Senator Laine Hanson is a contender for US Vice President, but information and disinformation about her past surfaces that threatens to de-rail her confirmation.
A former child star torments her paraplegic sister in their decaying Hollywood mansion.
A bitter, aging couple, with the help of alcohol, use a young couple to fuel anguish and emotional pain towards each other.
Over the course of a few hectic days, numerous interrelated people prepare for a political convention as secrets and lies are surfaced and revealed.
A bomber on board an airplane, an airport almost closed by snow, and various personal problems of the people involved.
A graduate history student is unwittingly caught in the middle of an international conspiracy involving stolen diamonds, an exiled Nazi war criminal, and a rogue government agent.
A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City.
A journalist is trapped in Cambodia during tyrant Pol Pot's bloody 'Year Zero' cleansing campaign, which claimed the lives of two million 'undesirable' civilians.
The story of how Bugsy Siegel started Las Vegas.
In prerevolutionary Russia, a Jewish peasant contends with marrying off three of his daughters while growing anti-Semitic sentiment threatens his village.
Rafting expert Gail takes on a pair of armed killers while navigating a spectacularly violent river.
At the opening party of a colossal, but poorly constructed, office building, a massive fire breaks out that threatens to destroy the tower and everyone in it.
Billy Hayes, an American college student, is caught smuggling drugs out of Turkey and thrown into prison.
A lawyer sees the chance to salvage his career and self-respect by taking a medical malpractice case to trial rather than settling.
The story of Jaime Escalante, a high school teacher who successfully inspired his dropout prone students to learn calculus.
A Midwesterner becomes fascinated with his nouveau riche neighbor, who obsesses over his lost love.
Two escaped convicts and a female railway worker find themselves trapped on a train with no brakes and nobody driving.
At the behest of an old and dear friend, playwright Lillian Hellman undertakes a dangerous mission to smuggle funds into Nazi Germany.
A teenager with a massive facial skull deformity and biker gang mother attempt to live as normal a life as possible under the circumstances.
A recently blinded woman is terrorized by a trio of thugs while they search for a heroin-stuffed doll they believe is in her apartment.