Kirk Harris

Abner is trapped in the rough life of Mexico City. His escape? Boxing. Dr. Frank Irwin (Martin Sheen) and his son Jimmy, a pro boxer, come together to teach Abner that the heart fuels the punches we throw in life.

Dorian Shanley, is a heart surgeon who abuses alcohol and drugs. Dorian trades stolen pharmaceuticals for cocaine , provided by his best friend and enabler, Teddy. While Dorian's life and career take a nosedive, Shanley numbs the pain of losing his father, William Shanley, to a form of Alzheimer's common in prizefighters. To further complicate circumstances, Dorian falls in love with his girlfriend's best friend from college, Anna. The film follows Shanley through a maze of pharmacies, clubs and binges and surgeries, into the heart of drug abuse

Gold miner Roger Hazard brings his twelve year old son Casper to the treacherous gold fields of 1870s California. The two of them work a small mine in the southern fields but when Roger begins to lose touch with reality young Casper ends up on his own. Casper faces danger around every corner but must find the strength to save his father from himself and still manage to fight off the savage Indians and ruthless bushwhackers that plague them across California's breathtaking Sierra Nevadas.

23 year-old Jimmy Ray is a small-time drug dealer bent on self-destruction. The product of broken home, Jimmy refuses help from those around him and spends his final hours hanging out and selling drugs (with, of course, an occasional robbery).

Charlie Cavenaugh is an introverted ex-mental patient with a dark secret. As he desperately tries to hold his life and sanity together, Charlie begins to dream obsessively about the spirit of a beautiful young woman.

88 days before his scheduled release from a state mental hospital Lucky O'Donnell returned home on the journey of a lifetime.