Jim Beaver

A college student takes a job assisting a paraplegic woman who is fighting to stay in her home. He discovers that this "helpless" woman spins the lives of everyone around her like an Oklahoma tornado.

When a popular rancher is reported murdered, the men who knew him ride out to avenge his death. The men they catch may not be the men who committed the crime...if there was a crime. From the novel by Walter Van Tilburg Clark.

A drunken man pours out a tragic story to a stranger in a tavern.

An old veteran of B-Western movies tells stories about his adventures to an audience at a Western film-fan convention.

A man tells a reporter the story of how he came to be where he is, and how an episode of high-school hi-jinks led to tragedy.

Two bored Marines pass the time in a Vietnam morgue playing cards and crossword puzzles when suddenly one of the newly-arrived corpses turns out not to be dead.

A Marine drill instructor takes a platoon of recruits through 12 weeks of basic training in 30 minutes.

Two Japanese tourists are lost in an American city, unable to speak English, with no one to help them but a deranged homeless man.

Two cleaning women are mopping up a gay bathhouse in New York on the morning of the big Bicentennial celebration when a young man rushes in, desperate to find something he lost the night before, but unable to communicate in English.

Two brothers drive across open Texas prairie, trying to figure out the right way to grieve.

A character actor on location in a small town brings a local waitress back to his hotel room. What he discovers there is nothing at all like what he'd expected.

A young New York City street mime, desperate to convince her ex-boyfriend that she's engaged to someone, tries to get a tourist to help out by pretending to be her fiance. The only problem is, he doesn't speak English.

A young Latino male is hauled before a kangaroo court of rodeo clowns on a charge of unauthorized driving through a white neighborhood while Mexican.

Shakespearean spoof

A newspaper reporter interviews a derelict who claims to be Clark Kent.

Two layabouts try to figure a way to get thrown into jail in order to have a warm place to spend the winter. Adapted from the short story by O. Henry.