An orphan boy and his magical dragon come to town with his abusive adoptive parents in pursuit.
A young single mother and textile worker agrees to help unionize her mill despite the problems and dangers involved.
In the Victorian period, two children are shipwrecked on a tropical island in the South Pacific. With no adults to guide them, the two make a simple life together, unaware that sexual maturity will eventually intervene.
Bud is a young man from the country who learns about life and love in a Houston bar.
Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's turned into one huge lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a river-rafting trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country.
"The Washington Post" reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the details of the Watergate scandal that leads to President Richard Nixon's resignation.
The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate.
Charlie receives a golden ticket to a factory, his sweet tooth wants going into the lushing candy, it turns out there's an adventure in everything.
A man robs a bank to pay for his lover's operation; it turns into a hostage situation and a media circus.
Hysterical Californians prepare for a Japanese invasion in the days after Pearl Harbor.
A simple, sheltered gardener becomes an unlikely trusted advisor to a powerful businessman and an insider in Washington politics.
The tragic life of a self-destructive female rock star who struggles to deal with the constant pressures of her career and the demands of her ruthless business manager.
A couple of high school grads spend one final night cruising the strip with their buddies before they go off to college.
In 1951, a group of high schoolers come of age in a bleak, isolated, atrophied West Texas town that is slowly dying, both culturally and economically.
Young, rich, and obsessed with death, Harold finds himself changed forever when he meets lively septuagenarian Maude at a funeral.
Over the course of a few hectic days, numerous interrelated people prepare for a political convention as secrets and lies are surfaced and revealed.
Three female employees of a sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot find a way to turn the tables on him.
A Chicago playwright uses self-hypnosis to travel back in time and meet the actress whose vintage portrait hangs in a grand hotel.
A dropout from upper-class America picks up work along the way on oil rigs when his life isn't spent in a squalid succession of bars, motels, and other points of interest.
A bomber on board an airplane, an airport almost closed by snow, and various personal problems of the people involved.