15-year-old high school student William Miller (Patrick Fugit) has just won the chance to write a story about Stillwater, an up-and-coming rock band, for Rolling Stone magazine. So he joins the band on tour, makes friends with lead guitarist Russell Hammond (Billy Crudup) and groupie Penny Lane (Kate Hudson), and gets himself a ringside seat for some classic 1970s rock excesses. But with Rolling Stone demanding a story that could very well cause him to betray his newfound friends, his over-protective mother (Frances McDormand) keeping a regular check on him, and tensions within the band reaching breaking point, William finds that he must tread very carefully indeed.

Supernatural thriller/horror starring Kevin Costner. After his wife leaves him, writer John James (Costner) moves with his adolescent daughter Louisa (Ivana Baquero) and son Sam (Gattlin Griffith) to the small rural town of Mercy, South Carolina. But John's attempt to give his family a fresh start is hampered by his daughter's increasingly bizarre and difficult behaviour. Could it in some way be connected to the strange mound of earth in the forest behind their new home?