Christopher B. Duncan

Marvin Bookman is a small shop owner in Gary, Indiana, USA. After he sees a drive-by shooting of Laurie Thompson's son by a local gang, he gives up the license number of the car to the police. The gang doesn't like this so they go to the store and rough him up.... (imdb)

Rizwan Khan, a Muslim from the Borivali section of Mumbai, suffers from Asperger syndrome (a form of high-functioning autism complicating socialization). The adult Rizwan marries a Hindu single mother, Mandira, in San Francisco. After 9/11, Rizwan is detained by authorities at LAX who mistake his disability for "suspicious" behavior. Following his arrest, he meets Radha, a therapist who helps him deal with his situation and his affliction...

An aging, out-of-work actress accepts one last job, though the consequences of her decision affect her in ways she didn't consider. (imdb)

When Drew is asked to watch the home of Lance , a successful entrepreneur, he believes it's the key to everything that's been missing in his life- namely a good job and some general direction. But shortly after he takes the reins of the household, a series of odd and increasingly threatening people stop by--punctuated by the home delivery of a young woman's corpse. As their failed attempts to fix the problem increase, so does the body count in this outrageous comedy of errors. (feedingmrbaldwin.com)

Despite having over 30 law enforcement agencies, Washington DC still has the highest crime rate in the US. With politics and indifference being a large factor in this, the city hires Newark PD Chief Jack Mannion, a movie-quoting, lounge-singing former NYPD transit cop who claims he can (and has successfully) cut a city's crime rate in half with his get-with-it-or-report-to-meter-maid-duty attitude, to take over as commissioner of the DC Police. (imdb)

A mother takes her children and flees an abusive ex-husband.

Jamie King (Jamie Foxx) is an aspiring actor from Terrell, Texas, who has come to Los Angeles to pursue a career in entertainment. To support himself, he works in his family's hotel, the financially strapped King's Tower, which is owned by his aunt and uncle, Helen and Junior King (Ellia English and Garrett Morris).