Wit (2001)

A man joins the political campaign of a smooth-operator candidate for president of the USA.

A recent widow who is determined to leave Scotland for Australia with her son gets an unexpected visit from her aging mother.

Jack McKee is a doctor with it all: he's successful, he's rich, and he has no problems.... until he is diagnosed with throat cancer. Now that he has seen medicine, hospitals, and doctors ... See full summary »

A London publisher recounts a lunchtime reunion with a former lover, in poetic monologue.

The platonic relationship between artist Dora Carrington and writer Lytton Strachey in the early 20th century.

The story of Karen Silkwood, a metallurgy worker at a plutonium processing plant who was purposefully contaminated, psychologically tortured and possibly murdered to prevent her from exposing blatant worker safety violations at the plant.

Playwright Tony Kushner adapts his political epic about the AIDS crisis during the mid-eighties, around a group of separate but connected individuals.

A highly-evolved planet, whose denizens feel no emotion and reproduce by cloning, plans to take over Earth from the inside by sending an operative, fashioned with a humming, mechanical ... See full summary »

Substance-addicted Hollywood actress Suzanne Vale is on the skids. After a spell at a detox centre her film company insists as a condition of continuing to employ her that she live with her... See full summary »

In London for his daughter's wedding, a rumpled man finds his romantic spirits lifted by a new woman in his life.

A businessman thwarts his wife's bequest of an estate to another woman.

An autobiographical look at the breakup of Ephron's marriage to Carl "All the President's Men" Bernstein that was also a best-selling novel. The Ephron character, Rachel is a food writer at... See full summary »