Rita Hayworth and Shawshank redemption: An unjustly imprisoned convict seeks a strange and startling revenge. Apt pupil: The story of top high school student Todd Bowden and his obsession with the dark and deadly past of an older man in town. The body: Four rambunctious young boys plunge through the facade of a small town and come face-to-face with life, death, and intimations of their own mortality. The breathing method: A disgraced woman is determined to triumph over death.