Captures a generational moment - young people on the cusp of truly growing up, tiring of their reflexive cynicism, each in their own ways struggling to connect and define what it means to love and be loved. Six New Yorkers juggle love, friendship, and the keenly challenging specter of adulthood. Sam Wexler is a struggling writer who's having a particularly bad day. When a young boy gets separated from his family on the subway, Sam makes the questionable decision to bring the child back to his apartment and thus begins a rewarding, yet complicated, friendship. Sam's life revolves around his friends — Annie, whose self-image keeps her from commitment; Charlie and Mary Catherine, a couple whose possible move to Los Angeles tests their relationship; and Mississippi, a cabaret singer who catches Sam's eye.
FROM OTHER WORLDS is a sci-fi comedy about a depressed Brooklyn housewife who sleepwalks through her life until she encounters an alien force in her backyard. With the help of a fellow contactee, an African immigrant, she is determined to solve the mystery of her otherworldly experiences. Along the way, she finds romance, saves the planet and finds new meaning in her life.
Teenager struggles with his family roots and his own identity.
Financial TV host Lee Gates and his producer Patty are put in an extreme situation when an irate investor takes over their studio.
Hardened by years in foster care, a teenage girl from Brooklyn’s Brownsville neighborhood decides that wrestling boys is the only way back to her estranged father.
A former marine suffering from severe PTSD prepares his family for war as the deadline for an alien invasion approaches.
Peter, a frustrated suburban teenager, prefers to hang out by the railroad tracks with his friends and get rid of boredom. When the young men throw the switch one day just for fun, a catastrophe of unimaginable proportions occurs. A train derails and Peter is found guilty of murder. In a maximum security prison, the teenager meets brutal felons who make his life hell through threats and physical violence ...
Though the mother of the Mulberry children tries to keep her family away from the destruction and violence of street life, one by one, the children are all sucked in. When youngest daughter falls for a violent drug dealer, it's all the mother can do to hold her family together.
Young Chris' (Frantz St. Louis) street debts result in the murder of his father by a dangerous thug, who is subsequently jailed. When the thug is released, Chris plans a bank heist to pay off his debts, but his plan quickly goes dangerously awry.
Iris and Isaac's first weekend away as a couple is going so well — until Isaac mentions he didn’t know they were a couple. Convinced she's met her perfect guy and that he's just confused, Iris goes to increasingly ridiculous and irrational lengths to prove to Isaac that they are meant to be together.
In efforts to try and fit in with his new classmates, Wesley decides to join a couple of them on a night out that leads to a crime that may change the course of his life.