Against the Wind

Pursued by creditors and the SEC, a disgraced Wall St. money manager flees a mortgage meltdown on the only thing he has left -- his bicycle -- for the small California town of his birth, on the way meeting the human cost of his profligacy.

The Mayor of Alamogordo

A TV repairman and notary public in New Mexico discovers that he's a Martian, born after a crash-landing, when he receives a message from Mars. Backed by an alien constituency -- legal, terrestrial, and otherwise -- he battles xenophobia and forced repatriation to run for Mayor of Alamogordo, on a platform of amnesty and cold fusion for all.

Lame Duck

A conservative Congressman, outed as a homosexual after an ill-conceived assignation in a public restroom, is violently rebuked by his constituents, his friends, and even his wife. Out of a home, and soon to be out of a job, he turns for understanding to the only family left to him: his children, now adult, and living far away, whose youngest years he sacrificed to his career.

Albert in Twilight

A disgraced Administration official resigns and returns to private life, but his idyll is shattered when a snooping journalist uncovers documents he thought had been destroyed. If he can't cover his tracks in time, can he buy his privacy with a bigger story?

Life of Reilly

A handyman hooks a movie star client, and then her friends, but the celebrity lifestyle is one of discipline and hard work, instead of the debauchery he expects. Can he keep the pace without falling victim to his bad habits?

As I Like It

A progressive theater director's plan to marry the heroine Rosalind to the lusty shepherdess in a production of Shakespeare's "As You Like It" is aided, then thwarted, when the actresses in the roles fall in and out of love in real life.

The Kingdom by the Sea

A Manhattan billionaire and his entourage proclaim a small Long Island town his kingdom, and secede from the Union, leaving the residents torn between subservient prosperity and proud ruin.

On the Road Again

A grizzled long-haul trucker confronts his reckless past when he picks up a dangerous hitchhiker -- the daughter he didn't know he had -- and helps her track down and take revenge on the man who stole her innocence.

Semper Fry

A Marine Corps fuck-up, consigned to kitchen patrol, brokers a fragile peace in a small Iraqi town on the strength of his irresistible French fries.

My Name is Achilles

A high school football quarterback falls though a wormhole into the Trojan War, to find himself mistaken for a hero in the Greek camp, and expected to defeat their enemy's most feared soldier.