After the early death of his wife, mourning father Bill Palet moves with his teenage son, Wes, across the country for a private school teaching job in southern California. At first they struggle to contain their feelings of loss, but Wes's new French teacher, Carine Roussel, stirs both toward slow change: Wes, through a homework partnership with Lacy, who's fighting depression over her parents' bitter marital collapse; and, Bill, through an unexpected liaison with Carine. Bill and Wes fight through lingering grief with Carine's and Lacy's help and begin to let go of their grief and love again, with the climactic ice cream double-date…
Smart, handsome, and charming, there is no one who could say no to college senior Sam. But when a surprise tuition bill leaves him thousands of dollars in the hole, Sam is forced to think outside the box. Convincing his three roommates they can make a killing exploiting the gullible church crowd, the guys start a sham charity and begin campaigning across the country, raising funds for a cause as fake as their message.
When aspiring mystery writer Mickey Raymond travels to Malta to research her first novel, she finds herself falling in love with Terry, a handsome, mysterious American. She also finds herself falling into a conspiracy of events, apparently fuelled as much by her vivid author's imagination as real-life events. A local police official is seemingly one step behind these events.
Samba Cissé, a migrant from Senegal to France, works as a dish washer in a hotel. After a bureaucratic slip-up lands him in detention, he is ordered to leave France. With the help of a businesswoman, he fights to stay in France.
Scotty, Matt, and Mo befriend each other while attending a physical therapy center. Twentysomething Scotty has been a paraplegic since birth and lives with his overbearing mother Liz. Matt, an Asian-American former athlete, has recently begun using a wheelchair and lives with his parents and sister.
The Three Bears, a jazz trio, are enjoying a hot jam session when their instruments catch fire. After consulting a storybook, they find that they must go out for a walk to let the instruments cool off. Across the street (in a house with a neon sign saying "GRANMA'S"), the Big Bad Wolf is expecting Red Riding Hood's arrival.
An aspiring artist, Paul Sloane, struggles in Paris and wants to return home to America to resume his relationship with his rich fiancée, Laurie. His best friend and roommate, Casey Barnett, tries to talk him out of it. When a beautiful woman, Nikki Donay, suddenly leaps into the river Seine to escape a man's attentions, Paul jumps in to save her.
Dani Barnes an excellent high-school student who receives straight As and is focused on getting a scholarship to U.C. Davis. Highly passionate about dogs, she volunteers at the local dog clinic.
Riding a white horse, Brigadier General Maximilian Rodrigues de Santos of the army of Mexico arrives at a United States border crossing with a small company of soldiers on foot. He claims to be leading his men to Laredo, Texas to march in a parade on George Washington's birthday. The soldiers' destination is actually San Antonio, where the general intends to carry out a quixotic mission to "re-occupy" the Alamo.
Hoping to pay back some gambling debt he owes to local mobster Mad Dog Flynn, Jim robs the local fishmongers, only to discover that it's actually a front for the mobster's business. Now on the run and pursued by police detective Weller, Jim is cornered in an antique shop where he takes hostage a collection of colourful characters, including American Joe Maguire, the owner who may be his illegitimate father, and his girlfriend Sophie. Caught between the mobster's gang and the police, the unfortunate young Jim must find a way out of this tricky situation with help from his hostages
Three decorated Navy pilots returned from the Pacific to Honolulu. They finagle a four-day leave in San Francisco flying there and back in a friend's PBY Catalina. They land a posh suite at the Fairmont Hotel, where Commander Andy Crewson, a master of procurement, arranges to populate it with wine, women and song.
Jason Steel is an actor who plays a compassionate doctor on a popular TV drama. He is confused with his TV role and is so beloved that women won't leave him alone, as evidenced by an all-women mob that surrounds him when he opens a new store. This, combined with him feeling that his show has gone stale, causes him a lot of stress.
The comic spoof of the Cold War was inspired by a May 1960 incident involving American Francis Gary Powers, a CIA operative whose U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union, sparking an international diplomatic incident. Writer William Peter Blatty's tale concerns John "Wrong-Way" Goldfarb, a former college football star who once ran 95 yards for a touchdown in the wrong direction. Now a U-2 pilot, his plane malfunctions and crashes in the mythical Arab kingdom of Fawzia.
Auggie Hamilton (Clark Brandon) is always looking for ways to earn a quick buck. When he learns that his friend Samantha Brooks (Tracy Griffith) is going to sell her garage to fast food king Wrangler Bob Bundy (Jim Varney) he comes up with one more scheme, to turn the garage into a burger joint. When Wrangler Bob proves to be stiff competition, they develop a secret sauce that makes people go crazy.
black comedy film, Comedy, Comedy drama, Coming-of-age, romantic comedy
Puck's introduction The story is narrated by the protagonist, Puck, who opens with a monologue describing the basic reasoning underlying his philosophy, as well as the film's general interpretation of Anarchism, as he walks through the commune he lives in, while events of his daily life are presented. Other members of the commune include Johnny Red, a 1960s radical who constantly refers to Sweden as an ideal society; Gin, Red's hippie girlfriend; Karla, a bisexual with issues of misandry; Sweeney, a promiscuous DJ who worked at a local record store; Double D, an unintelligent but goodhearted commune member, and Puck's best friend; and…
Stephanie and Terry are identical twins who have been split up since their parents divorced seven years before. Although identical in appearance, the twins are very different: Stephanie is shy but brilliant, while Terry is outgoing and loves dancing. When the twins reunite, each envies the life style of the other.
Bridget, an aimless 34-year-old, gets a summer job babysitting the rambunctious six-year-old Frances. Frances' mothers, Maya and Annie, have just had a baby boy, and Frances feels somewhat displaced by her new baby brother. Though Maya and Annie appear to be accomplished and responsible, there are fissures in their marriage, as Annie's lawyer job has her working long hours, and Maya is in a state of increasing postpartum depression.
Xiaoming, a Hong Kong car salesman, is content with his meticulously planned-out life until his girlfriend Yan Yan gets a job at the American film studio Wronald Wright Productions and breaks up their relationship. After a brief period of self-pity, he impulsively decides to travel to Los Angeles and books a place on a guided tour named "Hollywood Adventures". On the plane, he meets an exuberant movie fanatic named Fang Dawei, also a participant on the tour, and at LAX he is rescued by Wei Wei, his tour guide, from a misunderstanding with Homeland Security.
A stag weekend in the great outdoors in the west of Ireland takes some unexpected detours. Arrow Films' synopsis of The Stag is as follows: "Self-confessed metrosexual Fionnán doesn't want a stag do, but would happily attend the Hen. Ruth, the now concerned bride-to-be (Amy Huberman), promptly persuades the, marginally more-macho, best man (Andrew Scott) to organise one.
In 19th century London, young Polly Peachum falls for the famous womanizing criminal Macheath and they decide to get married, but because of her family's disapproval, her father ("the king of thieves") has Macheath arrested.
Victoria Stafford is a wealthy woman who has been engaged three times, and each time has backed out at the altar. On a train she meets the vision George McKesson dressed as an Indian, just like she envisioned her dream man when she was a child. He claims that he is a figment of her imagination and will disappear as soon as she stops thinking about him.
Gordon Comstock is a successful copywriter at a flourishing advertising firm in 1930s London. His girlfriend and co-worker, Rosemary, fears he may never settle down with her when he suddenly disavows his middle-class lifestyle and quits his paying job for the artistic satisfaction of writing poetry. Gordon's friend and publisher Ravelston, a wealthy self-described socialist, arranges a job at a bookstore and a room in a boardinghouse for him, but Gordon seethes about the bourgeoisie values of his landlady Mrs.
