An unemployed single mother becomes a legal assistant and almost single-handedly brings down a California power company accused of polluting a city's water supply.
On his first day on the job as a Los Angeles narcotics officer, a rookie cop goes beyond a full work day in training within the narcotics division of the LAPD with a rogue detective who isn't what he appears to be.
Julia Child's story of her start in the cooking profession is intertwined with blogger Julie Powell's 2002 challenge to cook all the recipes in Child's first book.
An aspiring author during the civil rights movement of the 1960s decides to write a book detailing the African American maids' point of view on the white families for which they work, and the hardships they go through on a daily basis.
Soon after her divorce, a fiction writer returns to her home in small-town Minnesota, looking to rekindle a romance with her ex-boyfriend, who is now happily married and has a newborn daughter.
A group of women take on Fox News head Roger Ailes and the toxic atmosphere he presided over at the network.
An old man makes a long journey by lawn-mover tractor to mend his relationship with an ill brother.
The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island people are shattered when their addictions run deep.
A frustrated son tries to determine the fact from fiction in his dying father's life.
The U.S. government decides to go after an agro-business giant with a price-fixing accusation, based on the evidence submitted by their star witness, vice president-turned-informant Mark Whitacre.
J. Edgar Hoover, powerful head of the F.B.I. for nearly 50 years, looks back on his professional and personal life.
U.K. gay activists work to help miners during their lengthy strike of the National Union of Mineworkers in the summer of 1984.
A young mother reconnects with her larger-than-life playboy father on an adventure through New York.
A television network cynically exploits a deranged former anchor's ravings and revelations about the news media for its own profit.
Following an accidental encounter with otherworldly vessels, an ordinary man follows a series of psychic clues to the first scheduled meeting between representatives of Earth and visitors from the cosmos.
An in-depth examination of the ways in which the U.S. Vietnam War impacts and disrupts the lives of people in a small industrial town in Pennsylvania.
An old Jewish woman and her African-American chauffeur in the American South have a relationship that grows and improves over the years.
Two imprisoned men bond over a number of years, finding solace and eventual redemption through acts of common decency.
The story of a young man's adventures in the Californian pornography industry of the late 1970s and early 1980s.
A boy who communicates with spirits that don't know they're dead seeks the help of a disheartened child psychologist.