Writer Nick Eliot (Cary Elwes) secures a job at Pique magazine and lodging in a guest house belonging to Cliff and Liv Forrester (Kurtwood Smith and Gwynyth Walsh).

Allison "Allie" Jones is a software designer in New York City, engaged to Sam Rawson. Sam's ex-wife calls, and it is revealed that he slept with her recently.

Julia Banks is questioned for the murder of her psychotic ex-boyfriend, Michael.

Neil Curry (Perkins) is living a happy life with his second wife Barbara (Berenson) in California after abandoning his first wife Emily (Chaplin) in New York.

The film begins with Shelby (Mischa Barton) driving at night while crying and smoking a cigarette, which she drops and then hits someone who was standing in the path of the car.

Daniel "Dan" Gallagher is a successful, happily-married Manhattan lawyer whose work leads him to meet Alexandra "Alex" Forrest, an editor for a publishing company.

16-year-old Nicole Walker (Reese Witherspoon) lives in the suburbs of Seattle with her father Steven (William Petersen), his new wife Laura (Amy Brenneman), and Laura's son Toby (Christopher Gray).

A man so desperate for a promotion prostitutes his unwilling wife to his boss.

Sara Matthews is starting her freshman year of college.

Ben Cronin is a star swimmer of his high school's swim team. His coach informs him that Stanford University scouts will appear at next week's swim meet.

Seymour "Sy" Parrish (Robin Williams) is a photo technician at a one-hour photo in big-box store SavMart.

Secret Service Agents Frank Horrigan and Al D'Andrea meet with members of a counterfeiting group at a marina.

A french widow Peggy played by Mireille Darc meets a writer François Rollin played by Claude Brasseur.

Michael and Karen Carr (Kurt Russell and Madeleine Stowe) are a couple living in an upscale part of Los Angeles.

14-year-old Hayley Stark and 32-year-old photographer Jeff Kohlver engage in a sexually charged, flirtatious online chat.

Warren Stacey (Gene Davis) is a young office equipment repairman who kills women after they reject his sexual advances.

Tom Stall is a diner owner who lives in the small (fictional) town of Millbrook, Indiana, with a loving wife Edie, teenage son Jack, and daughter Sarah.

In Seattle, housewife Claire Bartel is happily married and pregnant with her second child. At a routine check-up, she is sexually molested by her new obstetrician, Dr.

Jude Madigan (Curtis) suddenly and inexplicably leaves her husband, Robert (Gallagher), and three sons.

During the American Civil War in 1863, Amy, a 12-year-old student at the Miss Martha Farnsworth Seminary for Young Ladies in rural Mississippi, discovers a seriously wounded Union soldier, John McBurney.