Dianne Wiest

When a childless couple buries a box with all of their wishes for an infant in their backyard, their wishes are granted. However, their child, Timothy Green, is not all that he appears.

Two sisters decide to throw one last house party before their parents sell their family home. "Whatever characters they're playing, Fey and Poehler can be counted on to infuse even their crassest moments with disarming likability. "Sisters" goes for broke in both directions, with winning, helplessly entertaining results."--Washington Post "It's heartening to see energetic supporting players accommodated so generously in a vehicle otherwise decisively...

An advice columnist trying to raise his daughters on his own falls in love with a woman who is dating his brother.

Becca and Howie Corbett are returning to their everyday existence in the wake of a shocking, sudden loss. Just eight months ago, they were a happy suburban family with everything they wanted. Now, they are caught in a maze of memory, longing, guilt, recrimination, sarcasm and tightly controlled rage from which they cannot escape. The journey is an intimate glimpse into two people learning to re-engage with each other and a world that has been tilted...

David Shayne is an idealistic young writer who'll do anything to get his first Broadway play off the ground -- even if it means teaming up with the mob!

A coming-of-age story about a boy growing up in Astoria, N.Y., during the 1980s. As his friends end up dead, on drugs or in prison, he comes to believe he has been saved from their fate by various so-called saints. He goes back home after fifteen years when he finds out that his father is ill. There he finds old friends, lost friends, and new relationships as he comes to term with his father's rage and love.

When a successsful actor decides to retire from the stage, the daughter of one of his acting friends moves into his house and the two develop a dysfunctional relationship.

A fatherless teen-age boy from Chicago, who likes to dance, tries to shake up his new small midwestern hometown of Bomont, which doesn't allow public dancing. Bomont's Baptist minister is a staunch supporter of the ban on public dancing, but has a "loose" teenage daughter in high school who doesn't share his views on the ban. The two teenagers develop a mutual affection for each other and fight the town's ban on dancing in order to have a high school...

A seven year old genius is caught in a tug of war between his waitress mom who only wants a regular life for him, and the head of an institute for gifted children who wants to further his development.

A man in the final stages of AIDS is cared for by his sister and mother and grandmother.