The Burning Plain (2008)

A dramatization of Lori Petty's teenage years spent in small town Iowa.

April (age 15) is running from one bad situation into another, hoping to find an answer that doesn't involve nudity, and falls in with a group of confused kids chasing their dreams. The black widow in the web is the sexy, pot-dealing Sally.

The drama follows a twelve-year-old girl's struggle to come to terms with her mother's abandonment.

The daughter of once famous actress faces with her mother's dark past.

A troubled husband and executive adopts a beaver hand-puppet as his sole means of communication.

From the roaring 1920s to the ruinous Spanish Civil War and Adolf Hitler's rise into power, the lives of an Irish schoolteacher, a provocative heiress and her Spanish muse are intricately interlaced, sharing the same destiny and passion.

An unflinching Ozark Mountain girl hacks through dangerous social terrain as she hunts down her drug-dealing father while trying to keep her family intact.

Activists arrive in Seattle, Washington en masse to protest a meeting of the World Trade Organization. Riots and chaos ensue as demonstrators successfully stop the WTO meetings.

A fictionalized account of the first major successful sexual harassment case in the United States, Jenson vs. Eveleth Mines, where a woman who endured a range of abuse while working as a miner filed and won the landmark 1984 lawsuit.

A British college student falls for an American student, only to be separated from him when she's banned from the U.S. after overstaying her visa.

The Jennings' fight for their daughters life after she is kidnapped by an experienced gang of thieves.

In Depression-era North Carolina, the future of George Pemberton's timber empire becomes complicated when he marries Serena.