The Trigger Effect (1996)

World-weary author Fernando has returned to his native Colombia to live out his days in peace. But Fernando’s once-quiet hometown has become a hotbed of violence, drugs, and corruption. On…

Nita, a divorced mother of two boys, is stuck working as a telephone operator in a small Texas town in World War II. Her friendship with a sailor on leave…

A woman struggles to recover from a brutal attack by setting out on a mission for revenge.

Middle-aged Gerald Kingsland advertises in a London paper for a female companion to spend a year with him on a desert island. The young Lucy Irving takes a chance on…

Thirteen-year-old Sam Gribley, a devotee of Thoreau, decides to leave the city to spend a sabbatical in the Canadian woods and see if he can make it as a self-sufficient…

When a family of raccoons discover worms living underneath the sod in Jeff and Nealy’s backyard, this pest problem begins a darkly comic and wild chain reaction of domestic tension,…

A bored, retired rock star sets out to find his father’s tormentor, an ex-Nazi war criminal who is a refugee in the U.S.

Police Lt. Leonard Diamond vies to bring a clever, well connected, and sadistic gangster to justice all the while obsessing over the gangster’s girlfriend.

Anne Elliot, the daughter of a financially troubled aristocratic family, is persuaded to break her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a young sea captain of meager means. Years later, money troubles…

All but abandoned by her family in a London retirement hotel, an elderly woman strikes up a curious friendship with a young writer.

Stuck in a loveless marriage, bourgeois industrialist Francois falls in love with Janine, another man’s wife. Francois sets up Janine as his mistress, and she, mercenary soul that she is,…

Isabella, the daughter of the noble York family, is enrolled in an all-girls academy to be groomed into a dame worthy of nobility. However, she has given up on her…