"In the heart of the nation's capital, in a courthouse of the U.S. government, one man will stop at nothing to keep his honor, and one will stop at nothing to find the truth." Neo military lawyer Kaffee defends Marines accused of murder; they contend they were acting under orders.

"They grew up on the outside of society. They weren't looking for a fight. They were looking to belong." When two poor greasers, Johnny, and Ponyboy are assaulted by a vicious gang, the socs, and Johnny kills one of the attackers, tension begins to mount between the two rival gangs, setting off a turbulent chain of events.

Selfish yuppie Charlie Babbitt's father left a fortune to his savant brother Raymond and a pittance to Charlie; they travel cross-country.

"When he pours, he reigns." A talented New York bartender takes a job at a bar in Jamaica and falls in love.

"Cruise. Kidman. Kubrick." A New York City doctor, who is married to an art curator, pushes himself on a harrowing and dangerous night-long odyssey of sexual and moral discovery after his wife admits that she once almost cheated on him.