Local Color

A young man turns from drug addiction and petty crime to a life redeemed by a discovery of compassion.

Leelee Sobieski is brash, abrasive and vulnerable as a teenage child of divorce who hides her pain behind a mask of hard-edged gothic rebellion....

As children, the introverted Smile was being bullied by a gang of kids until the brash Peco comes by and chases all of them them away. Peco then...

A look at the bond between an illegal immigrant and a blue-collar Italian-American from Queens.

Thirteen years after the end of the Vietnam War, a family who was tragically affected by the war are forced to emigrate to America.

It’s Christmastime and the far-flung members of the Rodriguez family are converging at their parents’ home in Chicago to celebrate the...

Lucas just lost his father and everything around him is starting to crumble. One day he meets Alvaro, who offers him money in exchange for some...

Victor, a Lower East Side teenager, as he deals with his eccentric family, including his strict grandmother, his bratty sister, and a younger brother...

An unemployed Cowboy who can't find love vows to stay on a barstool for three months. Shortly thereafter, he meets a young female art student and...

A wealthy out-of-towner hires an indigent man to abduct an estranged family member.

A shallow, provincial wife finds her relationship with her preoccupied husband strained by romantic notions of love, leading her further towards...

Writer Harry Block draws inspiration from people he knows, and from events that happened to him, sometimes causing these people to become alienated...