Scott Teller's life is turned upside down when he
meets Ryan and Mary, a seemingly perfect couple who move into his apartment and
his life. He quickly becomes their third wheel. But when Scott meets the girl
of his dreams in Leslie he believes that Ryan and Mary are intentionally
sabotaging his chances with her because they desperately need him in their life
to hold their dysfunctional relationship together.
The true and inspiring survival story of a teen
horrifically kidnapped, how she manipulates her deranged captor, leaves clues,
stays witty in her own mind to control her fear, engineers then ultimately
negotiates her safe rescue after enduring six and a half days of hell.
A popular high school girl is harassed by a
delinquent boy until they are placed in creative writing class together.
Through written words, they create a bond, but tragically a bond that cannot withstand
her social pressures or his brutal home life.
In Providence, a husband and wife die in a botched
robbery; we see flickers of his last memories. His heart goes to Terry Bernard,
a single father raising a girl with a rare degenerative disease. After the
operation, Terry has flashes of memory from the last moments of the dead
donor's life. Then, he recognizes one of the donor's killers and follows him
into an alley. Within days, Terry becomes an unwilling avenger, with a police
detective on his trail. Meanwhile, he begins a romance with his daughter's
doctor, his moods complicated by memory flashes, the donor's deepening presence
in both Terry's mind and body, and the unexplained bond among the donor's
killers. Can this end well?
At a New England college, Charlie Thurber is a good
teacher without publications. His tenure review is in three months, and he's
trying to get an article in print. Out of the blue, the dean announces that a
new assistant professor will join them, a scholarly young woman from Yale.
Charlie now faces competition. His best friend Jay, an anthropologist looking
for Sasquatch, urges Charlie to declare war on the new colleague. He gives in
to his better judgment and goes along. Meanwhile, his father hates the local
assisted living facility where he lives, Charlie tries to connect with a woman
he sees on television, and one of his students makes a pass. Is tenure in the
works?
