Burning Plain / Before the Devil Knows You're Dead / Elegy

The Burning Plan : A drama with a two-tiered storyline concerning a mother and daughter who try to form a bond after the young woman's difficult childhood. Before the Devil Knows You're Dead : When two brothers organize the robbery of their parents' jewelry store the job goes horribly wrong, triggering a series of events that sends them, their father and one brother's wife hurtling towards a shattering climax. Elegy : Cultural critic David Kepesh finds his life -- which he indicates is a state of "emancipated manhood" -- thrown into tragic disarray by Consuela Castillo, a well-mannered student who awakens a sense of sexual possessiveness in her teacher.