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A man gets a chance to meet up with his dream girl from high school, even though his date with her back then was a complete disaster. [more inside]
posted by Carillon on Jul 17, 2023 - 13 comments

In post-Sept. 11 Los Angeles, tensions erupt when the lives of a Brentwood housewife, her district attorney husband, a Persian shopkeeper, two cops, a pair of carjackers and a Korean couple converge during a 36-hour period. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Nov 8, 2022 - 10 comments

Suzanne Stone (Nicole Kidman) is a weather reporter at her small-town cable station, but she dreams of being a big-time news anchor. However, she feels that her middle-class husband (Matt Dillon) is holding her back, so she decides to have him murdered. For this, she enlists Jimmy (Joaquin Phoenix), a high school boy who is enamored with her. The plan doesn't work exactly as she intended, though, and her husband's family starts to suspect that she was involved in his death. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Aug 21, 2022 - 6 comments

The kids in the cookie-cutter suburb of New Grenada have been forgotten. Enduring a bored existence punctuated by drugs and petty crime, the restless teens seek release as tensions rise between their tribe and the various authority figures in their lives... until tragedy strikes, and the town explodes. [more inside]
posted by Ten Cold Hot Dogs on Oct 7, 2018 - 3 comments

The rivalry between two gangs, the poor Greasers and the rich Socs, only heats up when one gang member kills a member of the other. [more inside]
posted by MoonOrb on Apr 26, 2018 - 5 comments

John Lurie and Matt Dillon try their hand at the mysterious, local fishing customs of Costa Rica. [more inside]
posted by Elementary Penguin on Oct 2, 2015 - 2 comments

Ethan learns more about Pilcher's grand design. Kate and Theresa have coffee. Kate and her husband hatch a plan.
posted by trunk muffins on Jun 25, 2015 - 8 comments

Ethan goes on a walk. Ben attends orientation.Theresa gets a gold star. [more inside]
posted by trunk muffins on Jun 11, 2015 - 27 comments

Ethan starts a new adventure. Ben enrolls at Wayward Pines Academy and makes a friend. Theresa is extended an offer of employment.
posted by trunk muffins on Jun 4, 2015 - 16 comments

After receiving some seriously sub-par medical care for wounds sustained in a car accident outside the eerily bucolic Idaho town Wayward Pines, Secret Service Agent Ethan Burke (Matt Dillon) pairs up with resident Beverly Short (Juliette Lewis) to figure out why it's so darn hard to leave. [more inside]
posted by trunk muffins on May 21, 2015 - 13 comments

The debut episode of Wayward Pines is going to be made available early via streaming. Are you excited? Are you in? [more inside]
posted by trunk muffins on Apr 23, 2015 - 7 comments