A woman serving a life sentence for murder hits upon an airtight escape plan.

A troubled young man threatens to jump from the 28th floor of a hotel as police officers attempt to stop him.

A gun man injured from a robbery in which he killed a cop, tries to charm a nurse into helping him escape from hospital custody.

After closing a major drug deal, a ruthless businessman is paralyzed in an auto accident, and presumed dead by all who see him- including the coroner.

Paul Dano is a film star and has been nominated many times, but never won the big one. When a role comes along that spells Oscar, he loses out to Lone Richards, a young hunk Dano calls ""a face for a nine inch TV screen."" Richards naively seeks Dano's advice on how to play the part. Bad move. Dano gives Richards bad advice on purpose and Richards loses the part and Dano gets it. Richards becomes enraged by this and wants revenge.

An arrogant, yet influential, food critic attempts to persuade a reluctant restaurant proprietor to reveal a treasured recipe.

A writer of mystery stories imagines there are devious things going on at her new neighbor's house.

A camping trip for two becomes a flight from murder full of twists and double-crosses when a Harvard-bound law student goes against his better judgement and lets his girl friend bring her "cousin" along.

Ironically, it's an escaped convict who brings a sense of liberation to a housewife: she insists on going with him as his "hostage".

A poor little rich boy who's deaf witnesses a murder, then blackmails the hit man into doing a job for him.

Time is running out for a judge who's surprised, bound and gagged by burglars in his house after rigging a bomb to eliminate his wife and her suspected lover.

A professor spurns the legal system to seek revenge on the man who raped his wife.

A psychiatrist tries to convince the police that a man recently released from a mental hospital after 15 years, is still dangerous and capable of murder.

Trial of a woman who killed her husband while hypnotically transported to a past life.

A divorce is driven to drastic retaliatory measures after being the victim of a series of phone calls and constant survillance from a near by appartant.

A fashion designer is terrified that she may be the next target of the creeper who may have the keys to her appartment.

The arrest of a newspaper reporter on his birthday for a murder supposedly committed 22 years ago comes as a complete surprise to the accused.

A TV reporter looks for the human interest story behind the short-lived takeover of the station's airwaves by a former technician who claims to be an alien with an urgent warning to Earthlings.

A withdrawn teenager is fascinated with the instant celebrity of a murdered classmate and fakes an assault on herself.

Three film production house employees who are mistreated by their unscrupulous boss utilize their cinematic skills in divising a murder plot.

An older woman attemps to convince her young lover that the only way they can continue their affair is for him to end her husband's life.

When a shy student pledges a Greek House, the fraternity brothers plot a prank against him.

A jealous man kills his twin brother and tries to assume his identity.

A bank robber is wounded in a shoot-out, then forced to endure an excruciating wait for a painkiller at the pharmacy.

An artist's years of failure are behind after he finds a jar which holds mysterious contents and entrances to those who view it.