Stephen Gyllenhaal

Tom Crick faces the latest in a long series of disappointments that form his life when the British teacher of history is forced into early retirement by the American high school where he works.Challenged by one of his students to make his subject relevant, as his final lecture the fraying Crick tells the history of the English marshlands known as The Fens. He spins a tale that begins before World War I and encompasses his family history, his childhood...

The harrowing true story of Victoria 'Tori' Lindsay, a stellar Florida high school student whose life begins to spiral downward after she befriends a troubled student at the school. When Tori tells the girl she can no longer hang out with her, the girl and her friends beat Tori up and post the video on the internet. Despite little help from the police or school, Tori's mother works to make the attackers pay for what they did.

Jessica Lange and Halle Berry give performances of uncommon poignancy and depth. Lange plays an adoptive mother who gives an abandoned child a new chance at life. Berry, in a remarkable portrayal heralded as her dramatic breakthrough, is the birth mother who cleans up her life and sets out to reclaim the child. Samuel L. Jackson (Pulp Fiction) portrays her firebrand attorney.