Estelle Parsons

Is there life after death? A widow, who seeks that answer, reinvents herself with a new name, a new town, and a new, slightly off-center profession.

A white, bigoted insurance salesman living the comfortable middle class life wakes up one morning to discover that he has become a black man overnight and comes to see the many sides of racism and hostility that he once engendered himself.

A married backwoods Tennessee sheriff falls in love with a teenager whose father is a moonshiner. The sheriff becomes involved in the illicit operations, making sure his men and federal agents stay clear of the stills. When a deputy stumbles upon the still and is killed, this makes the sheriff an accomplice to the crime.

Desperate to send her husband back to college, Henrietta bets on an unreliable tip and borrows money from a loan shark to buy pork belly futures.

Diane fills her days helping others and desperately attempting to bond with her drug-addicted son. As these pieces of her existence begin to fade, she finds herself confronting memories she'd sooner forget than face.

Romantic fantasy unfolds when a young man discovers an old desk that can send love letters to a woman who lived 100 years prior.

As she turns 35, schoolteacher Rachel Cameron (Joanne Woodward) realizes she is at the exact middle of her lonely, uninteresting life. Repressed and self-conscious, Rachel yearns for her share of life. Taking small, brave steps she tries things she has shunned for years--attending a revival meeting, and allowing herself to fall in love. Although the man she grows to love leaves her, Rachel disc...

A young gunslinger on the lam impersonates a preacher, and to his own surprise, brings hope and order to a town terrorized by a strongman's gang.

Based on the real-life ordeal of Baltimore priest Bernard Pagano, who was wrongly identified and accused of a series of robberies in the late ‘70s.

After a young woman is diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, her family takes her to an assisted care facility, where she bonds with fellow patients.