
Summer’s End (2000)
12-year-old boy and his older brother have just lost their dad. At their summer cottage, the younger boy befriends a black doctor who has to deal with local prejudice and racism.
Director: Helen Shaver
Actors: Brendan Fletcher, Jake LeDoux, James Earl Jones, Wendy Crewson
Short Cuts (1993)
Many loosely connected characters cross paths in this film, based on the stories of Raymond Carver. Waitress Doreen Piggot accidentally runs into a boy with her car. Soon after walking…
The Brooke Ellison Story (2004)
Rendered a quadriplegic since a child from a near-fatal neck injury, a young girl fights against all odds to succeed in life from grade school to her acceptance into college…
A Place for Annie (1994)
Baby Annie is HIV positive and has been left in the clinic by her drug addicted mother. To prevent that she’s deported to a home where they’d just wait for…
Lorenzo’s Oil (1992)
Lorenzo Odone was a normal child until the age of 7. After then, strange things began to happen to him: he would have blackouts, memory lapses, and other strange mental…