In Santa Barbara, California, snobbish teenager Carol Pringle tells her best friend Judy Foster that famous bandleader Xavier Cugat will be the guest of honor at their high school dance that night. Carol convinces her younger brother Ogden "Oogie" Pringle to cancel his dance date with Judy, claiming that women are more drawn to men who ignore them. When Judy learns that Oogie has decided not to take her to the dance, she becomes infuriated and vows to end their friendship.
Elizabeth and Kevin live in NYC in the loft above his glassblowing studio and are expecting their first child. Believing she has gone into labor, they hurry to the hospital. But, once there, the obstetrician tells her she was having Braxton Hicks contractions.
In the summer of 1918 in the little town of Brailsford Junction in central Wisconsin, Willard North takes his son Sterling out into the woods, where a lynx surprises a family of raccoons, who run away, leaving a young raccoon behind. Sterling brings the raccoon home and names him Rascal. As Willard has to leave for work, his daughter, Theo, lines up interviews for a potential live-in housekeeper before returning to her job in Chicago.
Comic book fan Donald "Don" Swan battles against a fictional film studio that is about to announce a film based on his favorite superhero, Commander Courage (a parody of Batman).
In June 1897, English gentleman Rudolf Rassendyll takes a fishing vacation in Ruritania, a small kingdom in the Balkans. While there, he is puzzled by the odd reactions of the natives to him. Rassendyll discovers why when he meets Colonel Zapt and Captain Fritz von Tarlenheim.
Jefferson Bailey (Scott McGinnis) runs the most popular video arcade in town, much to the chagrin of local businessman Joseph Rutter (Joe Don Baker). With his two bumbling nephews, Rutter aims to frame Bailey and have his business shut down. Bailey, however, is wise to Rutter's plan and teams with best friends Eugene Groebe (Leif Green) and McDorfus (Jim Greenleaf) to stop this scheme, which also involves a video game duel with punker King Vidiot (Jon Gries).
Set in New York City, Women in Revolt follows three disillusioned women—Candy, Jackie, and Holly—who form a radical feminist group called P.I.G. ("Politically Involved Girls"). Candy Darling plays Candy, a wealthy but unhappy heiress trapped in an incestuous relationship with her brother.
A man named Dave is fired from his job after his girlfriend frames him for embezzlement. Meanwhile, his friend and housemate Andrew, an agoraphobic travel agent, is falsely accused of attempted child molestation, and their house is to be demolished by day's end. Both of them hide inside the house as police, city officials, and outraged neighbors surround it.
The year is 1929 and sound films are arriving. Once a great star of the silent era, Jolly Grimm has wealth, a mansion, a manservant, Tex, and a beautiful and faithful mistress, Queenie, but no longer Hollywood's interest. He desperately tries to get studio executives interested in his self-financed latest project, so he decides to throw a huge party at his house and show the film footage to the attendees.
Quentin "Fifty Dollah" Waise is involved in a crime ring that earns him good money but worries his grandmother Odetta, who dotes on him and encourages him to follow a more righteous path. Fifty Dollah's brother Miles "Foolish" Waise, who got his nickname from Odetta, is an aspiring comedian, but his inability to get his career going convinces his older sibling he's wasting his talents. The movie pays homage to several of Griffin's idols, such as Redd Foxx, Robin Harris and Sammy Davis Jr.
Montgomery "Monti" Ward, a male hustler in Los Angeles, lies dead in a hot tub. In a voiceover, he narrates the events that led to this fate. Sometime earlier, Monti steals the wallet of one of his tricks, and in his haste fleeing the scene commits a hit and run that cripples a fellow hustler named Eigil.
Cora and Ellen are two women living in Edinburgh. Ellen, the more straight-laced of the pair, is a budding cartoonist with prospects to run her own business alongside her colleague Stanley. Quirky Cora is a single mother-to-be who dropped out of university.
When Nikki South (Amanda Pays) inherits the contents of a bank strongbox left by her father, former gangland boss Jack South, shortly before his death in 1975, she realises that the contents form a clue to the number of a Swiss bank account used to stash her father's ill-gotten gains. Nikki is waylaid on her way to her birthday party. The masked attackers try to wrestle the clues, kept in an envelope, from her, but she is rescued by Terry McCann (Dennis Waterman), who is working as a temporary doorman at the club where the party is to be held.
United States Navy officer Lieutenant Junior Grade (j.g.) Ted Jackson is a former U.S. Navy explosive ordnance disposal officer who divides his time between twin careers as a deep-sea diver and nightclub singer. Ted discovers what he believes could be a fortune in Spanish gold aboard a sunken ship and sets out to rescue it with the help of go-go dancing yoga expert Jo Symington and friend Judd Whitman.
Reagan Wills (Siena Agudong) is excited about her try for the girls soccer club the Crush, the number one girls' soccer club in the state and 3-time Diamond Cup champion. However, her parents are preoccupied by recruiting visits for their son Logan, who is a star on his high school football team. On her way to the tryout, her bike chain breaks, causing her to be late.
Richard, a 22-year-old Scottish undertaker and obituary writer, dreams of becoming a screenwriter and is dissatisfied with his mundane life in Bradford, Northern England. During a burial, he meets Barbara, a young aspiring Hollywood actress briefly visiting Bradford, and the two develop a connection. Barbara returns home and brags about the British writer she met while away.
Petey Wheatstraw (Rudy Ray Moore) is born during a great Miami hurricane, and after a difficult labor by his mother, emerges as a talking, diaper-wearing, six-year-old boy who promptly attacks the doctor and then his father. His mother stops him, puts him in his place, and names him "Petey Wheatstraw". While a young teenager, after being beaten up by a gang, Petey meets a mentor named "Bantu" who teaches him the philosophy of "Kung Fu" and "self-respect", taking a vow not to bow before any man, living or dead.
Young Ricardo Quintana is preparing to voyage from Argentina to New York to sell some of his father's prize horses. Before leaving, Don Diego Quintana instructs his son that no steeds are to be sold to Binnie Crawford or any member of her family because her brother Willis cheated him years earlier. Upon arriving in New York and displaying his horses at a racetrack, Ricardo falls in love with Glenda Crawford, and goes to dinner with her later that evening.
Jade Li is a witty Chinese-Canadian aspiring actress who lives at home with her traditional Chinese family, which includes her strict father, her dutiful mother, and younger sister Pearl. Jade and Pearl's older brother, Winston, has been disowned—a fate Jade is not eager to share, both for her own sake and to spare her family pain. Her family tries to put on the perfect public persona at all costs so as to maintain their dignity as well as uphold their traditional Chinese values.
James "Jamie" Roberts, being a pop idol, is used to having his way with women. He meets child psychologist Diana Lawson in a car accident; however, she has never heard of him and doesn't swoon at his attention. He tries to win her affection, but complicating things is his ex-lover, Nicky Nides, who remains a member of his band.
The Clock family (tiny human-like "Borrowers") live under the floorboards at the Driver–Millman house, suspected but so far uncaught by the Matriarch, Mrs Driver (Victoria Wood). Daughter Arrietty Clock (Aisling Loftus) is seen by her grandson, James Millman (Charlie Hiscock) and they become friends, but his grandmother's suspicions are heightened. Lifting a floorboard, she finds missing items, including furniture from James' dead mother's dollhouse.
