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When an executive for a global pharmaceutical company, Gumbiner-Fishcher, is found dead in Montreal, his wife Sarah's world is thrown into a tailspin. With the ensuing investigation led by garda Emer Byrne revealing more questions than answers, Sarah suddenly finds herself under suspicion, and her life under surveillance.

A widow begins to uncover her recently deceased husband's disturbing secrets.

Basil Fawlty is an inept and manic English hotel owner and manager who isn't cut out for his job. He's intolerant, rude and paranoid. Chaos frequently breaks loose as Basil tries to run the hotel. He is constantly under verbal (and sometime physical) attack from his unhelpful wife Sybil, and hindered by the incompetent, but easy target, Manuel, the Spanish waiter. Fortunately he has an intelligent and attractive maid to help him out of the various...

After a romantic evening in their secluded lake house, Emma awakens handcuffed to her dead husband. Trapped and isolated in the dead of winter, she must fight off hired killers to escape her husband's twisted plan.

A womanizing bachelor attempts to keep a fortune-seeking seductress from revealing a scandalous secret from his past. Inspired by the classic Oscar Wilde play.

Stan is a fraudulent real estate agent who is married to his beloved Mindy and has a seven million dollar fortune. When he is arrested for fraud, he is sentenced to a three year prison sentence. His assets are frozen by the Justice. Lew Popper is Stan's crooked lawyer. Lew negotiates six month's freedom and the weak Stan, who is afraid of being raped in prison, hires a specialist in martial arts. The Master teaches Stan self-defense. Six months later,...

Mass murders, kidnappings and a flasher may be troubling to the residents of Fernwood, Ohio. But pigtailed, gingham-frocked housewife Mary Hartman has a much more serious problem: waxy buildup on her kitchen floor. And while her husband Tom struggles in the bedroom and her best friend, country singer Loretta Haggers, struggles to make it big in Nashville, Mary teeters closer to the edge, desperate to save her marriage, keep her family together and...

Michael Stone, husband, father and noted author, travels to Cincinnati to speak at a customer service conference. But once he's separated from the routine of his daily life, a chance encounter helps him to realize just what, and whom, he's been missing.

"On the occasion of his fifth wedding anniversary, Nick Dunne reports that his wife, Amy, has gone missing. Under pressure from the police and a growing media frenzy, Nick's portrait of a blissful union begins to crumble. Soon his lies, deceits and strange behavior have everyone asking the same dark question. Did Nick Dunne kill his wife?"--

Ray Barone is a successful sportswriter whose oddball family life consists of a fed-up wife, overbearing parents, and an older brother with lifelong jealousy.