Movies: Jan Jalenak

A young woman tries to leave her troubled past behind. She meets her old flame by accident and they fall in love again, but this obsessive relationship threatens to consume them....

A carefully constructed marriage implodes when an unexpected call unleashes the fragility and wounds that have been simmering for years....

It takes place at a birthday party on a single fateful evening. Lenny, the birthday boy, is an insecure young man who has something to prove. After he's already had too much to drink, his cynical drinking buddy Willy goads him into proving his marksm...

Penelope's search for the kind of love that's missing in her life leads her to a motel room with another woman - only to be confronted by the realities of her marriage....

"My father says if people don't come and see this movie, we'll starve," says Tate Sullivan, introducing his father's "The Beer Drinker's Guide to Fitness and Filmmaking." (Send canned goods to Auteur-Aid, care of Fred G. Sullivan, Saranac Lake, N.Y. ...