Matthew Shear

A group of families on a tropical holiday discover that the secluded beach where they are staying is somehow causing them to age rapidly – reducing their entire lives into a single day.

A grief-stricken cantor in a crisis of faith finds his world turned upside down when his grade school music teacher re-enters his life as his new adult Bat Mitzvah student. The two forlorn souls develop a special connection.

An anxious New York law school dropout stumbles into a job babysitting his psychiatrist's three granddaughters and falls for the girls' mother, an actress in a rocky marriage.

A stage director and an actress struggle through a grueling, coast-to-coast divorce that pushes them to their personal extremes.

An estranged family gathers together in New York for an event celebrating the artistic work of their father.

An uptight documentary filmmaker and his wife find their lives loosened up a bit after befriending a free-spirited younger couple.

A college freshman cures her disappointment and loneliness by allowing herself to be pulled into the wacky schemes of her future stepsister.

A misanthropic 20-something gay visual artist, Mark, finds himself unwittingly in New York City after he lies to his mother about a job at a prestigious art gallery. He then takes a survival job babysitting for 6-year-old Milo, whose faith in Mark is empowering and ultimately, transformative.

A young woman is forced to reflect on her first relationship when she inadvertently moves into her ex boyfriend's apartment building.

An ordinary guy delves deep into counterculture, conspiracy theories and the like as he tries to discern the structure of society.

After finding a gun on the beach, a young woman is caught up in a night of cascading misadventures as she teams up with her rich ex-boyfriend and his fiancée to return the gun to the Russian mob in exchange for her kidnapped dog.

The narrator of our story, Nate, an emotionally detached statistician with a penchant for reducing everything to percentages and probabilities, guides us through the relationship of Ben and Sarah, chronicling its chance origins with the algorithm of a dating app. What is the probability of Ben reviving his relationship with Sarah?

The story of Elliot Tiber and his family, who inadvertently played a pivotal role in making the famed Woodstock Music and Arts Festival into the happening that it was. When Elliot hears that a neighboring town has pulled the permit on a hippie music festival, he calls the producers thinking he could drum up some much-needed business for his parents' run-down motel. Three weeks later, half a million people are on their way to his neighbor’s farm in White Lake, New York, and Elliot finds himself swept up in a generation-defining experience that would change his life–and American culture–forever.

A group of young, sophisticated Jewish New Yorkers will have their ideals tested when an unexpected guest crashes their Passover Seder.