Christmas is coming, and notorious stray pup/escape artist Shelby is once again locked up in the dog pound. But when a spoiled rich kid tries to adopt him for all the wrong reasons, Shelby runs away and hides in the suburban basement of ten-year-old aspiring magician Jake Parker. Now with the frazzled local dogcatcher hot on their tail, can Jake, his siblings and their visiting grandpa, pull off the ultimate magic trick and rescue Shelby, making him...

Now married with a baby, Joe and Love have moved to a privileged Northern California enclave. Joe tries to commit to his new life but fears Love's lethal impulsiveness... and the woman he's always wanted might be living right next door. Breaking out of a basement cage is one thing, Escaping the prison of this picture perfect marriage may prove to be far more complicated.

Arrested in the 1965 Watts riots, Richard Kelly (Cedric Sanders) must serve probation at an all-white seminary. Although encouraged to break racial boundaries by its president Alan Beckett (William Devane), the school wants black followers, not leaders. Even former missionary Kate Allison (Lauren Holly) initially rejects Richard. With a prison sentence looming, Ricahrd meets Samuel Benton (Louis Gossett, Jr.)- "the gardener in the basement." As Samuel...

Finney Shaw is a shy but clever 13-year-old boy who's being held in a soundproof basement by a sadistic, masked killer. When a disconnected phone on the wall starts to ring, he soon discovers that he can hear the voices of the murderer's previous victims, and they are dead set on making sure that what happened to them doesn't happen to Finney.