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In this intimate family drama, sisters Jayne (Parker Posey) and Laura (Demi Moore) reunite in Pittsburgh to care for their father, whose poor health hasn’t stopped him from pursuing a romance with a suspicious woman (Ellen Barkin), much to the consternation of the two sisters. Rip Torn.

After a failed suicide attempt, brilliant New York misanthrope Boris Yellnikoff forsakes his posh upper-class existence for meager accommodations in Chinatown. He meets his exact opposite in Melody, a pageant queen from the Deep South who’s long on sweetness but short on smarts. Surprisingly, Boris and Melody marry, but the sparks really fly when Melody’s born-again Christian mother arrives and finds liberation instead of damnation.

Young Coco Chanel (Audrey Tautou) works as a seamstress by day and a cabaret entertainer by night, then she meets a wealthy heir (Benoît Poelvoorde) and becomes his lover and fashion consultant. Tired of the flowery hats, tight corsets and yards of lace that define women’s fashion, Coco uses her lover’s clothing as a starting point to distill an elegant and sophisticated line of women’s clothing that propels her to the top of Parisian haute couture.

With the nation embroiled in still another year with the high death count of Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln brings the full measure of his passion, humanity and political skill to what would become his defining legacy: to end the war and permanently abolish slavery through the 13th Amendment. Having great courage, acumen and moral fortitude, Lincoln pushes forward to compel the nation, and those in government who oppose him, to aim toward a greater good for all mankind.