It's the big day of the oral presentations in Sam's fourth grade social studies class, and he has five minutes to come up with something to say.

A young and idealistic single mother collects recyclable bottles from the streets of New York City to stay afloat, as she tries to wrangle her 2-year-old daughter and 90-year-old dog.

Two girls from Austin are driven by one's brother to New Orleans, and make a movie along the way.

Urban legend has it that a Nevada reservoir is a time portal--the tease of which is enough to keep life exciting for the Crop, an aimless but spirited group of teenage best friends living in the nearby city of Sparks--enough, that is, until Cleo moves to town hell-bent on reaching 1960s Paris.