Unemployed Russian poet Pyotr Voyd arrested by KGB during the 1991 Soviet August Coup, by tortures he loses consciousness and appears in 1919 post-revolutionary Russia, where he fights on the same side with the legendary Red cavalry commander Chapaev and his machine-gunner Anka. The strange memory lapses all the time throw him to the bandits' Moscow of nineties, then to the Russian Civil War back and forth, again and again. Pyotr learns how long may raging two winds of changes simultaneously in the head of one and the same person.
When VanBallenberghe turned thirty-six, he realized that he had been addicted to gambling for a third of his life. He decided to end the problem once and for all. His approach to recovery was two-fold: enter into psychotherapy, and make a documentary about the experience. Lapse is a personal documentary that portrays the fractured state of mind of a person in the grip of a gambling addiction. All of the dialogue in Lapse is taken from psychotherapy sessions that the director recorded.
Wine, un jeune homme au physique angélique, rencontre par hasard un garçon de son âge qui se révèle totalement amnésique. Un lien particulier se noue entre eux lorsque Wine s'aperçoit de la nature de l'inconnu : ce dernier est une créature de la nuit, assoiffée de sang et mise au supplice par le manque. Wine finit par le laisser assouvir sa soif sur lui, franchissant du même coup le point de non retour.
Thora Birch stars as Liz Murray, one of two daughters of an extremely dysfunctional Bronx family. As a young girl, Murray lives with her sister, their drug-addicted, schizophrenic mother and their father, also a drug addict who is intelligent, but has AIDS, lacks social skills, and is not conscientious. She is removed from the home and put into the care system as her father cannot take care of her. At 15 she moves in with her mother, sister and Grandfather who sexually abused her mother. After a run-in with her Grandfather she runs away with a girl from school who is being abused at home. After her mother Jean Murray (1954-1996) dies of AIDS, which she got from sharing needles during her drug abuse, she gets a 'slap in the face' by her mother's death and begins her work to finish high school, which she amazingly completed in two years, rather than the usual four. She becomes a star student and earns a scholarship to Harvard University through an essay contest sponsored by The New York Times.
In a flashback, a single mother, Corrine Morgan-Thomas (Mary-Louise Parker) drives her seven-year-old twin boys Steven (Jake Cherry) and Philip (Jeremy Shada) to the doctor's office and learns that they have autism. Philip simply repeats what he hears others say, a condition known as echolalia, while Steven is completely nonverbal. After leaving the clinic in a very upset mood, she takes the boys shopping for groceries. Her visit to the supermarket is not a pleasant one, as her two boys begin screaming throughout the store and Steven wets himself, causing others to stare at them. Upon learning about their condition, her live-in boyfriend leaves because he knows raising twins with a mental disability will be difficult.
On April's fourteenth birthday, Marion, her adoptive mother, gives her earrings, not the mobile phone she wanted. They argue, and April leaves for school. After lying to her friends, claiming she has a phone and is going to the dentist's, April chooses to play truant. While at work at a stately home, Marion hears that April has not arrived at school. She talks to her friend and colleague Elliot, who unsuccessfully tries to dissuade her from leaving. April visits the home of Pat Williams, who cared for her as a baby. Pat remembers April and gives her a newspaper cutting telling the story of her discovery as a baby in a dustbin behind a pizza parlour. In a flashback, a young April is seen living with Janet and Daniel Johnson. The Johnsons' relationship is an abusive one, leading to Janet's suicide. Meanwhile, Marion goes to April's school, where she talks to April's friends, and realises that they were lied to. April then leaves Pat's home, and travels alone to Janet's grave. Marion continues to search, and, in a shopping centre, meets Elliot, who has joined her. April then visits the now abandoned Sunnyholme Children's Home, where she lived when she was younger. In a flashback, an eight-year old April lives at the Sunnyholme. Cared for by a woman named Mo, April befriends an older girl called Gina and is introduced to Pearl, a girl of her age. Pearl behaves in front of Mo, but actually bullies April. Gina wakes April one night to involve her in a burglary, and, later, Pearl attacks April, holding her head under water, and then tears up April's beloved paper dolls. April confronts Pearl, who she pushes down a flight of stairs, and is reprimanded by Mo. A voice-over from 14-year-old April says Gina was then "moved on", and, eventually, April is also moved on.
Le chirurgien Thomas Reiter fuit après la mort d'un jeune patient, dont il se sent coupable, dans un monde imaginaire où tout est possible. Il est un cow-boy dans le Far West, où il y a des limites claires entre le bien et le mal et la vie n'est pas complexe. Il cavale en hors-la-loi à travers la prairie, sauve les femmes de leurs maris brutaux, braque les banques et se laisse aller.
Hélène Nicolas est très tôt diagnostiquée « autiste déficitaire ». Elle est silencieuse jusqu'à l'adolescence. Sa mère décide alors de se consacrer à elle. Et elle découvre à son adolescence, qu'Hélène sait lire et écrire. Commence alors pour Babouillec, le nom de plume d'Hélène Nicolas, une carrière d'écrivain qui révèle tout son talent…
The first female U.S. President, Sally Sheridan, (Mimi Kuzyk) is killed by a sniper during her Veterans Day speech. Her assassin narrowly escapes after a shoot out involving a shadowy figure named La Mangouste (Val Kilmer) or "The Mongoose". Three months later in West Virginia, an elderly couple discover a young man (Stephen Dorff) who lies wounded in a tree and still in his parachute. He cannot remember his past and the only clue to his identity is a numerical tattoo on his chest, "XIII".
During routine administration at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Dr. Rhodes discovers that a comet has suddenly veered off its orbit and smashed into Mars. The explosion causes debris to travel towards Earth with the possibility of causing an extinction level event. At Ben Marshall's house, Ben refuses to give his son, Leo, a ride as he complained his own car smelled of mildew. However, Ben drives Leo to school and discovers Leo is in love with a fellow student, Lindsey. Leo is chatting with Lindsey when her ex-boyfriend, Sean, gives them threatening looks.
Mathilde est une petite fille d'une neuf ans qui vit seule avec sa mère, elle s'entretient cependant fréquemment au téléphone avec son père avec qui elle cultive une tendre complicité. Ce dernier n'a pas la garde de l'enfant pour des raisons obscures, d'autant plus que la mère est atteinte d'une douce folie que Mathilde doit gérer au jour le jour.
Constance, agente immobilier au chômage à Paris, retourne dans sa ville natale pour essayer d'obtenir un emploi dans l'agence où elle a commencé sa carrière. Bien que Constance soit soutenue par un ancien collègue, une jeune concurrente, Audrey, obtient le poste à pourvoir à sa place. Dès lors, considérant subir une injustice et mériter l'emploi, Constance va tout faire pour écarter Audrey et récupérer son poste.