As Tolstoy asserted, every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. This unhappy family has never confronted its unhappiness: Sweetie, so called since childhood, the apple of her father Bob's eye and the bane of her mother Flo's smothered existence. Her sister Kay is shy, superstitious, and sexually repressed where Sweetie is loud, slovenly, and quite possibly mentally ill. The family has managed to lead relatively normal lives by denying their bizarre...

Seventeen-year-old Ree Dolly sets out to track down her father who put their house up for his bail bond and then disappeared. If she fails to find him, she and her family will be turned out into the Ozark woods. Challenging her outlaw kin's code of silence and risking her life, Ree hacks through the lies, evasions, and threats offered up by her relatives and begins to piece together the truth.

Claire Smythson, wife of the famous abstract artist Richard Smythson, is plunged into a late-life crisis when her husband is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and is in danger of not completing the paintings for his last show.

Two brothers growing up in Montana at the beginning of the century learn fly fishing as if it were a religion. They both grow up to be writers, but one meets with an early, tragic end.

The comedy adventures of a working class family in the misfit city of Springfield.

New York City 1979. Nick Martin, is a young tough guy from Sunnyside, Queens. He aspires to move his mother and two brothers to a better way of life, but he's entangled in the politics of the street as the leader of the Nightcrawlers gang. When vendors at a local carnival swindle Sunnyside residents, the Nightcrawlers join forces with rival hooligans, the Warlocks and the Deathmakers, to rob the amusement park. But when violence erupts, Nick is forced...

Truman Gates, a cop from Appalachia, hunts for his brother's killers in Chicago.

A year after his disastrous writing debut, young author Fenton Dillane returns to his hometown, New York City, with the hope of winning back the love of his life, Jesse, and to make up with his estranged parents. Instead, he finds his father embroiled in a scandal involving lobsters and coeds, his mother buying drugs from his best friend, and Jesse engaged to marry someone else.

Lynn and her three youngest children attend the wedding of her estranged eldest son at her parents' Annapolis estate. Though she is hoping for a joyful reunion, her attempts at reconciliation veer quickly off-course when she is hurled into the center of touchy family dynamics.

A young woman is forced leave behind her priviliged rural lifestyle when her father moves the family to a northern working class town.