A young woman struggles with her dream of becoming a doctor and her feelings for a man who wants a traditional wife.

Two brothers growing up in Montana at the beginning of the century learn fly fishing as if it were a religion. They both grow up to be writers, but one meets with an early, tragic end.

Set in 1898, a spirited young girl in rural Mississippi is sent to North Carolina to live with her aunt to become a proper young lady.

When Santa finds himself in jail, a young girl tries to prove it's really him, and her parents discover how real he is when eight reindeer show up on their roof. Can the whole family get together to save Christmas without Santa?

Having lost his wife in a car accident that left him with brain damage and subsequent mental problems, a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist struggles to keep custody of his young daughter, who many years later faces emotional problems of her own.

When a close-knit Boston family loses their fortune, they find a wealth of family secrets, young love and charming summer nights in Beulah, Maine.

When Margot and her son, Claude, come to attend the wedding of her sister, Pauline, it seems as if a family rift is being mended. Despite their best efforts, Margot and Pauline revert to their most dysfunctional selves. It does not help that Pauline's fiancé is woefully depressed. Margot's lover is as narcissistic as she is. Margot's estranged husband can't seem to recognize that Margot cringes at his every effort at reconciliation. Margot and Claude...

Olive is a little girl who dreams of winning the Little Miss Sunshine contest, but her dysfunctional family can't make it through a day without some disaster befalling them.

Four different families celebrate Thanksgiving in their own ways.

A boy with a facial deformity, who enters a middle school after being homeschooled for his whole life, struggles to fit in and get accepted by his classmates.