Story of a writer who is constantly in search of the purpose of life. Reveals his life in a series of flash-backs.

An American writer and a French environmentalist who first met nine years earlier reunite in Paris and, despite the fact the man is married with children, they spend hours talking about their lives and the possibility of loving one another.

Depicts a day in the life of a family deteriorating from alcoholism, drug addiction, and imminent death. Ageing actor James Tyrone has abandoned all hope of being a great performer and has settled for being a hack. His bitter wife, Mary, has slipped into morphine addiction, while hie eldest son, Jamie, is a drunk. Jamie is envious of the writing talent of his younger brother, Edmund. These four haunted lives are about to clash.

Lord Peter Wimsey defends a young mystery writer (Harriet Vane) on trial for her lover's murder.

Upon her mother's death, an estranged teenager returns to her family home in New Orleans only to find the house occupied by two of her mother's friends - a former literature professor and his protegé. The three tenants struggle with themselves and each other in a makeshift living arrangement, but over time find common ground.

A reclusive white Pulitzer Prize winning author and a sixteen-year-old African-American basketball player with a secret passion for literature meet by chance and form an unlikely friendship.