Richard LaGravenese

After a near-fatal plane crash in WWII, Olympian Louis Zamperini spends a harrowing 47 days in a raft with two fellow crewmen before he's caught by the Japanese navy and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp.

A young widow discovers that her late husband has left her 10 messages intended to help ease her pain and start a new life.

A surprising romance kicks off comic consequences for a young woman, her mother, and her movie-star boss as they face the complications of love, sex, and identity.

Jacob takes a job as an animal caretaker in a traveling circus. There he meets Marlena, a beautiful circus performer. Their shared compassion for a special elephant Rosie leads to love, but Marlena's cruel husband stands in their ...

A former radio DJ, suicidally despondent because of a terrible mistake he once made, finds redemption in helping a mentally unstable homeless man who was an innocent victim of that mistake.

Photographer Robert Kincaid wanders into the life of housewife Francesca Johnson for four days in the 1960s.

Ethan Wate longs to escape his small southern town. He meets a mysterious new girl, Lena Duchannes. Together, they uncover dark secrets about their respective families, their history, and their town.

Erin Gruwell, a young teacher in a racially divided Los Angeles school, inspires her class of at-risk students, deemed incapable of learning, to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pursue education beyond high school.

Through the neighborhoods of Paris, love is veiled, revealed, imitated, sucked dry, reinvented, and awakened.

A chronicle of the tempestuous six-year romance between megastar singer Liberace and his young lover Scott Thorson.

A cat burglar is forced to take a bickering, dysfunctional family hostage on Christmas Eve.

A shy, middle-aged professor enters into a romantic but non-physical relationship with an unlucky-in-love colleague.

A look at the life of an aging insult comic named Jack Burke.

A struggling actress and her novelist lover each illustrate the struggle and deconstruction of their love affair.

A slave is visited by the spirit of a mysterious young woman.

Judith, a wife betrayed by her unfaithful husband, finds solace in a nightclub singer's advice. A random kiss awakens her to new possibilities, igniting an attraction to her apartment's elevator operator.

When a youngster needs a break from the pressures of his parents' household, he moves in with his offbeat uncles and learns some invaluable life lessons.

When a struggling writer, HIV positive for 20+ years, accidentally deposits a $100 birthday check, he is dropped from his health plan for earning too much. In this new era of sort-of universal care, can he take on a helpless burea...