Troubled Laughter (1979)

Two married couples adjust to the vast social and economic changes taking place in China from the 1980s to the present.

A boozy lowlife tries to bury the truth about his crazy stepson's suspicious death, but a nosy newspaper columnist and the young man's mother complicate matters.

A 21-year-old reformed gangster's devotion to his family and his future is put to the test when he is released from prison and returns to his old stomping grounds in Watts, Los Angeles.

In New York City, a young girl is caught in the middle of her parents' bitter custody battle.

A pair of twin brothers from East L.A. choose to live their lives differently and end up on opposite sides of the law.

The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present.

An odyssey through time and memory, centered on a place in New Jersey where—from wilderness, and then, later, from a home—love, loss, struggle, hope and legacy play out between couples and families over generations.

The relationship of a couple who meet by chance in New York City is put to the test when they encounter a life or death circumstance.

Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell.

An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of getting a loan from a friend.