Paul Dano

After an overnight long-distance drive, Joby has a special meeting—with lawyers and his ex-wife. A struggling musician with the prerequisite tattoos, slimy hair, goatee, and his head firmly floating in the clouds, Joby hasn’t been around to be a dad. Now is his last chance to fight for shared custody of his daughter, Ellen.

Jacques is the curmudgeonly owner of a gritty New York dive bar that serves as home to a motley assortment of professional drinkers. Jacques is determinedly drinking and smoking himself to death when he meets Lucas, a homeless young man who has already given up on life. Determined to keep his legacy alive, Jacques deems Lucas is a fitting heir ...

A motiveless malignancy? Elvis leaves the Navy and heads for Texas where he contacts his father, whom he's never met, the pastor at a Christian community church. Pastor Dave tells Elvis to stay away and, without telling his family that Elvis is his son from a pre-conversion liaison, tells them to have nothing to do with him. But Elvis has ...

William Hundert is a passionate and principled Classics professor who finds his tightly-controlled world shaken and inexorably altered when a new student, Sedgewick Bell, walks into his classroom. What begins as a fierce battle of wills gives way to a close student-teacher relationship, but results in a life lesson for Hundert that will still haunt him a quarter of a ...

With his mother dead and his father busy at work, Howie feels adrift in his New York suburb. He and his friend Gary spend their time burglarizing their neighbors' homes — until they make the mistake of robbing the house of Big John, a macho former Marine who is also an unrepentant pedophile. He propositions Howie, who declines, but the ...

Βασισμένο σε μια απίστευτη αληθινή ιστορία ενός ανθρώπου που πάλεψε για την επιβίωση και την ελευθερία του. Στις Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες πριν από τον Εμφύλιο Πόλεμο, ο Σόλομον Νόρθαπ, ένας ελεύθερος μαύρος από την πολιτεία της Νέας Υόρκης, απάγεται και πωλείται ως σκλάβος. Αντιμετωπίζοντας τη σκληρότητα του ιδιοκτήτη σκλάβων καθώς και απρόσμενη καλοσύνη, ο Σόλομον αγωνίζεται όχι μόνο για να μείνει ...