The film is presented as a series of vignettes centered around Byrne as an unnamed, cowboy-hat-wearing stranger who visits the fictional Texas town of Virgil, where he observes the citizens as they prepare for the "Celebration of Specialness" to mark the 150th anniversary of Texas' independence. The event is being sponsored by the Varicorp Corporation, a local computer manufacturing plant. Among the many characters the visitor meets and interacts with, the most prominent are: Louis Fyne, a country-western-singing clean room technician at Varicorp who is unlucky in love Civic leader Earl Culver, who never speaks directly to his wife, Kay…
Models, designers, industry hot shots and journalists gather for Paris Fashion Week, to work, bicker and try to seduce each other. Early on, Fashion Council head Olivier de la Fontaine chokes to death on a sandwich, leaving behind a wife, a mistress and a mysterious Russian companion who has fled the scene. As the death is being investigated, Fashion Week continues.
Evangeline (Eva) Dandridge works for the Los Angeles Health Department as an inspector, a job well-suited for her bossy and perfectionist nature. She and her sisters—Kareenah, Bethany and Jacqui—have been taking care of each other since their parents died when they were young. As a result of the combination of her personality and her family's circumstances, Eva's level of involvement in her sisters' lives causes a high level of tension between her and her sisters' significant others (Tim, Mike and Darrell, respectively).
During Manhattan debutante season, middle-class Princeton student Tom Townsend attends a deb ball on a whim. A mix-up over a taxi home introduces him to a small group of young Upper East Side socialites known as the Sally Fowler Rat Pack, after the girl whose fancy apartment they use for afterparties. The Rat Pack invites him to the night's afterparty to prevent ill feelings.
Grimm is a burned out New Yorker who's down on his luck. He longs to escape his miserable life in New York City - and the country - but is lacking the means to do so. Desperate, he dresses up as a clown and robs a bank in midtown Manhattan.
Somewhere in the jungles of South Africa on Thanksgiving 1996, a multinational military unit named Special Force Unit ambushes a convoy and kidnaps several scientists working on a highly-volatile compound extracted from a recently discovered meteorite. Among the operatives is a Hong Kong national identified as "Jackie Chan". The CIA assigns Agent Morgan to investigate the incident, unaware that he and newly retired General Sherman orchestrated the abduction for their personal profit.
Pee-wee Herman lives an idyllic life on a farm with his assistant Vance, a talking pig. There he grows vegetables, dreams of being a famous singer, has a daily lunch with his fiancée, school teacher Winnie Johnson, and conducts agronomical experiments in a secure greenhouse. One day after lunch with Winnie, he walks into Mr.
Martin Harvey is a middle-aged office worker who lives in Chicago with his wife, Katherine, 16-year-old daughter, Caroline, and 11-year-old son, Ben. When he learns his recently deceased uncle has bequeathed him a 60-foot yacht once owned by Clark Gable, he decides to take his family to the island of St. Pomme de Terre ("Saint Potato") to retrieve it so he can sell it.
Comedy, Drama, Family Drama, romantic comedy, Sitcom
George Monroe, a jaded architectural model fabricator, is living the bachelor's life in the old family shack on the coast of California. Over the years, George has been avoiding getting up to modern CAD technology standards and eventually is fired from the architecture firm. When the principal owner refuses to let George keep a few of his models, he destroys all but one of the models with a roll of design plans.
16-year-old Monroe "Mo" Harris is escorted out of class by a police officer. When Mo was younger, his older sister Kate dated her classmate Isaac "Zeke" Presanti. Even after she broke up with him, Zeke and Mo remained close friends, despite their age difference.
In 1985, Brian Jackson is a first-year university student in English Literature and an information sponge. Since his working-class childhood in Southend-on-Sea, Brian has loved the TV quiz show University Challenge. After arriving at University of Bristol, Brian attends a party where he meets left-wing Jewish student Rebecca.
In Mystery, Alaska, "the Saturday Game", a weekly hockey game, is played on an open pond. The entire town turns out every week to watch. The latest edition of Sports Illustrated features an article which says that in the ability to skate, the Mystery team rivals any team in the National Hockey League (NHL).
In 2008, coach Rob Gibson leads his high school boys' basketball team to victory in a third back-to-back state championship in Nashville. Fifteen years later, Rob finds himself in the midst of a divorce and is fired from his coaching position. Desperate, Rob accepts a job at a drag queen restaurant, where he finds his former star point guard, Alex Cruise, also working.
Sewage workers Gordie Boggs and Sean Dawkins watch their favorite wrestler, undefeated and undisputed WCW World Heavyweight Champion Jimmy King, get cheated out of the title by Diamond Dallas Page (DDP), promoter Titus Sinclair, and DDP's wrestling stable at a Monday Nitro event. After the match, the duo expresses their rage while driving in their septic truck, resulting in a car crash which they survive. Gordie starts believing that the crash was supposed to happen and that they should make Jimmy King once again the WCW World Heavyweight Champion.
left|thumb|Barbara Stanwyck as Elizabeth Lane in Christmas in Connecticut Elizabeth Lane is a single New Yorker, employed as a lifestyle writer, renowned for her recipes and homemaking tips. Her articles about her fictitious Connecticut farm, husband, and baby are admired by readers across the country. Her publisher, Alexander Yardley, is unaware of the charade and insists that Elizabeth host a Christmas dinner for returning war hero Jefferson Jones, who read all of her recipes while in the hospital and is so fond of them that his nurse/fiancée Mary Lee wrote a letter to the publisher.
Whittier arrives at the fictional California State College, hoping to join the national champion varsity cheerleading team. She meets her friend from cheer camp, Monica, and they both put on impressive performances at tryouts. Head cheerleader Tina is ready to ask them to join the team, but fellow cheerleader Greg goes a step further, telling Tina that Whittier will be the next head cheerleader.
buddy film, Comedy horror, Dark Comedy, Treasure hunt, zombie comedy
Larry Wilson and Richard Parker are at a Manhattan morgue where they see the corpse of their CEO, Bernie Lomax. Larry falsely claims Bernie as his uncle so he can get some of Bernie's possessions, including Bernie's credit card. At the insurance company, Larry and Richard are quizzed by their boss and Arthur Hummel, the company's internal investigator, who ask them if they have the $2 million that Bernie embezzled.
A school teacher named Richard moves from New York City to a small town in Texas, and begins work at a new school. Shortly after this, Richard gets outed by the community in this town and is consequently fired, which is legal under state law in Texas. Following this, Richard feels the need to get revenge on the people that were hateful to him, so he returns as Bianca Del Rio, his drag persona, and spreads his hate and causes mayhem to those that were mean to him, who are oblivious to the fact that Del Rio is actually the previously fired Richard.
Veteran publicist Lee Phillips is fired from his position at a major film studio. Studio head Dave Kingman later invites him back for a private screening of Time Over Time, a new time travel thriller starring Gwen Harrison and Eddie Thomas. Eddie and Gwen were a beloved husband-and-wife team dubbed "America's Sweethearts" whose marriage fell apart when Gwen had an affair with her co-star Hector, causing Eddie to suffer a mental breakdown and check into a remote New Age wellness retreat.
Christmas film, Comedy, Family Comedy, romantic comedy
Just before Christmas, wealthy advertising executive Drew Latham surprises his girlfriend, Missy Vangilder with first-class tickets to Fiji, but she is horrified that he would want to spend Christmas away from his family. Citing the fact that Drew has never even introduced her to his family, she concludes that he will never get serious about their relationship and dumps him. Drew has his assistant send her a Cartier bracelet to apologize.
Alexander Garcia is convinced that his family is cursed due to the constant accident-prone incidents that he may or may not have caused. He lives with his older sister, Mia, who is waiting to get asked to the prom, his mother, Val, who is a travel journalist, his father, Frank, whose restaurant is getting shut down (unbeknownst to the family), and his grandmother and Frank's mother, Lidia. They are visited by Val's father, Gil, who has come to watch over their dog, Clyde, while they go on a road trip paid for by Val's magazine.
Alice unwillingly prepares a performance of the song "Cherry Ripe" for her parents' garden party; facing stage fright of performing a song she dislikes to an audience of strangers, she hides in the woods. There, she sees the White Rabbit and follows him to a rabbit hole, which leads her to Wonderland. Alice attempts to enter a small door leading to a beautiful garden, but accidentally grows to giant size and floods the room with tears before shrinking to the size of a mouse.
Dolemite is a pimp, comedian, and nightclub owner who is serving twenty years in prison after being set up by a rival, Willie Green, and framed by police detectives Mitchell and White, at the direction of Mayor Daley. Released by the governor thanks to lobbying by fellow pimp "Queen Bee", Dolemite is freed in order to discover the source of the out-of-control drug problem in the "Fourth Ward" of the city, and take revenge on the corruption that put him in prison. He rekindles his reputation on the streets while trying to get back his "Total Experience" club from the hands of Willie Green.
