A group of National Guard trainees on a routine mission find themselves up against cannibalistic mutants in the New Mexico desert.

11-year-old Akeelah Anderson has a way with words. After winning her schoolwide spelling bee, she decides to enter the competition, despite her classmates’ derision and the antipathy of her mother…

A small, turbulent town in Texas obsesses over their high school football team to an unhealthy degree. When the star tailback, Boobie Miles, is seriously injured during the first game…

A Hawaiian teenage surfer shows off his skills when he takes to the snow slopes in Vermont.