Hell Bound

While dining out with friends, Sy suggests the difficulty of separating comedy from tragedy. To illustrate his point, he tells his guests two parallel stories about Melinda ; both versions have the same basic elements, but one take on her state of affairs leans toward levity, while the other is full of anguish. Each story involves Melinda coping with a recent divorce through substance abuse while beginning a romantic relationship with a close friend's husband.

Gail and Tom Hartman are struggling to stay together and decide to take a white-water rafting holiday adventure in Montana for their son Roarke's 10th birthday, only to meet up with a pair of mysterious men whose desperation grows, turning their vacation into a nightmare.

The life of a married Munich technical draftsman with a son.

When Leah's brother dies in a car accident, she vows revenge on the doc who failed to save him.

A journalist's wife insists on adopting an abandoned child.

A political activist is convinced that her guest is a man who once tortured her for the government.

A passenger on a cruise ship develops an irresistible infatuation with an eccentric paraplegic's wife.

When a marriage is threatened by a long excursion for work, domestic trouble is buffeted by family and friends.

An American woman, trapped in Islamic Iran by her brutish husband, must find a way to escape with her daughter as well.

A wounded criminal and his dying partner take refuge at an old beachfront fortress. The owner of the fortress and his young wife, initially unwilling hosts, quickly experience their relationship with the criminal shift in a humorous and bizarre fashion.

A TransSiberian train journey from China to Moscow becomes a thrilling chase of deception and murder when an American couple encounters a mysterious pair of fellow travelers.