Dressmaker is the story of femme fatale Tilly Dunnage who returns to her small home town in the country to right the wrongs of the past. A stylish drama with comic undertones about love, revenge and haute couture.
Themes: | funeral |
Locations: | school teachersmall town |
Characters: | mother son relationshipmotherhusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | whiskeyteabased on novel |
Locations: | snow |
Characters: | grandfather grandson relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | strokewhiskeyteapickup truckbased on novelbare breasts |
Four adopted brothers come to avenge their mother's death in what appears to be a random killing in a grocery store robbery. However, the boys' investigation of the death reveals more nefarious activities involving the one brother's business dealings with a notorious local hoodlum. Two cops who are β¦trying to solve the case may also not be what they seem. (Read More)
Themes: | funeral |
Locations: | snow |
Characters: | mother son relationship |
Story: | thanksgivinggrocery storepokertoilet |
A small community is torn apart by a tragic accident which kills most of the town's children. A lawyer visits the victims' parents in order to profit from the tragedy by stirring up the their anger and launching a class action suit against anyone they can blame. The community is paralyzed by its ang β¦er and cannot let go. All but one young girl, left in a wheelchair after the accident, who finds the courage to lead the way toward healing. (Read More)
Subgenre: | independent film |
Locations: | small townsnow |
Characters: | mother son relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | stroketeapickup truckfemale nuditybased on novel |
When Henry DeTamble meets Clare Abshire in a Chicago library they both understand that he is a time traveler, but she knows much more about him as he has not yet been to the times and places where they have already met. He falls in love with her, as she has already with him, but his continuing unavo β¦idable absences while time traveling - and then returning with increasing knowledge of their future - makes things ever more difficult for Clare. (Read More)
Themes: | christmas |
Locations: | snow |
Characters: | mother son relationshippolice officerhusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | dinerapostrophe in titlepunctuation in titlefemale nuditybased on novel |
A suburban Chicago teenager's parents leave on vacation, and he cuts loose. An unauthorised trip in his father's Porsche means a sudden need for lots of money, which he raises in a creative way.
Characters: | mother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | poker gamepokerbathroomfemale nuditytwo word title |
Andrew Largeman is a semi-successful television actor who plays a intellectually disabled quarterback. His somewhat controlling and psychiatrist father has led Andrew ("Large") to believe that his mother's wheelchair bound life was his fault. Andrew decides to lay off the drugs that his father and h β¦is doctor made him believe that he needed, and began to see life for what it is. He began to feel the pain he had longed for, and began to have a genuine relationship with a girl who had some problems of her own. (Read More)
Themes: | funeral |
Characters: | grandfather grandson relationshipmother son relationshippolice officerhusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | dobermanscamteabathroomfemale nudity |
In rural Tennessee, Lazarus, a former blues musician who survives by truck farming, finds a young girl nearly beaten to death near his home. She's the white-trash town tramp, molded by a life of sexual abuse at the hands of her father and verbal abuse from her mother, who seems to delight in remindi β¦ng Rae of her mistake in not aborting her. Lazarus, who is also facing personal crisis at the dissolution of his marriage, nurses Rae back to health, providing her with gentle, fatherly advice as well as an education in blues music. Rae's boyfriend, Ronnie, goaded by the man who nearly beat Rae to death, misunderstands the relationship between Lazarus and Rae, and vows to kill him. Lazarus, exhibiting a street-smart understanding of violence and its motives, calls Ronnie's bluff, senses that he is as troubled as Rae, and becomes a guiding force in the young couple's resurrection. (Read More)
Locations: | small town |
Characters: | motherhusband wife relationship |
Story: | watchdogpharmacistbloody nosegrocery storepickup truckfemale nuditybare breastsnudity |
Texan rancher Bick Benedict visits a Maryland farm to buy a prize horse. Whilst there he meets and falls in love with the owner's daughter Leslie, they are married immediately and return to his ranch. The story of their family and its rivalry with cowboy and (later oil tycoon) Jett Rink unfolds acro β¦ss two generations. (Read More)
Themes: | funeralchristmas |
Characters: | grandfather grandson relationshipmother son relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | death of cast memberthanksgivingteadinerbased on novel |
Over a thirty-six hour period in Los Angeles, a handful of disparate people's lives intertwine as they deal with the tense race relations that belie life in the city. Among the players are: the Caucasian district attorney, who uses race as a political card; his Caucasian wife, who, having recently b β¦een carjacked by two black men, believes that her stereotypical views of non-whites is justified and cannot be considered racism; the two black carjackers who use their race both to their advantage and as an excuse; partnered Caucasian police constables, one who is a racist and uses his authority to harass non-whites, and the other who hates his partner because of those racist views, but who may have the same underlying values in his subconscious; a black film director and his black wife, who believes her husband doesn't support their black background enough, especially in light of an incident with the racist white cop; partnered police detectives and sometimes lovers, one Hispanic female and the other black male, the latter who is dealing with a drugged out mother that feels he isn't concerned enough about taking care of family; an East Asian man who is run over but who is hiding some valuable cargo in the back of his van; a Persian store owner, who feels he isn't getting satisfaction from American society when his store is robbed time and time again; and a Hispanic locksmith, who just wants to keep his family, especially his young daughter, safe in a seemingly unsafe world. (Read More)
Subgenre: | independent film |
Themes: | christmas |
Locations: | snow |
Characters: | mother son relationshipmotherpolice officerhusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | grocery storetoiletdinerbathroomfemale nuditybare breastsnudity |
What's Eating Gibert Grape is a beautifully shot movie of tenderness, caring and self-awareness that is set amongst the fictional working class one street town Endora. Centred around the Grape family Ellen and Amy and their two brothers Arnie and Gilbert, who, along with their morbidly obese widowed β¦ mother Bonnie Grape are striving to survive and coexist with the absence of a father figure, low wage work and seventeen-year-old Arnie's severe mental condition. It is in this awkward and extremely one sided affair that the unfortunate Gilbert has to constantly, while working for the town's slowly dying convenience store, take care of his younger brother Arnie. Gilbert's life, his future, is thwarted he knows this, but it is in this guardian angel that his love and bond for Arnie cannot, and will not, be let go. That is until the free spirit of Becky arrives in town, and with her grandmother are stranded for the week while waiting for parts for their vehicle. This realization unties new feelings, new thoughts and new hope for the put upon Gibert, something new is eating Gilbert Grape. (Read More)
Subgenre: | independent film |
Themes: | funeral |
Locations: | small town |
Characters: | mother son relationshipmotherpolice officerhusband wife relationship |
Story: | grocery storeapostrophe in titlebased on novel |
Robert Dupea has given up his promising career as a concert pianist and is now working in oil fields. He lives together with Rayette, who's a waitress in a diner. When Robert hears from his sister that his father isn't well, he drives up to Washington to see him, taking Rayette with him. There he ge β¦ts confronted with his rich, cultured family that he had left behind. (Read More)
Locations: | small town |
Characters: | husband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | strokepokerdinerfemale nudity |
Jenna is unhappily married, squirreling away money, and hoping to win a pie-baking contest so, with the prize money, she'll have enough cash to leave her husband Earl. She finds herself pregnant, which throws her plans awry. She bakes phenomenal pies at Joe's diner, listens to old Joe's wisdom, tole β¦rates her sour boss Cal, is friends with Dawn and Becky (her fellow waitresses), and finds a mutual attraction with the new doctor in town. As the pregnancy advances, life with Earl seems less tolerable, a way out less clear, and the affair with the doctor complicated by his marriage. What options does a waitress have? (Read More)
Locations: | small town |
Characters: | mother son relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | death of cast memberdomestic violencediner |
John and Laura Baxter are in Venice when they meet a pair of elderly sisters, one of whom claims to be psychic. She insists that she sees the spirit of the Baxters' daughter, who recently drowned. Laura is intrigued, but John resists the idea. He, however, seems to have his own psychic flashes, seei β¦ng their daughter walk the streets in her red cloak, as well as Laura and the sisters on a funeral gondola. (Read More)
Subgenre: | independent film |
Themes: | funeral |
Characters: | mother son relationshippolice officerhusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | whiskeyapostrophe in titlepunctuation in titlefemale nuditybare breasts |
When a single mother and her six-year-old daughter move to rural France and open a chocolate shop - with Sunday hours - across the street from the local church, they are met with some skepticism. But as soon as they coax the townspeople into enjoying their delicious products, they are warmly welcome β¦d. (Read More)
Locations: | small townsnow |
Characters: | mother son relationshipmotherhusband wife relationship |
Story: | bloody nosedomestic violencebased on novelnudity |
A family. Rose and Norah, in Albuquerque, lost their mother when they were young. Rose is responsible - a housecleaner, raising her seven-year-old son Oscar. She's also having an affair with Mac, a married cop, her high-school sweetheart. Norah can't hold a job. Their dad, Joe, is quirky. When Oscar β¦ is expelled for odd behavior, Rose wants to earn enough to send him to private school. Mac suggests she clean up after crime scenes, suicides, and deaths that go undiscovered for awhile. Rose enlists Norah, and Sunshine Cleaners is born. Norah bonds with the dead, Rose finds out that it's a regulated business, and complications arise. Can a family marked by tragedy sort things out? (Read More)
Subgenre: | independent film |
Characters: | grandfather grandson relationshipmother son relationshipmotherpolice officerhusband wife relationship |
Story: | grocery storescamdiner |
Finding himself in considerable debt, Chris, a Texan drug dealer, decides the only solution is to murder his mother to collect the insurance money. Getting together with his father, the ex-husband of Chris' mother, they decide to hire Joe Cooper (a contract killer) who also happens to be a police de β¦tective. The plan is that the money will go to Chris' sister Dottie. However due to the size of the contract fee, Chris agrees that Joe can take Dottie as a retainer until the insurance comes through. (Read More)
Themes: | funeral |
Characters: | mother son relationshipmotherhusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | horse racingbloody nosepickup truckfemale nuditytwo word titlebare breastsnudity |
In Texas, after the death of his mother, the unemployed oil and gas worker Toby Howard is losing his ranch to the Texas Midlands Bank. Toby is divorced from his wife who lives with their two sons. When his brother Tanner Howard is released from the prison, they team up to rob agencies of the Texas M β¦idlands Bank to raise money to pay the loan so that Toby may leave the real estate to his sons. Meanwhile the Texas Ranger Marcus Hamilton who is near retirement and his Indian descendant partner Alberto Parker try to anticipate the next move of the thieves. (Read More)
Subgenre: | independent film |
Locations: | small town |
Characters: | mother son relationshipmotherpolice officerfather son relationship |
Story: | beer drinkingpokerpickup truckdinerbare breasts |
Two sisters, plus a dead mother, a remarried father, and a hostile step-mother. The sisters, each in her way, have perfected the art of losing. The elder, Rose, is an attorney, responsible, lonely, with a closet full of shoes. The younger is Maggie, beautiful, selfish, and irresponsible. Her drunken β¦ behavior gets her tossed by her step-mother from her dad's house; worse behavior gets her tossed from Rose's apartment. Then, while searching in her father's desk for money to filch, Maggie finds an address; the past and the future open up to her and, with any luck, may open to her sister as well. (Read More)
Locations: | snow |
Characters: | grandfather grandson relationshipmotherhusband wife relationship |
Story: | grocery storepickup trucktoiletdinerbased on novel |
In Bedridge, Professor Parker Wilson finds an abandoned dog at the train station and takes it home with the intention of returning the animal to its owner. He finds that the dog is an Akita and names it Hachiko. However, nobody claims the dog so his family decides to keep Hachi.
Themes: | funeralchristmas |
Locations: | snow |
Characters: | grandfather grandson relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | pickup truckapostrophe in titlepunctuation in title |
A large spider from the jungles of South America is accidently transported in a crate with a dead body to America where it mates with a local spider. Soon after, the residents of a small California town disappear as the result of spider bites from the deadly spider offspring. It's up to a couple of β¦doctors with the help of an insect exterminator to annihilate these eight legged freaks before they take over the entire town. (Read More)
Subgenre: | independent film |
Themes: | funeral |
Locations: | small town |
Characters: | mother son relationshippolice officerhusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | toilet |
Bad Blake is a broken-down, hard-living country music singer who's had way too many marriages, far too many years on the road and one too many drinks way too many times. And yet, Bad can't help but reach for salvation with the help of Jean, a journalist who discovers the real man behind the musician β¦. (Read More)
Characters: | mother son relationship |
Story: | limpwhiskeypickup trucktoiletfemale nuditybased on novelnudity |
A massive ball of furry creatures from another world eat their way through a small mid-western town followed by intergalactic bounty hunters opposed only by militant townspeople.
Subgenre: | independent film |
Locations: | small town |
Characters: | mother son relationshippolice officerhusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | whiskeypickup trucktoilet |
A meek word processor impulsively travels to Manhattan's Soho District to date an attractive but apparently disturbed young woman and finds himself trapped there in a nightmarishly surreal vortex of improbable coincidences and farcical circumstances.
Subgenre: | independent film |
Characters: | police officer |
Story: | domestic violencetoiletdinerfemale nuditytwo word titlebare breastsnudity |
Two young men, Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist, meet when they get a job as sheep herders on Brokeback Mountain. They are at first strangers, then they become friends. Throughout the weeks, they grow closer as they learn more about each other. One night, after some heavy drinking, they find a deeper co β¦nnection. They then indulge in a blissful romance for the rest of the summer. Unable to deal with their feelings for each other, they part ways at the end of the summer. Four years go by, and they each settle down, Ennis in Wyoming with his wife and two girls, and Jack in Texas with his wife and son. Still longing for each other, they meet back up, and are faced with the fact that they need each other. They undeniably need each other, and unsure of what to do, they start a series of "fishing trips", in order to spend time together. The relationship struggles on for years until tragedy strikes. (Read More)
Locations: | small townsnow |
Characters: | mother son relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | thanksgivinggrocery storewhiskeypickup truckdinerfemale nuditytwo word title |
In late 1951, Eilis Lacey, a young Irish girl, emigrates to Brooklyn. Sponsored by Father Flood, a priest from her native town Enniscorthy, she is assured to find a full-time job there. But the early days are tough, seasickness being soon replaced by loneliness and homesickness, two feelings all the β¦ more acutely felt by Eilis for having had to leave behind her widowed mother and her dear sister Rose. She nevertheless little by little manages to find her footing by adapting to her job as a salesgirl, by studying bookkeeping at Brooklyn College as well as with a little help from both Father Flood and Mrs. Kehoe, the owner of the boarding school she now lives in. And not only does graduation follow but love shows its face in Tony, an Italian-American plumber, full of adoration and respect for her. They end up marrying, although keeping the thing secret. It is at that point that tragedy strikes inciting Eilis to return to Enniscorthy to support her mother morally. And there a strange thing happens : she gradually gets lured by the charms of her native place, going far as to let herself be wooed by Jim Farrell, a young local. (Read More)
Themes: | christmas |
Locations: | snow |
Characters: | mother son relationshipmotherhusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | landlord tenant relationshipgrocery storeteabathroombased on novel |
When Jessica King goes missing, all eyes turn to Annabelle Wilson. Not as a murder suspect, but as a clairvoyant. Many of the towns folk go to Annabelle for help, and Jessica's fiancee, Wayne Collins, turns to Annabelle for possible guidance. Annabelle feels that she can't help, but this doesn't sto β¦p her from constantly getting visions of Jessica's fate. (Read More)
Subgenre: | independent film |
Locations: | small town |
Characters: | mother son relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | bloody nosepickup truckdomestic violencefemale nuditytwo word title |
Ronald Miller is tired of being a nerd, and makes a deal with one of the most popular girls in school to help him break into the "cool" clique. He offers her a thousand dollars to pretend to be his girlfriend for a month. It succeeds, but he soon learns that the price of popularity may be higher tha β¦n he expected. (Read More)
Story: | poker gamescambathroomapostrophe in titlepunctuation in title |
Michael Clayton, a high-priced law firm's fixer, leaves a late night poker game, gets a call to drive to Westchester, and watches his car blow up as he's taking an impromptu dawn walk through a field. Flash back four days. He owes a loan shark to cover his brother's debts (Michael's own gambling hab β¦its have left him virtually broke). His law firm is negotiating a high-stakes merger, and his firm's six year defense of a conglomerate's pesticide use is at risk when one of the firm's top litigators goes off his meds and puts the case in jeopardy. While Michael is trying to fix things someone decides to kill him. Who? Meanwhile his son summarizes the plot of a dark fantasy novel. (Read More)
Locations: | snow |
Characters: | mother son relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | poker gamepoker |
At 16, Nick Twisp is wry about his teen funk: he lives in Oakland with his sex-addled mother; his father's child support is her meal ticket. While camping in Ukiah, Nick meets Sheeni: for him, it's love at first sight. Nick has to figure out how to get his father a job in Ukiah, then how to get sent β¦ to live with his father, then how to get close to Sheeni, whose religious parents may want her sent away from temptation to a boarding school. There's also Sheeni's all-American boyfriend to contend with. Overwhelmed by the challenges, Nick's about to give up when he conjures an alter ego who whispers revolt into his ear. Nick is not altogether hapless, but can this end well? (Read More)
Characters: | mother son relationshipmotherpolice officerfather son relationship |
Story: | donutthanksgivinggrocery storebathroombased on novel |
In a castle high on top of a hill lives an inventor's greatest creation - Edward, a near-complete person. The creator died before he could finish Edward's hands; instead, he is left with metal scissors for hands. Since then, he has lived alone, until a kind lady called Peg discovers him and welcomes β¦ him into her home. At first, everyone welcomes him into the community, but soon things begin to take a change for the worse. (Read More)
Themes: | christmas |
Locations: | snow |
Characters: | mother son relationshippolice officerhusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | prosthetic limbdiner |
Aydin, a former actor, runs a small hotel in central Anatolia with his young wife Nihal with whom he has a stormy relationship and his sister Necla who is suffering from her recent divorce. In winter as the snow begins to fall, the hotel turns into a shelter but also an inescapable place that fuels β¦their animosities... (Read More)
Locations: | school teachersnow |
Characters: | husband wife relationship |
Story: | landlord tenant relationshipteatwo word title |
An inksetter in New York, Quoyle returns to his family's longtime home, a small fishing town in Newfoundland, with his young daughter, after a traumatizing experience with her mother, Petal, who sold her to an illegal adoption agency. Though Quoyle has had little success thus far in life, his shippi β¦ng news column in the newspaper "The Gammy Bird" finds an audience, and his experiences in the town change his life. Then he meets the widow Wavey... (Read More)
Locations: | small townsnow |
Characters: | mother son relationshipmotherhusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | teadinerbased on novel |
In small-town Texas, high school football is a religion. The head coach is deified, as long as the team is winning and 17-year-old schoolboys carry the hopes of an entire community onto the gridiron every Friday night. In his 35th year as head coach, Bud Kilmer (Jon Voight) is trying to lead his Wes β¦t Canaan Coyotes to their 23rd division title. When star quarterback Lance Harbor (Paul Walker) suffers an injury, the Coyotes are forced to regroup under the questionable leadership of John Moxon (James Van Der Beek), a second-string quarterback with a slightly irreverent approach to the game. "Varsity Blues" explores our obsession with sports and how teenage athletes respond to the extraordinary pressures places on them. (Read More)
Locations: | small town |
Characters: | mother son relationshippolice officerfather son relationship |
Story: | whiskeypickup truckfemale nuditybare breastsnudity |
Fatherless John Farley's youth frustration, even trauma, like many his school kids' in his Nebraska small town home, was the constant abuse and humiliation in sadistic Jasper Woodcock's gym class. After college, doting son John became a motivational bestseller author and returns during a book signin β¦g tour to receive the backwater's highest honor. To John's horror, his devoted mother Beverly announces her plans to marry the hated coach and he's to be celebrated on the same event as John. Only ridiculous fatso Nedderman and his strange brother try to help Farley stop Woodcock, but that keeps backfiring. (Read More)
Themes: | christmas |
Locations: | small town |
Characters: | mother son relationshipmotherfather son relationship |
Story: | punctuation in titletwo word title |
When his only friend and co-worker dies, a young man born with dwarfism moves to an abandoned train depot in rural New Jersey. Though he tried to maintain a life of solitude, he is soon entangled with an artist who is struggling with a personal tragedy and an overly friendly Cuban hot-dog vendor.
Subgenre: | independent film |
Locations: | small town |
Characters: | mother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | grocery storepickup truckdiner |
John and Max are elderly men living next door to each other. They're continuously arguing and insulting each other, and have been this way for over 50 years. One day, Ariel, moves into the street. Both men are attracted to her, and their rivalry steps up a gear.
Themes: | christmas |
Locations: | school teachersnow |
Characters: | father son relationship |
Story: | stepsthanksgiving |
Ollie Trinkie is a publicist, who has a great girlfriend, Gertrude, whom he marries and they are expecting a baby but while he is looking forward to being a father, he doesn't lighten his workload. Gertrude gives birth but dies in the process. Ollie doesn't live up to his responsibilities as a fathe β¦r. Eventually the strain and pressure of losing his wife and being a father gets to him and he has breakdown, which leads to his termination. So with nothing much to do he tries to be good father to his daughter, Gertie. He also meets a young woman name Maya, who likes him but he is still not over his wife. (Read More)
Themes: | funeralchristmas |
Characters: | husband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | toiletdinerbathroomfemale nuditynudity |
Three grown prodigies, all with a unique genius of some kind, and their mother are staying at the family household. Their father, Royal had left them long ago, and comes back to make things right with his family.
Subgenre: | independent film |
Themes: | funeral |
Characters: | grandfather grandson relationshipmother son relationshipmotherpolice officerhusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Hank Palmer is a successful defense attorney in Chicago, who is getting a divorce. When His brother calls with the news that their mother has died, Hank returns to his childhood home to attend the funeral. Despite the brittle bond between Hank and the Judge, Hank must come to his father's aid and de β¦fend him in court. Here, Hank discovers the truth behind the case, which binds together the dysfunctional family and reveals the struggles and secrecy of the family. (Read More)
Themes: | funeral |
Locations: | small town |
Characters: | mother son relationshipmotherhusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | toiletdinerbathroom |
Southern Californian Bree Osbourne, formerly Stanley Chupak, has finally received the news for which she has been waiting: she has been approved for male-to-female sexual reassignment surgery. But before Margaret, her therapist, will allow her to go through with the surgery scheduled in a week's tim β¦e, Bree has to deal with an unresolved problem from her past. Bree gets a telephone call from a seventeen year old man named Toby Wilkins, who is looking for Stanley, his biological father. Toby is in a New York jail, having been supporting himself by petty crime and hustling. Stanley/Bree knew nothing about Toby before the telephone call. Toby apparently is all alone in the world, with his mother having committed suicide and being estranged from his stepfather in Tennessee. Masquerading as a Christian social worker, Bree, not telling him either of her true identity or her transgender status, bails Toby out of jail and tells him she will take him to Los Angeles, where Toby has aspirations of becoming a porn actor and reconnecting with his biological father. As Bree and Toby take their trans-American journey which includes some interesting encounters along the way, Bree has to decide what is best for Toby while having the foremost goal of making it back to Los Angeles for the scheduled surgery. (Read More)
Subgenre: | independent film |
Characters: | mother son relationshipmotherfather son relationship |
Story: | stepfatherdomestic violencefemale nudity |
A boy named Walter is dropped by his mother Mae at his great-uncles' house. Later,Walter will find out his great-uncles' big secret. And rumors say that Hub & Garth, Walter's great uncles, have stolen much gold & money. (some say they stole it from Al Capone) Did they really steal that money or not?
Characters: | mother son relationshipmother |
Story: | beer drinkingdomestic violencediner |
Simon is a timid man, scratching out an isolated existence in an indifferent world. He is overlooked at work, scorned by his mother, and ignored by the woman of his dreams. He feels powerless to change any of these things. The arrival of a new co-worker, James, serves to upset the balance. James is β¦both Simons exact physical double and his opposite - confident, charismatic and good with women. To Simons horror, James slowly starts taking over his life. (Read More)
Themes: | funeral |
Characters: | mother son relationshipmother |
Story: | bloody nosedinertwo word titlebased on novel |