Short Cuts

Doreen and Earl are an unhappy, blue collar couple in their forties. They live in a small trailer-type house in a bad section of Los Angeles. Doreen works at a diner as a waitress. Earl works a string of dead-end jobs, his current one being a limo driver. She’s just had a close brush with […]

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Short Cuts

Ralph and Marian are married. He is a doctor, she is a painter; they have a “nice” life in a comfortable home in Los Angeles, but their relationship is distant and lacks intimacy and compassion. They’re expecting guests for dinner, people they barely know. Yesterday, Ralph walked in on Marian painting her sister Sherri nude […]

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Sea of Love

Frank and Denice work at the same police precinct. They are divorced, and Denice has remarried Frank’s partner, Gruber. Frank drinks too much and lately has been going through a bad time; he’s been calling Denice at home at all hours, drunk. Denice has moved on, but Frank is stuck in his lonely life. Here […]

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Out of Africa

Out of Africa is based on the memoirs of Karen Von Blixen, who moved to Kenya from her native Denmark and eventually ran a farm in Africa on her own. Her husband mostly absent, eventually gone altogether, Karen has an affair with Denys, an adventurer who can’t be tied down. He “lives with” her – […]

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Outbreak

Robby and Sam used to be married. They also used to work together fighting rare infectious diseases. Now there has been an outbreak of ebola in Zaire; Sam has been there working. He has asked Robby to stay with the dogs. But she was supposed to leave for her new job in Atlanta at the […]

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