A veteran newscaster announces that he is going to commit suicide on his final programme. An ambitious programming executive convinces her superiors to let the broadcast go ahead, hoping that the final event will give the network its greatest ratings ever.

A psychiatrist attempts to discover why young Peter Firth has taken to mutilating live horses. In probing Firth’s psyche, Burton discovers that the source of the boy’s obsession is his mother, Joan Plowright, who has raised Firth with a convoluted set of values.

A Southern drifter passes through LA and reunites with an old friend, stirring up underlying tensions in his family life.

A Jamaican widower recently released from a mental institution and a former housewife with an imagined lover in the form of 19th-century composer Giacomo Puccini become the unlikely tenants of an eccentric widow in Los Angeles.

In the upscale Toronto strip club Exotica, dancer Christina is visited nightly by the obsessive Francis, a depressed tax auditor.

A small mountain community in Canada is devastated when a school bus accident leaves more than a dozen of its children dead.

The love between first knight Lancelot and Guenevere, and the treachery of his sister Morgana and son Mordred cause King Arthur’s pride to jeopardize the kingdom. An epic battle between the knights of good and evil decides the fate of Camelot.

Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it’s turned into one huge lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a river-rafting trip they’ll never forget into the dangerous American back-country.