In 1969, Lou Jean Poplin (Goldie Hawn) arrives at the Jester Unit pre-release facility to visit her husband Clovis (William Atherton). He only has four months left on his sentence, but Lou Jean notifies him that welfare is coming to take their beloved Baby Langston and put him in a foster home. She’s just been [...]

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Mac Sledge (Robert Duvall) wakes up on the floor of a motel somewhere between Austin and Dallas. His drinking buddy has left him broke, but Mac asks the single mother who owns the motel/gas station – Rosa Lee (Tess Harper) – if he can work off his bill. She agrees, as long as he doesn’t [...]

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In 1893, Jack the Ripper claims a female victim amid the fog of London. At the same time, H.G. Wells (Malcolm McDowell) hosts a party. Wells is a pompous visionary who espouses free love and socialism in his writing, which finances his scientific experiments. With the arrival of Dr. John Leslie Stevenson (David Warner), Wells [...]

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