"It's gloriously sunny in Cornwall as the school year starts at the little boarding school by the sea. Maggie, the newest teacher at Downey House, is determined to make her mark. She's delighted to leave the city behind and start her new teaching job, but what will it mean for her now-long-distance relationship with her safe, dependable boyfriend, Stan? Simone is excited and nervous: she's won a scholarship to the prestigious boarding school and wants...

When Kevin Gogarty's irrepressible 83-year-old mother Millie is caught shoplifting yet again, he has no choice but to hire a caretaker to keep an eye on her. Kevin, an unemployed father of four, is already at his wits end, increasingly resentful that the responsibilities of childrearing and housekeeping have fallen on him while his wife pursues her glamorous career. Rivaling his vivacious, noncompliant mother for Chief Tester of Kevin's Patience is...

Friends Hetty, Byatt, and Reece go to extremes trying to uncover the dark truth about the mysterious disease that has had them quarantined at their boarding school on a Maine island.

Robin Williams portrays English professor John Keating, who, in an age of crew cuts, sport coats and cheerless conformity, inspires his students to live life to the fullest, exclaiming "Carpe Diem, lads! Seize the day. Make your lives extraordinary!" The charismatic teacher's emotionally charged challenge is met by his students with irrepressible enthusiasm--changing their lives forever.