Ben and Zach are childhood friends who reunite years later to take part in an unusual quest that involves traveling into the woods in search of Ben's high school sweetheart. They are joined by their British rival Nigel, and as the stakes get higher and the squirrels turn hostile, the hapless trio attempts to navigate a raging river while realizing that sometimes nature isn't all it's cracked up to be.
On a fictional remote Scottish island, a group of refugees are placed in a temporary residence as they await the results of their asylum claims. At the heart of the story is Omar, a Syrian musician who is unable to work during his asylum process. He carries his oud, a Middle Eastern string instrument, with him at all times.
Kevin Lenahan is a con man who is framed in a jewel robbery. To escape custody, he fakes insanity before a judge and then poses as surgeon Dr. Eddie Slattery at a local hospital when he switches places with the administrator Arthur Chambers.
Overpowering a nurse and dressing in her clothes, a madman escapes from the Casa de la Loco Sanitarium. The Thief then goes on a crime spree that nets him a gun, a car, a fortune in stolen cash, and one dead loan office manager. As he escapes the murder scene, he comes upon a forbidden cemetery just as burial is taking place, replete with bagpipe music and a bizarre ceremony employing tuning forks and strange icons.
A jealous symphony conductor mistakes a private detective’s report for proof of his new wife’s infidelity and spirals into increasingly dangerous suspicions.
Micky O'Neill tries to revive the fortunes of his Liverpool nightclub by promising his patrons he will present a performance by the legendary Irish tenor Josef Locke. After a series of unfortunate bookings (including Franc Cinatra, a Sinatra impersonator), Micky books the mysterious Mr. X, a man who insists he cannot be booked as Joe Locke due to the legal issues that would invariably ensue.
Al Fountain is a middle-aged uptight electrical engineer away from his family in Chicago overseeing the construction of his company's newest manufacturing plant in the rural town of Drip Rock, Tennessee. He is mocked by the blue collar construction crew he manages until the project is called off by his company, leaving him left with nothing to do in Tennessee. Al decides to get a rental car to take a side trip for nostalgia's sake in the woodland area to find a Splatchee Lake, a tourist attraction from his childhood where he finds it polluted and encounters an elderly evangelical couple.
Michael, a San Diego policeman, travels to Los Angeles for Thanksgiving with his fiancée, Ashley (played by Jennia Fredrique), to meet her dysfunctional family and announce their engagement. While there Michael is subjected to ridicule by his fiancée's father and brother for being a cop. Michael learns that his soon to be new father in law was a member of the Black Panther Party and went to prison for attempted murder of a police officer but maintains it was self defense so he hates cops.
Barry Ryan is a late 1960s Australian mobster who controls the Sydney gambling scene and is making huge profits from casino slot machines. His profitable venture attracts the unwanted attention of the American Mafia, who attempt to secure a piece of the action by sending in two of their henchmen: the pensive, world-weary veteran Tony and his violent, not-too-bright sidekick Sal. Ryan's arch-rival Freddy tries to take over the clubs with his own machines.
Christmas film, Comedy, family film, romantic comedy
A congressional aide investigating a Guam Air Force base finds her mission complicated by its Christmas aid operation and the captain who shows her its work.
Peter Morgan, a young doctor, begins a new job at Monument Heights Veterans' Hospital in Washington, D.C. The government-funded hospital is suffering from cutbacks upheld by Executive Director Dr. Henry Dreyfoos.