Todd Verow directs this coming-of-age drama. After being accepted into a prestigious New England art college, scholarship kids Joe (Tim Swain) & Jennifer (Julia Frey) quickly become friends. Having to work for a living in a climate dominated by wealth & priviledge, the pair soon discover more profitable ways to fund their studies: namely shoplifting, drug dealing & male prostitution. However, when Joe falls for enigmatic hustler Ramon (Gil Bar-Sela) & Jennifer gets caught up in a bad drug deal, their lives start to spin out of control. ...

Based on a qualitative study of Hungary & its changing relationship to the 3 million ethnic Hungarians in neighbouring states, this book argues that it is not the ties of ethnicity, but the political interests of kin-state elites that drives states in Eastern Europe to take action on behalf of ethnic kin in neighboring states. ...

Emotional drama follows the lives of three women living in Toronto each going through a personal crisis concerning her father. Olivia (Sophia Loren) is married to the wheelchair-bound though overbearing John (Pete Postlethwaite). Her dreams of a career in art have been quashed for years by John's impeccably practical outlook. Her dreams are given air, however, by Max (Gerard Depardieu) the eccentric French gardener. Natalia (Mira Sorvino) is a photographer whose picture of a crying child in Angola has made her famous. Her father, also a photographer is proud enough to burst but Natalia is haunted by the knowledge that she could not save the child's life. Catherine (Deborah Kara Unger) grew up watching her dad beat her mother until one day, he killed her. When he is released from prison, she's willing to throw away her stable family life for a shot at putting him in his grave at the earliest opportunity. ...

The death of an unknown American in Stockholm, though tragic, should be an open-&-shut case, a simple suicide. But when Superintendent Lars Martin Johansson begins to delve beneath the layers of corruption, incompetence & violence strangling the Stockholm police department, he uncovers a complex web of treachery, politics & espionage. ...

One of the author's works was published shortly after her death in 1941. The story takes place at Pointz Hall, the country home of the Oliver family for 120 years. Its central focus is the performance of a village pageant, written & directed by the Miss La Trobe, encompassing the whole history of England from the Middle Ages to the verge of war. ...