Maxine Herman
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Teenage Zoe Tyler suffers from manic-depression. With a musician father who is never around life seems hard. Zoe eventually lands up in a psychiatric ward for treatment. There she meets Jake, an unstable teenager with an anger problem. They fall in love and are soon separated by their doctors, psychiatrists and parents. Fuming, Jake suddenly sees a chance for escape and takes Zoe with him, along with a few other patients. After a trip around the country, Jake and Zoe must face up to their illness and their crime.
On the Edge of Innocence

Four small-time, two-bit character actors, all close friends, compete for the same important part in the next Martin Scorsese mob film.
With Friends Like These
"Night City Angels", featuring the wonderful music of Michael Kamen, is about a troubled young woman and her guardian angel, Amelia Earhart (whom only she can see, of course). Amelia is a member of an ad hoc committee, composed of Harriet Tubman, Joan of Arc, Daddy Bigbucks and Aristotle, to do something about other angels that do nothing but sit around and play their harps all day.