Matthew McConaughey

Brandon Lang älskar fotboll: en skada hindrar honom från proffskarriären, men hans quarterbackförmåga att förutse gör honom till en briljant spåman för matchens utgång. I behov av pengar lämnar han Vegas för Manhattan för att arbeta för Walter Abrams med att ge råd till spelare. Walter har en hängiven fru, en ung dotter och en blomstrande verksamhet, men han har problem: ett dåligt hjärta, en tro att han är en mästermanipulatör och beroenden som knappt hålls i schack. Han omformar Brandon, och en fader-son-relation växer fram. Sedan går det snett. Walter kanske bedriver en bluff. Oddsen mot Brandon ökar.

En mystisk man anländer till en FBI-agents kontor och berättar om sin barndom: hur hans religiöst fanatiske far fick syner som sa åt honom att förgöra människor som i själva verket var "demoner."

Benjamin Barry är en reklamchef och kvinnotjusare som, för att vinna en stor kampanj, slår vad om att han kan få en kvinna att förälska sig i honom på 10 dagar.

Mary Fiore är bröllopsplaneraren. Hon är ambitiös, hårt arbetande, extremt organiserad och hon vet exakt vad hon ska göra och säga för att göra vilket bröllop som helst till en spektakulär händelse. Men när Mary faller (bokstavligen) för en stilig läkare vänder hennes upptagna men okomplicerade liv upp och ner – han är brudgummen i det största bröllopet i hennes karriär! Kommer hon att hjälpa honom att gå till altaret med sin internetmagnat-flickvän, eller kommer Mary äntligen att få vara bruden själv? När det gäller kärlek kan man aldrig planera vad som kommer att hända.

Dr. Ellie Arroway finner efter år av sökande ett avgörande radiobevis på utomjordisk intelligens, som skickar ritningar till en mystisk maskin.

År 1839 orsakar ett myteri av mende-fångar ombord på ett spanskt ägt fartyg en stor kontrovers i USA när fartyget kapas utanför Long Islands kust. Domstolarna måste avgöra om mendefolket är slavar eller lagligt...

In Canton, Mississippi, 10-year-old Tonya Hailey is viciously brutalized by two white racist rednecks -- James Louis "Pete" Willard and Billy Ray Cobb. Almost immediately after Tonya is found and rushed to a hospital, Pete and Billy Ray are found at a roadside bar, where they had been bragging about what they did to Tonya. Tonya's understandably distraught and enraged father, Carl Lee Hailey, remembers a case from a year ago, when four white men raped an African-American girl in a nearby town, and got acquitted. Carl is determined to not let that happen in this case. While deputy Dwayne Powell Looney is escorting Pete and Billy Ray up a flight of stairs to a court room, Carl emerges from the building's basement with an assault rifle, and he kills Pete and Billy Ray for what they did to Tonya. Carl is later arrested at his house by African-American sheriff Ozzie Walls, and Carl is scheduled to be placed on trial. Despite the efforts of the NAACP and local African-American leaders to persuade Carl to choose some of their high-powered attorneys, Carl wants to be represented by his friend Jake Tyler Brigance, who has a wife named Carla and a daughter named Hannah. Presiding over the trial is white judge Omar Noose, and the prosecution attorney is Rufus Buckley, who would like nothing more than to win the case and swim in the publicity that a win would generate, because Rufus realizes that a murder conviction could help him gain higher office. Helping Jake on the case are his former law professor Lucien Wilbanks, fellow attorney Harry Rex Vonner, and law student Ellen Roark. Ellen has had experience with death penalty cases, and that's exactly what Rufus may be seeking. To start things off, Noose denies bail and denies Jake's petition for a change of venue. Carl has also been fired from his job. Billy Ray Cobb's brother Freddie Lee Cobb wants revenge on Carl, so Freddy gets the help of the Mississippi branch of the KKK, led by Mississippi grand dragon Stump Sisson. Carl's wife Gwen tells Carl that a doctor has said that because of Pete and Billy Ray, Tonya's reproductive organs are damaged enough to where she won't be able to have kids when she grows up. That night, a KKK member is found trying to plant a bomb under Jake's porch. Jake's secretary Ethel Twitty and her husband Bud are also attacked by the KKK. Still, Jake, Harry, Lucien, and Ellen continue to help Carl. On the day the trial begins, there is a riot outside the court building between the KKK and the area's African-American residents, and Stump Sisson is killed by a molotov cocktail that was dropped from a roof by one of Carl's sons, who was not seen dropping it. Freddy and the KKK start burning crosses throughout Canton, and one of the crosses burns Jake's house down while Jake and his family are not home. As a result, the National Guard is called to Canton to keep the peace during the trial. But Freddy is not about to let that stop him. While Freddy continues his efforts to get revenge on Carl for Billy Ray's death, Carl's attorneys put everything they've got into Carl's defense.