A supernatural tale set on death row in a Southern prison, where gentle giant John Coffey possesses the mysterious power to heal people's ailments. When the cell block's head guard, Paul Edgecomb, recognizes Coffey's miraculous gift, he tries desperately to help stave off the condemned man's execution.

A young Southern débutante temporarily abandons her posh lifestyle and upcoming, semi-arranged marriage to have a lustful and erotic fling with a rugged drifter who works at a local carnival.

After a singer loses his job at a coffee shop, he finds employment at a struggling carnival, but his attempted romance with a teenager leads to friction with her father.

An ex-con teams up with federal agents to help them with breaking up a moonshine ring.

A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.

A Justice of the Peace performed weddings a few days before his license was valid. A few years later five couples learn they have never been legally married.

The first manned expedition to Mars is invaded by an unknown life form, which stows away on the rescue ship.

A prisoner leads his counterparts in a protest for better living conditions which turns violent and ugly.

Brazen perpetual offender Barbara Graham tries to go straight but she finds herself implicated in a murder and sent to death row.

Struggling to retain custody of his daughter following his divorce, football coach Steve Williams finds himself embroiled in a recruiting scandal at the tiny Catholic college he is trying to bring back to football respectability.