mothers and sons

For a tribute to his mother, a dead rock star, fifteen-year-old Grady returns to Seattle, where he faces his mixed feelings for his retarded younger half-brother Louie while pondering his own future.

After spending time with his uncle Mike, Garth begins to keep secrets from everyone around him, but he wonders if his uncle is actually someone that Garth can really trust.

Ora, a middle-aged Israeli mother, is horrified when her son Ofer, due to be released from the service, is instead sent to the front for a major offensive, and in an effort to avoid bad news, she impulsively sets out on a hike to Galilee, taking along her former lover Avram, a recluse since his own stint in the military, and keeps Ofer very much alive by telling Avram the story of the young man's life.

Desperate to help his unemployed mother, seventeen-year-old Aiden O'Connor reluctantly begins working for the Irish mob in tough South Boston, despite his coach's efforts to convince him he could be a professional boxer.

Mary Beth Latham puts everything else aside in order to focus on her one son who suffers from severe depression, but she is not prepared for the violence that follows.

Judy Shepard shares personal stories about her son Matthew's life and death, focusing on how she and her husband chose to honor their son's legacy after he was murdered in a brutal hate crime by becoming international gay rights activists.

Jodie Larkin flees Atlanta and her housecleaning job with stolen money to look for the son she put up for adoption; and meanwhile, Wynn Johnston, a college student, is hunted by drug dealers and a police officer on the trail the shooter in a double murder case.

Karl Shoemaker, starting his senior year in Lightsburg, Ohio, in 1973, vows to break out of the therapy group he has been forced to attend during school hours and become "normal.".

Presents the script of the 1994 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama that illuminates the events of a ninety-two-year-old woman's life while she lies in a stroke-induced coma.

The son of a famous radical feminist spends his life struggling with his diverse personal relationships and with his ambition to be a writer.