poor families

Tangy Mae, the darkest of ten children born to Rozelle Quinn, an abusive and controlling woman, struggles to earn her education and win her freedom from her mother who wants Tangy to quit school and go to work in a local brothel.

Two young Mexican American migrant workers in California find hope in love, despite the poverty and social conditions in which they live.

Young Francie Nolan, having inherited both her father's romantic and her mother's practical nature, struggles to survive and thrive growing up in the slums of Brooklyn in the early twentieth century.

New Orleans college student Leslie Beaudet, tormented by family problems and a violent incident from the past, snaps when she learns her boyfriend is cheating on her with a waitress, and turns to the practice of voodoo to help rid herself of her problems.

New Orleans college student Leslie Beaudet, tormented by family problems and a violent incident from the past, snaps when she learns her boyfriend is cheating on her with a waitress, and turns to the practice of voodoo to help rid herself of her problems.

When Billy Beede learns that her mother's burial spot is about to be plowed up to make way for a supermarket, Billy sets out to dig up her mother, and the stash of jewels that is rumored to be buried with her, before she misses her chance.

Miser Ebenezer Scrooge learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future.

Fifteen-year-old Yuri Balodis, son of Latvian-immigrant parents, falls in love with Hannah Graham, the daughter of a prominent local socialist, and immediately becomes involved in the socialist movement creating serious consequences for himself and his family.