Burning Palms is a collection of five stories set in Sherman Oaks, California, that all converge in shocking and unexpected ways. Each story is based on a taboo topic and explores the dark side of suburban life.
A teenage girl's life takes a dark turn when her new babysitter reveals herself to be evil. As the night progresses, the girl fights to survive and protect her family from the psychopath.
A mentally fragile woman is pushed over the edge by the death of her brother, to whom she was inordinately close.
When a college student moves into a house, she uncovers a family secret involving her twin sisters and a pentagram symbol. As she delves deeper into the mystery, she is haunted by the death of her brother and experiences horrifying encounters, including gaslighting and a throat slit. With the help of a therapist and a psychologist, she must confront her fears and uncover the truth about her family.
A young woman enters college and learns some hard truths about sorority life, including snobbery and the cruelty of hazing.
An architect has an affair with a woman who inspires him. Her brother is in love with the architect's daughter. The complicated entanglement leads to misunderstanding and dissolution, but ultimately love.
A young woman trapped in a web of dark family secrets finds herself in a dangerous triangle of love, jealousy, and deception, where the truth hides in her past.
An Irish washerwoman's daughter falls in love with one of America's most eligible bachelors, much to the dismay of the girl's parents -- and the young doctor's newly acquired fiancée! Events come to a head at the charity masked ball, which the two girls happen to attend in very similar costumes, thanks to the largesse of Molly's benevolent "fairy godfather"...
Young Lena Rivers, who was born out of wedlock, goes to live with a rich uncle. Unfortunately, her uncle's wife and daughter make no secret of their dislike of Lena and that they don't want her in their family.
When an Englishman suspects his daughter of being involved in the criminal underworld, he goes to great lengths to protect her and uncover the truth in this thrilling drama.
This marriage is the second for both Mr. & Mrs. Cornelius McNitt. He is panty-whipped by his social climbing second wife. She has recruited Clifford Figfield to stage and direct a charity pageant, which is more a means for her to hobnob with the social elite, and to nab Larry Lodge, the pageant's leading man, as a husband for her flighty daughter Phyllis, the pageant's leading lady. Larry ends up only having eyes for Sally McNitt, Mr. McNitt's visiting daughter, and she, in turn has eyes for him.
The young trapeze artist Alma is part of the show of a miserable traveling circus. In an act of desperation, Alma commits incest with her father, a sick clown obsessed with the woman who abandoned them. Determined to have his child, Alma leaves the circus and joins a group of preachers led by Refugio, a woman who performs puppet shows with biblical passages in poor neighborhoods.
An unfaithful husband and his daughter go on nightly club outings, leaving the mother at home. The mother rebels against her lonesome life and attempts to prevent a man from pursuing her daughter.
Bobby Vernon must contend with an angry Eddie Baker in this funny Al Christie production.
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