When wealthy Seth Hubbard hangs himself from a sycamore tree and leaves his fortune to his black maid, Jake Brigance once again finds himself embroiled in a fiercely controversial trial -- a trial that will expose old racial tensions and force Ford County to confront its tortured history.

Ulysses Everett McGill and two fellow convicts escape from their chain gang in rural 1930s Mississippi and have a series of adventures reminiscent of Homer's "Odyssey."

They live by night: Three prisoners flee from a state prison farm in Mississippi. Among them is 23-years-young Bowie, who spent the last seven years in prison and now hopes to be able to prove his innocence or retire to a home in the mountains and live in peace together with his new love, Kitty. But his criminal companions persuade him to participate in several heists, and soon the police believe him to be their leader and go after "Bowie the Kid"...

Journalist Cam Harrison and his niece Elle encounter a mermaid at a traveling circus in Mississippi and decide to free her from the grasp of Locke, the circus' evil leader.

Based on William Faulkner's warm, humorous, poignant story about a the advent of the automobile, a horse race and a boy's loss of innocence during an great adventure in the early 1900's South.

In 1960s Mississippi, Skeeter, a southern society girl, returns from college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends' lives, and a small Mississippi town, upside down when she decides to interview the Black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent southern families. Aibileen, Skeeter's best friend's housekeeper, is the first to open up, to the dismay of her friends in the tight-knit Black community.

Captures the lives and passions of the Compsons, a once proud Southern family caught in a tragic spiral of loss and misfortune. Encapsulates the universal theme of the death of honor, social injustice and forbidden love.