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Stranded in the desert on their way to a chaotic family holiday, a recently separated couple must navigate old sparks, unresolved baggage, and each other - one breakdown at a time.
The Gotaways
When a rising showrunner's hit series is abruptly canceled, she's dragged back to her quirky small hometown, where past loves, old friendships, and unexpected chaos turn her life-and her heart-completely upside down.
Nothing, Then Everything
During a snowlit holiday season, a grieving musician begins to rebuild her life with someone new — until the sudden return of the man she once loved forces her to confront her past and decide if she can risk love again.
Louies Speakeasy
louies Speakeasy is a love, crime drama, story that pits 2 friends that owns speakeasies and their competition for the love of a provocative jazz singer that has become the main draw for their nightclubs during prohibition.
Between the Salt and the Sky
A small Portuguese fishing village in 1942 is on the edge of a war that seems far away.
Undue Influence
An unscrupulous and money hungry debt collector is forced to make hard choices when she becomes the target of a wrongful death law suit.
BUMPED
A deeply troubled man with little hope in life, is thrust into a world between life and death, which may provide the purpose he has long been searching for.
FORBIDDEN PROVISIONS
A journalist goes undercover as an illegal migrant to get a story on how well the government is treating captured immigrants, only to uncover something grizzlier than he expected.
A HAPPY LIFE
A gentle, autistic man with a gift for communication with pelicans and talking smiley-face balloons reaches a breaking point when a houseful of freeloaders consumes his life—and his lifelong dream of opening a one-of-a-kind bed and breakfast—forcing him to attempt the only escape he can imagine: faking his own death.
Yrrem Samtsirhc from Mars
A gentle, highly intelligent alien crash-lands in a small town just before Christmas and forms an unlikely friendship with a girl with Down syndrome.
