The Ides of March, they are come. As Caesar’s power grows with the people, so do the jealousy of those closest. Brutus - the closest friend and confidante to Caesar - joins a conspiracy formed by Cassius to assassinate Caesar and save Rome from tyranny. But power coveted does not equal power gained, and violence begets violence.

Chicklet Forrest, a teenage tomboy, desperately wants to be part of the surf crowd on Malibu Beach in 1962. One thing getting in her way is her unfortunate tendency towards split personalities.Her most dangerous alter ego is a sexually voracious vixen named Ann Bowman who has nothing less than world domination on her mind.

Marjorie is home alone when Raul enters through her unlocked door and attempts to attack and rape her. The tables turn when Marjorie is able to subdue Raul and keep him tied up in her fireplace. When Terry and Patricia, Marjorie's roommates, come home, they are shocked and begin discussing how to handle the situation: call the police or take matters into their own hands?

Between her 21 children, her useless husband, and that whiney Tiny Tim, Mrs. Cratchit has had enough. The Ghost of Christmas Past tries to show Scrooge his past, present and future, but her magic keeps malfunctioning, and she and Scrooge keep appearing at the Cratchit’s pathetic home. And to make matters worse, Scrooge and Mrs. Bob seem to be kindred souls falling in love.

Hard-working Daphne left her two young daughters in Jamaica for six years to create a better life for them in America. Now, 30 years later, Daphne is relying on church and her nearby dutiful daughter to face a health crisis. But when feisty activist Claudette arrives unexpectedly to help out, her arrival stirs up the buried past, and the burning desire for unconditional love before it’s too late.

A playground altercation between eleven-year-old boys brings together two sets of Brooklyn parents for a meeting to resolve the matter. At first, diplomatic niceties are observed, but as the meeting progresses, and the rum flows, tensions emerge and the gloves come off, leaving the couples with more than just their liberal principles in tatters.

Carrie White is a teenage outcast who longs to fit in. At school, she’s bullied by the popular crowd, and virtually invisible to everyone else. At home, she's dominated by her loving but cruelly controlling mother. What none of them know is that Carrie’s just discovered she’s got a special power, and if pushed too far, she’s not afraid to use it.

Gordon collapses into his lunch and awakes in the hospital, surrounded by his maritime-enthusiast lover, his mother, a co-worker, the doctor, and the nurses. Reluctantly, he had been composing a song for a children’s television show that features a frog – Mr. Bungee – and the specter of this large green character and the unfinished work haunts him throughout his medical ordeal.

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