African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bill Gillespie, the racist police chief of tiny Sparta, Mississippi. After Tibbs proves not only his own innocence but that of another man, he joins forces with Gillespie to track down the real killer. Their investigation takes them through every social level of the town, with Tibbs making enemies as well as unlikely friends as he hunts for the truth.
An awkward, telekinetic teenage girl's lonely life is dominated by relentless bullying at school and an oppressive religious fanatic mother at home. When her tormentors pull a humiliating prank at the senior prom, she unleashes a horrifying chaos on everyone, leaving nothing but destruction in her wake.
John živi s partnerjem in hčerko v Kaliforniji, daleč od tradicionalnega podeželskega življenja, ki ga je pred leti pustil za sabo. Njegov oče Willis, trmast in nestrpen možakar iz nekega drugega časa, živi na odmaknjeni kmetiji, kjer je John odraščal. Ko sin ostarelega očeta pripelje na zahod, da bi mu poiskal nov dom v svoji bližini, drug ob drugega silovito trčita dva povsem različna svetova.
A rich but racist man is dying and hatches an elaborate scheme for transplanting his head onto another man's body. His health deteriorates rapidly, and doctors are forced to transplant his head onto the only available candidate: a black man from death row.
Four Australian soldiers become compromised when they capture a young Afghani boy spying on their reconnaissance position.