Lianna

Lianna has moved out of the house she shared with her ex-husband Dick. She has her own apartment, and she’s gotten a job checking groceries. Lianna hasn’t been able to see her children often, and she knows that her lover, Ruth, is seeing her former lover and trying to decide to whom she will commit. […]

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Lianna

Lianna is the young wife of a film studies professor at a small college. She used to be his student; they had an affair and now have been married several years, much of it unhappily. Dick still sleeps with his students, and takes no pains to hide it from Lianna. They have two children now, […]

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Johnny Suede

Johnny has moved in with Yvonne; it’s his birthday and she has prepared a celebration at home with cake and presents. Johnny, however, doesn’t show. He has followed a girl he saw in the grocery store to her apartment and had sex with her. He falls asleep by accident, then wakes up to realize how […]

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I Am Sam

Sam Dawson, a mentally challenged man with the mental equivalency of a 7-year-old, is living in Los Angeles and is single-handedly raising his daughter Lucy. After a series of events, a social worker takes Lucy away. A judge allows Sam only two supervised, two-hour visits per week. Sam’s friends recommend that he hire Rita, a […]

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Hud

Hud is attracted to his family’s middle-aged housekeeper, Alma, and he is crude and insulting to her. Although Hud’s fondness for her is (at first) somewhat mutual, Alma keeps her distance because she has already been “around the block” with macho womanizers like Hud. […]

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Holy Smoke!

During a trip to India, Ruth Barron has a spiritual awakening and embraces the teachings of a guru named Baba. Her parents are appalled, and through a series of events, they put her in the hands of an American exit counselor who deprograms members of religious cults. In a remote cabin, he isolates Ruth, separates […]

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Grand Canyon

Dee works for Mack as his secretary/assistant. They have had a one-night stand, but it didn’t blossom into an affair. Mack is married, relatively happily, but something is missing from his life. He’s recently met a man, a tow-truck driver who helped him out of a dangerous situation when Mack broke down in a crime-ridden […]

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