The Wordsmith (1979)

A hard-living salesman becomes a quadriplegic after an accident.

On the French island of Mont Saint-Michel, Jack, a failed presidential candidate, Tom, his ex-speechwriter and Sonia, a physicist, engage in an intellectual conversation about politics, philosophy and life over the course of a single day.

After her stay-at-home husband leaves her, a workaholic lawyer finds that she is not completely up to the tasks of caring for her young son, ailing father and household all by herself.

A Midwestern husband and father announces his plan to have a sex change operation.

A blind teacher breaks the rules to help a female student rediscover the pleasures of life.

Defiant young activists take the women's suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote.

Time passes and tension mounts in a Florida police station as an estranged interracial couple awaits news of their missing teenage son.

The legendary Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other's lives.

In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, and neglects her daughter and husband. Lawyer Jim Train is devoted to his career, not his family. Helen Christianson wants to find a new spark in life, while Annette Jennings tries to rebuild hers.

Middle-aged widow Beatrice Hunsdorfer and her daughters Ruth and Matilda are struggling to survive in a society they barely understand. Beatrice dreams of opening an elegant tea room but does not have the wherewithal to achieve her lofty goal. Epileptic Ruth is a rebellious adolescent, while shy but highly intelligent and idealistic Matilda seeks solace in her pets and school projects, including one designed to show how small amounts of radium affect marigolds.