In a coastal town in Newfoundland a man named Skip cares for his widowed grandfather, admires the local store clerk from afar and dreams of making something of his life through an unlikely endeavor: rock skipping.

A disempowered man stalks an unconventional woman who is taking his stuff from a skip (dumpster) outside his house. What value has she found in his things that his finicky wife has rejected?

School's almost out. For seniors in Pahokee - a small, mainly African-American industrial town on Florida's Lake Okeechoboee - the Monday after prom is 'Skip Day.' Multitudes of long-time friends miss their lessons, instead driving sixty miles to hang, chill and ponder their futures on the windy dunes of the Atlantic shoreline. The film intimately observes the shared joys of communal activity and extravagant display which bind these engaging teens in rites of passage toward an uncertain adulthood.

An unsold CBS pilot about a mailman named Deacon, who gets entangled in a mess involving a team of Bail Enforcement Agents (bounty hunters who chase after people who have ‘skipped’ bail).

School's almost out. For seniors in Pahokee - a small, mainly African-American industrial town on Florida's Lake Okeechoboee - the Monday after prom is 'Skip Day.' Multitudes of long-time friends miss their lessons, instead driving sixty miles to hang, chill and ponder their futures on the windy dunes of the Atlantic shoreline. The film intimately observes the shared joys of communal activity and extravagant display which bind these engaging teens in rites of passage toward an uncertain adulthood.

A shy boy is unable to make friends in Yazoo City, Mississippi in 1942, until his parents give him a terrier puppy for his ninth birthday. The dog, which he names Skip, becomes well known and loved throughout the community and enriches the life of the boy, Willie, as he grows into manhood. Based on the best-selling Mississippi memoir by the late Willie Morris.

The senior class plans to have a skip-day party at the principal's house until Adam Harris leaks the secret, so he decides to save the celebration by hosting it at his house.

The story is very basic; it deals with the adventures of young street-criminals in Madrid who graduate from car-theft to bank-robbery. What's interesting is the way Saura makes us care about these "hijos de nadie", who are kind and decent people 50% of the time, and feel they have no future in regular society. But the movie never sentimentalizes them - they do exactly what you'd expect such people to do.

The story is very basic; it deals with the adventures of young street-criminals in Madrid who graduate from car-theft to bank-robbery. What's interesting is the way Saura makes us care about these "hijos de nadie", who are kind and decent people 50% of the time, and feel they have no future in regular society. But the movie never sentimentalizes them - they do exactly what you'd expect such people to do.

Filmmaker Skip Lotem stalks Carrie (2002) star Angela Bettis on the set of the film.