Bertha Jacoby, a Jewish widow, is convinced by her daughter, Alice Black, to move from Brooklyn, New York to Tokyo to be closer to Alice and her husband, Jerry, now stationed at the US embassy in Tokyo. Visiting Bertha with the news of the impending move to Japan, Alice and Jerry, who consider themselves liberal, are condescendingly polite to Bertha's friend, Essie, who is concerned that their neighborhood is being compromised by ethnic minorities. Bertha overlooks the otherwise good-natured Essie's prejudice, which she does not believe she shares.
On 27 November 1944, during World War II, two American fliers, Captain Hank Wilson and Sergeant Lucky Finder, have to bail out over Germany. They land in the small town of Altheim, where Wilhelm Frick reads his horoscope and it says an exciting change will happen that day. In town, the fliers hide in Frick's cellar.
Polly Parish works in the Millinery Department at J.B. Merlin & Son's department store on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. She is summoned to the office of the store manager, who informs her that she is fired because she is overselling hats, which creates too many returns and too much work for the accounting department.
In the early 1920s, Eli is a barnstorming stunt pilot in Kansas. When flying with his wife Wilma, Eli crashes into a barn. He survives by being thrown into a haystack, but his wife is killed.
The Munster family is tired of being persecuted back in Transylvania, and on finding part of a letter from cousin Marilyn in California, decides to head to the United States. On arrival they find that Marilyn's father, Norman Hyde, is missing, and her mother Elsa Hyde is in a coma. Marilyn details this in the letter but Spot burned the mail (and the letter carrier) so this comes as a surprise to the Munsters.
Sabrina has received a letter from her father asking her to try and open a mysterious antique gold locket which her Aunt Sophia is trapped inside, however she has only two weeks to do so or the magic will fade and Aunt Sophia will be lost forever. The only clue she has is that "the secret to the locket lies in Rome" so Sabrina heads for Italy and the Eternal City of Rome, for what was supposed to be "two cat-less weeks" to herself. Unknown to her she is accompanied by Salem who has stowed away in her backpack.
Larry Guthrie (Larry the Cable Guy), a dreamer from a small town, is awarded the title of "Metro County Miracle." While on his way to a child's birthday party, Larry and his girlfriend Brooke (Erin Beute) stop at a raffle for a Camaro convertible. Larry puts his name in the raffle, against Brooke’s will, and wins the chance to get the car. In order to win, Larry has three chances to knock down two bowling pins on either side of the lane.
Wilbur Walsh (Bud Spencer) and Matt Kirby (Terence Hill) are in Miami, looking for work as longshoremen. The area is managed by shady dealers who refuse to give them a job. The dealers are beaten up and have three of their cars wrecked in the process.
An English cartographer, Robinson Crusoe and his pet Airedale Terrier, Aynsley have booked passage on a ship to the New World. During a violent storm, the two are accidentally locked in the ship's belowdeck along with a pair of spoiled British Shorthairs, Mal and May, while the crew escapes with their lives. He is knocked unconscious by a Lantern leaving Aynsley mourning over his master.
Rick Todd is a struggling painter and smooth-talking ladies' man. His goofy young roommate Eugene Fullstack is an aspiring children's author who has a passion for comic books, especially those of the mysterious and sexy "Bat Lady". Each night, Eugene has horrific screaming nightmares inspired by those ultra-violent comics, which he describes aloud in his sleep.
During a music showcase at the Premiere movie theater, Drake (Drake Bell) performs his new song "Makes Me Happy" for a music deal from record producer Alan Krim (mentioned in the series' first television film) and he succeeds. While at Spin City Records, they agree to put the song in a commercial for Daka Shoe Company's "Air Puffs" line that will air during the Super Bowl. Meanwhile, theater manager Helen Dubois (Yvette Nicole Brown) is getting married and, with many of her family members staying in her apartment, her grandmother Lula comes to stay at the Parker-Nichols house for the week, forcing Drake and Josh (Josh Peck) to share their…
Tatiana Mills (Odeya Rush), a 16-year-old American girl, lives a quasi-chaotic life with her single mother Darlene (Katie Holmes), who is in a complex romantic relationship with her married boss Dr. Charles (Seth Green) who is a dentist with a foot fetish. In a letter-writing exercise started by her Social studies teacher Mr.
Loveable losers Kate and Chloe are best friends with a not-so-firm grip on reality. The girls have been inseparable ever since tying for dead last at a kiddie beauty pageant as children. Now they are all grown up and living in New York City, where Chloe is a "rising star" dancing in a glass box at a nightclub, and Kate is the "CEO" of her own one-woman egg-donor "corporation." Their past humiliations at the pageant remain long forgotten until they receive an invitation to the pageant's milestone anniversary celebration.
Sam and Baggy are two non-committal slackers who waste their time on nonsensical pursuits while dreaming of greater things in life. Paris and Zeke are two guardian angels who confront them with plans for change. Paris is a former dolphin, while Zeke is a former squirrel.
Photographer Harry Sterndale is diagnosed with stomach cancer and told he has just six weeks to live. Once a successful photographer, Harry was bankrupted by an investment scam pushed on him by his shallow ex-wife Lisa, who promptly left him for another man. After brooding for a few days, the usually mild-mannered Harry becomes set on revenge.
After an increasing number of his clients fail to make good on their payments, Mr Thigo decides to take matters into his own hands, travelling to London to make an example of local bad boy and debtor Nick. Thigo gives Nick just 24 hours to pay back the £100,000 he owes, and, as an incentive, Thigo holds Nick's wheelchair-using mother hostage. Since Nick is already financially challenged, he is forced to be creative in order to come up with the money.
Oliver Cromwell Oglivie (also known as "O.C.") and Mark Stiggs are two ne'er-do-well, middle-class Phoenix, Arizona high school students. Disgusted with what they see as an omnipresent culture of vulgar and vapid suburban consumerism, they spend their days slacking off and committing pranks and outright crimes victimizing their nemeses, the Schwab family. The patriarch of the Schwab family, Randall Schwab, is a wealthy regional insurance salesman responsible for the involuntary commitment of O.C.'s grandfather into a group home.
The rebellious teenage dropout, Emelia Conan Doyle, believes herself to be a descendant of Arthur Conan Doyle. She takes on a job as a cleaner in a seaside hotel owned by Jonathan Fischer. Jonathan is a writer from Germany who has struggled with writer's block since his successful first novel, The Cliff House, was published 21 years before.
The film follows a witch and her cat, who fly together on their broomstick. One morning, the witch casts a spell that causes an explosion, awaking a nearby dragon. The witch and the cat then fly away together.
Former student radical Moses Wine now works as a private investigator. He is contacted by Lila, an ex-girlfriend from his college days, who is working in the election campaign for Miles Hawthorne, a politician who is running to be Governor of California. Lila takes Moses to meet Hawthorne's campaign coordinator Sam Sebastian, who is concerned about a fake campaign flyer supposedly showing former Berkeley radical Howard Eppis together with Hawthorne and endorsing him.
thumb|left|Henry Fonda (center) and Kevin McCarthy in The Best Man In May 1964, former Secretary of State William Russell and Senator Joe Cantwell are the two leading candidates for the presidential nomination of their unnamed political party. Both have potentially fatal vulnerabilities. Russell is a principled intellectual, but his sexual indiscretions and lack of attention to his wife Alice have alienated her.
Roby Thomas migrates to the U.S. with the help of a priest and works as a barman in a casino in Las Vegas. Roby is a simple youngster who believes in helping people in distress but he has a suicidal tendency.
In Fresno, California, optimistic Martha Jackson works as a housekeeper at a local hotel. Her older sister Shannon is a sex addict and frequently goes to rehab. Since Shannon is unemployed, Martha offers her a job as a housekeeper at the hotel.
