Are You from Dixie?

Leo and Angela Russo live a simple life in Queens, surrounded by their overbearing Italian-American family. When their son finds success on his high school basketball team, Leo tears the family apart trying to make it happen.

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

A 16-year-old girl takes her parents hostage after they miss her big jump-roping competition.

Nathan Flomm, in order to avoid the humiliation of having missed out on a hugely successful business, assumes a new identity on Martha's Vineyard. He plots revenge when his former business partner moves to the same town.