Mary Beth Hughes

In "Pelican Song," a thirty-year-old modern dancer who moonlights as a movie ticket taker visits her parent's picturesque home to discover that her stepfather has begun mistreating her too-accommodating mother. "Horse" follows maladjusted honeymooners in Atlantic City whose romantic weekend is saved from emotional catastrophe. A holiday in New York City turns from shopping sprees to a young girl's sharp discovery of her father's secret life in "Rome." With...

From the outside in, the Devlin family lead almost perfect lives. Dashing father Nick is a successful businessman long married to sweetheart Jean, who upholds the family home and entertains, while daughter Lily attends Catholic school and is disciplined into modesty by the nuns. Under the surface, however, the Devlins are broken by the death of their little boy, Cubbie. When Nick's older brother, Lionel, a man driven by callous and rapacious urges,...

A man fleeing the police after having committed a murder hides out in a boarding house in a small town.