Ryan Bingham enjoys living out of a suitcase for his job traveling around the country firing people, but finds that lifestyle threatened by the presence of a potential love interest and a new hire.
Two children conceived by artificial insemination bring their biological father into their non-traditional family life.
In 1950s Connecticut, a housewife faces a marital crisis and mounting racial tensions in the outside world.
Nine years after Jesse and Celine first met, they encounter each other again on the French leg of Jesse's book tour.
Fledgling writer Briony Tallis, as a thirteen-year-old, irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.
After a stint in a mental institution, former teacher Pat Solitano moves back in with his parents and tries to reconcile with his ex-wife. Things get more challenging when Pat meets Tiffany, a mysterious girl with problems of her own.
The story of Richard and Mildred Loving, a couple whose arrest for interracial marriage in 1960s Virginia began a legal battle that would end with the Supreme Court's historic 1967 decision.
A faded country music musician is forced to reassess his dysfunctional life during a doomed romance that also inspires him.
A sexually frustrated suburban father has a mid-life crisis after becoming infatuated with his daughter's best friend.
A young woman who has been in and out of rehab for the past ten years, returns home for the weekend for her sister's wedding.
The relationship of a contemporary married couple, charting their evolution over a span of years by cross-cutting between time periods.
Competition between the maid of honor and a bridesmaid, over who is the bride's best friend, threatens to upend the life of an out-of-work pastry chef.
While on a trip to Paris with his fiancée's family, a nostalgic screenwriter finds himself mysteriously going back to the 1920s everyday at midnight.
The story of how the novel "Mrs. Dalloway" affects three generations of women, all of whom, in one way or another, have had to deal with suicide in their lives.
A widower is determined to get to the bottom of a potentially explosive secret involving his wife's murder, big business, and corporate corruption.
A look at a few chapters in the life of Poppy, a cheery, colorful, North London schoolteacher whose optimism tends to exasperate those around her.
A look at the life of Alfred Kinsey, a pioneer in the area of human sexuality research, whose 1948 publication "Sexual Behavior in the Human Male" was one of the first recorded works that saw science address sexual behavior.
The three-year romance between 19th-century poet John Keats and Fanny Brawne near the end of his life.
Life for a pair of veteran actors gets turned upside down after they meet a brash teenager.
An English professor, one year after the sudden death of his boyfriend, is unable to cope with his typical days in 1960s Los Angeles.