Synopsis: Tommy and his three stepbrothers live like kings in their early thirties, but never finished High School. Their stepfather, Jack Chase, is Boston's most powerful crime lord. The four boys were born to fight, to kill. Together, they are Jack's top negotiators. Pulling the trigger without so much of a blink of an eye is what gets the job done. When one brother runs into trouble with the police, and another gets beaten mercilessly, the boys turn to Tommy and Jack for guidance. Before it's too late, they realize that their situation wasn't coincidental at all, but the works of an old friend. A betrayed friend who's craving revenge and payback that's ten years overdue.
Synopsis: May's dream for a "normal life" is torn apart when daughter Lee comes out as a lesbian and is thrown out of the home by May's alcoholic husband Bert. Middle child Fiona is barren and suicidal. Years later, youngest son Gary comes out as gay giving May one more chance to confront her internalized homophobia. May redefines "normal" when Bert dies and her life-long friend Etta, who has been in love with her since childhood, invites May to return to the intimate relationship they began in college.
Synopsis: On the way to their graduation, STEVEN (18) and SEAN (18), witness a drunk driver crash into their adoptive PARENTS' vehicle. Steven struggles to understand why God has dealt him with the heavy hand of taking them away. From that day forward, a MAN in a black suit mysteriously shadows Steven's life. Now, all alone on his family's 88 acre estate, Steven, unclear of his destiny, wallows in misery, while from time to time, has recurring visions of a GOLDEN SUNFLOWER and a young SOMALI BOY. Meanwhile, half a world away, ELIZABETH (23), an alluring, French supermodel lives the cliche life of a model, as she indulges in substance abuse. From a loving family who own a vineyard in a small village outside of Paris, she gradually slips away until she endures her own tragedy. She too, will witness the same recurring visions as Steven.
Synopsis: An association of businesses breach an incentive contract with an in-house consultant and hire a prestigious law firm to use money and influence within a legal fraternity to defend against a civil law suit involving millions of dollars. The conspiracy expands to include seventeen members of the Missouri Bar Association plus seven state and federal judges assisted by a corrupt federal prosecutor.
Synopsis: Kazredlaw is the story of the tumultuous relationships of a twenty two year old. Andrews, the protagonist of the script, is convinced that his past relationship failures are much more than what is on the surface. He is convinced that he possess a purpose that is to change the people around him. This feeling leads him to write his two week notice, however not to an employer, but to God. This letter propels the story that looks closer at the life of Andrews. In the end, the reader will be left with a choice to make: believe in Andrews theories about his purpose, or to interpret them as a way to cope with his failed romances.
Synopsis: As the enormity of the attack unfolds, Jeff Scarborough, NBC's first cameraman on scene, immediately takes over, making decisions and taking actions that result in saving lives. At the tip of the NBC spear, he directs the other responding crews to stay safely back, periously remaining the lone live camera at Ground Zero. He is there for the jumpers, both collapses, explosions, and ensuing aftermath. Live when the first collapse happens, he is feared dead at NBC. Running from the debris cloud, Jeff rescues his TV truck operator, then nearly passes out as it hits. He videotapes the second collapse; then police gunshots erupt behind him as the debris cloud hits, sucking the air out. Found wandering out of the dust clouds by a NBC crew, Jeff is struggling to breathe, covered with dust, and in shock. Through more building collapses and explosions, he returns to NBC, where he receives a hero's welcome, medical attention, and is interviewed. He later receives a 9-11 award from WNBC.
Synopsis: Shay does her best to blend into the domain of the social elite and finds guidance from an improbable source--Mrs. Hunt's sole heir and mentally challenged granddaughter, Chia. Shay forges a bond with Chia and tries to save her from Mrs. Hunt's ironfisted grooming and tyrannical clutches. Shay discovers the prestige of living at 834 Fifth Avenue comes with a price--a monthly maintenance charge of almost $10,000. Desperately in need of money, Shay becomes a real estate agent and works evenings as a receptionist at Metropolitan, Manhattan's most prestigious escort agency. Shay recognizes the advantages of having access to the dark secrets of some of NYC's most prominent and brazenly blackmails certain corrupt clients into giving her exclusives to sell their apartment. The competitive realm of real estate, and the viperous game of one-upmanship with Mrs. Hunt, sets Shay down a slippery slope as she serves her own form of justice against the nefarious and abusers of power.
Synopsis: Can having it all, ever become a burden too large to bare? It has for Oscar Thomas Lansing the third. Opting for a life of his own, he enrages an extremely wealthy, overbearing, and cold father. Feeling he has completed his final obligation by becoming an attorney, his fate is sealed by refusing to practice and handle the family's vast fortune. Now disinherited, Oscar is forced to survive on few resources and fewer life skills. In a world once fed upon a silver platter, he ventures now on to a path of fateful twists and turns, near death experiences, highly unlikely relationships, and resolution of years old crime. WGA NO. R04786-00
Synopsis: Terra Bella is Catcher in the Rye meets Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. It is the coming of age story of Tom Barber, a self proclaimed 'ghost' in the world, who is living a purposely anonymous life as the driver for a call girl service. A man who has a dramatic, painful past and an active imagination that teeters between amusing, bizarre and hallucinatory. As a child Tom has dream that his parents were from another planet and that he was mistakenly implanted in a human woman's womb on earth. Abandoned by his Jehovah's Witness mother, and alienated by his drug dealer father, Young Tom comes to believe that his real parents will one day return from outer space to rescue him. The memories of his life, both good and bad, are played out in an orbital structure that slips and slides poignantly through time. We are riveted between past and present, imagination and reality as Tom struggles to connect the events of his past to realities of his present.
Synopsis: The series is about a family of Jewish immigrants who flee Russia in the hopes of finding a better life in America. In the first season, the smart and determined and Katya struggles to become a doctor in her homeland, Russia, but her aspirations are quickly dashed because she’s Jewish. As life in Russia becomes more difficult, the family faces food shortages and violent religious persecution, Felix secretly listens to the highly forbidden Voice of America and Katya’s father (the only Jewish pilot at the Minsk airbase) crashes his plane, has a near-death experience, and develops extraordinary healing powers. Meanwhile, the family decides that the best way for them to survive is to leave Russia and come to America. There, Katya enrolls in med school, but as soon as she does, she discovers she’s pregnant and her family forces her to have an abortion. But on the eve of her appointment, her unborn child appears in a dream and reveals the reason she must be born.