Harold, a slick mobster, enters the bleak world of two teenaged orphans. The boys are urban scavengers who steal and mug for a living, but when they kidnap Harold, the gangster, he turns the tables to become an unlikely parent who changes their lives forever.

When a Southern white woman accuses a black man of rape, the outcome of the trial is a foregone conclusion and no lawyer except Peck will defend him. Peck's defense costs him friendships but earns him the respect of his two children.

A man is released from prison, but reuniting with his family is difficult due to his violent temper.

A young, idealistic New York City high school teacher encounters problems as she tries to teach English literature to her poor, inner city students.

A private eye searches for a suburban man in New York City. His only lead is the man's relationship with a prostitute.

"Perhaps no director tapped into the sense of dread and mistrust that pervaded the 1970s more effectively than Alan J. Pakula, who, in the second installment of his celebrated Paranoia Trilogy, offers a chilling vision of America in the wake of the assassinations of the Kennedys and Martin Luther King, Jr., with the shock of Watergate near at hand. Three years after the murder of a leading senator atop Seattle's Space Needle, reporter Joseph Frady...

A young law student writes a brief which holds the solution to the murders of two Supreme Court justices, and soon she is running for her life.