Mark Williams
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While touring Europe, Miles Nelson watches Simone Albescu, a young Romanian figure skater at the Innsbruck Olympics. The two "tumbleweeds" meet again in America. Through a bizarre series of events, the American and the Romanian expatriate experience an unexpected and incongruous relationship.
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Beginning with childhood games and antics, David Byxby's retrospectives includes his thirty-year career as a pilot, family man and curmudgeon. His memories include sketches of the people with whom he shares adventures: a British archeologist, a Danish military pilot, a Swiss adventurer (whom he marries), a Romanian eccentric of dubious antecedents, and a German run-away lost and bewildered in the Western Pacific. "Byx" raises a daughter and maintains...
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After an injury robs pairs, skaters Marcea Schmidt and Mark Lindstrom of a "chance at the big time," they dissolve their dozen-year partnership and go, separate ways. Years later, they long to renew their friendship. Because they discover no trace of each other, they must rely on chance to bring them together.
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After two seasons as a moderately successful football coach at a small college, Jake Oats is hired to revitalize a major conference program. He struggles with campus intrigue, an ambivalent school administration, players he never recruited, and putting together a quality staff. His attempts to balance career and family is complicated by student body pressure during the age of campus demonstrations. Facing great and small challenges, Jake wrestles...
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An East German family is ripped asunder by a border "incident." Raised by proxy families, two siblings are anxious, ambivalent, frightened and resentful of each other. Each enjoys a rich, familial heritage. They are comfortable with their adoptive families. However, as the East German nation begins to crumble, the sisters' curiosity morphs into an obsession. They are eager to reach out to each other but are terrified by being total strangers. The...
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To celebrate her wedding anniversary, a retired matinee idol insists on wearing a fortune in jewels. An insurance man is, dispatched to assess security arrangements. He and his shady man Friday discover the remote retirement community, a magazine reporter, the former screen heartthrob, and her servants are not, exactly, as advertised. Neither are the jewels.
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Charles flees from a restrictive religious community, learns auto mechanics and drifts across the nation. Caroline learns a trade under the thumb of a demanding stage mother and travels the world. After a chance meeting, they forge a relationship. With a romance rooted in trust, they become vagabonds searching for a more satisfying life.