A Heap of Trouble

Hannah and Jess meet up at a tiki bar, seeing each other for the first time since Hannah's romantic Mexico trip. Hannah has a lot to say about it, except what really happened.

Scrat tries to finish his rather large collection of acorns when things start going nutty.

A biting satire from the front lines of the American workplace, where layoffs are so routine they've created their own industry - outplacement. Elite Transition Services promises laid-off worker Scott Matter help finding a job and getting back on his feet. But as the job search grows increasingly desperate, Scott finds himself caught in a corporate purgatory where the absurdities of office life are brought into vivid relief.

On the surface, this collection of shorts by up-and-coming African American filmmakers arrived at a perfect time. The cutting-edge products of the New Black Cinema of the early '90s had disappeared, giving way to embarrassingly stereotypical, scatological fare such as Booty Call and Next Friday. This feature-packed compilation (which includes production notes, interviews with all of the filmmakers, and audio commentary by four) attempts to prove that African American cinema is intent on moving past the lowbrow humor, as six of the seven shorts steer clear of any comedy.

A man boards on a tram together with a naked boy. Somebody has stolen the boy's clothes when he was out bathing, leaving him with not even change for the tram. The man has taken care of him and is taking him home. At first nobody notices them but as soon as the people realize they are seeing something out of the ordinary they begin to react to the situation. Some are content with the simple explanation as to why the boy is naked. Others are agitated, for they see the whole situation as something unseemly. An ordinary incident, which might have been passed over in silence, results in a heated argument that turns into a fight. More and more people join in the fight until the police are forced to intervene.

A remixed narrative that combines two Jake Gyllenhaal films (Donnie Darko and Jarhead) with news footage of former President Barack Obama.

A nasty chef bites off more than he can chew.

Mater the tow truck travels from country to country as he retells his infamous but unbelievable stories.

Forces already occupying a home have their own ideas about the sudden presence of a trio moving in.

An unattractive 7th grader struggles to cope with suburban life as the middle child with inattentive parents and bullies at school.

A podcaster implicates her step-father in a series of unsolved murders, which makes for a compelling show but an awkward family reunion.