A pair of sisters find out that the mother they thought was dead is alive and starring on a soap opera.

A modern take on The Wizard of Oz about a young woman trying to find her way home after tragedy. Mimi's life has flipped upside down. She's gone from happy wife to heartbroken widow and mixed-up mistress, while only in her early thirties. She's determined to find her way back to a happy life. Mimi's journey kicks off on Fire Island.

When their father passes away, four grown, world-weary siblings return to their childhood home and are requested -- with an admonition -- to stay there together for a week, along with their free-speaking mother and a collection of spouses, exes and might-have-beens. As the brothers and sisters re-examine their shared history and the status of each tattered relationship among those who know and love them best, they reconnect in hysterically funny and emotionally significant ways.

Recently released from prison, Beth is working with her public defender to get her son back from her sister, who was awarded legal custody while Beth was incarcerated for ten years. Soon after, Beth forms an unlikely alliance with Jess, an idealistic young protégé of the public defense team, who decides to take on Beth's cause whether she likes it or not.

On the south shore of Long Island in the summer of 1982, a group of working-class teenagers and 20-somethings work their summer jobs, fall in and out of love, and wrestle with what the future holds when the summer ends and the real world beckons.

What goes through the mind of a serial killer as he meticulously plots his crimes, researching his victims and entrapping them while they are none the wiser?

Tommy, a "spiritual", insecure and unemployed writer, falls prey to an Indian infomercial and makes silly and superstitious attempts to hypnotize his workaholic girlfriend, Cara, back into loving him.