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(dysfunctional family)

Eleven-year-old North has had it with his parents. They are always busy with their careers and don't give North the attention he needs, so he files a lawsuit against them. The judge rules that North should either find new parents or return to his own parents within two months. Thus north starts off on an hilarious journey around the world to find the parents that really care about him.

(psychotic disease)

Following his mother's death, Mark is sent to Maine to visit his aunt and uncle while his father goes on a business trip to Tokyo. Mark meets his cousin, Henry, and the two quickly form a friendship. However, Henry begins to show signs of psychotic behavior that worry Mark.

(AIDS)

Dexter, age 11, who has AIDS, and his next door neighbor Eric, a little older and much bigger, become best friends. Eric also becomes closer to Dexter's mother than to his own, who is neglectful and bigoted and violently forbids their friendship upon learning of it. When they read that a doctor in distant New Orleans claims to have found a cure for AIDS, the boys leave home on their own, planning to float down the Mississippi river and find him.

After his twin brother is accidentally killed by vengeful bullies, a 12-year old boy and his friends face the harsh realities of death, teenage hormones, and family dysfunction.

In 1949, after years of war and famine, some orphan children are sent to a boarding school. They act violently, they are beaten and they don't have a model to follow. But their new music teacher works to positively effect the students' lives through music.

After he has a car breakdown, the French journalist Sahebjam (James Caviezel) ends up in a remote Iranian village, where Zahra (Shohreh Aghdashloo) tells him about her niece. Soraya's husband, Ali (Navid Negahban) wants to divorce her because he has fallen in love with a fourteen-year old. Because Soraya (Mozhan Marnò) refuse to divorce, Ali accuses her of adultery with the local, corrupt Mullah. There is no proof, but the people are easily persuaded. The innocent Soraya is stoned. Zahra's story makes clear that the women are without any rights. Her only hope for satisfaction is that the story of Soraya reached the outside world by means of the journalist.