Charles Dickens's story of a young man's journey to maturity. This version finds David Copperfield (Robin Phillips) as a young man, brooding on a deserted beach.

Friends Hermie (an aspiring artist), Oscy (a jock), and Benjie (a nerd) graduate high school in the spring of 1944, under the looming threat of World War II.

The film tells the true story of stock car racing legend Jimmie Lewallen and his friends Bill Blair, Sr. and Fred Harb.

Set in the autumn of 1941 in Salty Creek, a willowy fishing village in South Carolina, the film tells the compelling story of two interracial lovers, Sophie, an artist who also fishes and sells crabs to the townsfolk, the other an Asian gentleman, swept up in the tides of history.

Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe is the third novel by Mary Ann Evans (George Eliot). It was published in 1861.

During the summer of 1942, sixteen-year-old Gene Forrester attends The Devon School, a private boarding school in New Hampshire.

"Bernice Bobs Her Hair" is a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, written in 1920 and first published in the Saturday Evening Post in May of that year.

Bill Willis, a successful American novelist and World War II veteran, is living in Paris in the 1960s with his family.

Dog Days of Summer opens with adult Philip Walden paying a visit to the unnamed town where he grew up.

American lawyer Henry Strauss (Robards) is preparing to return to Germany for the first time since he left in 1933 following Adolf Hitler's rise to power.

Abel Tiffauges (Malkovich) is a simple Frenchman at the start of World War II who loves animals and children.