Whitaker plays Eddie Presley, a former successful owner of a chain of pizza restaurants who, against the wishes of his father (Joe Estevez) and mother (Whitaker's real-life mother Barbara), decides to sell his business in the pursuit of living his dream of becoming an Elvis Presley impersonator, going so far as to legally change his last name to "Presley". After several years, he's living in his van and desperate for work. After his boss (Lawrence Tierney) fires Presley from his night security job for sleeping (with the Polaroids to back it up), he finally lands a gig in a seedy Hollywood bar (managed by Roscoe Lee Brown).
Richard is obsessed with medieval war re-enactment. After he turns up late to his father-in-law's funeral, still wearing Viking costume, his wife Cath kicks him out. Richard's honour is further damaged when Cath starts dating his son's PE teacher, Gary.
A British actor attempts to impress two visiting American women, Efflie Floud and her tomboyish daughter Agatha, by asking the cast of his drawing-room comedy to pose as his aristocratic family. Effie persuades the butler character, Humphrey, really a struggling American actor named Arthur Tyler, to accompany them to the United States and help to refine her husband and daughter. She sends a telegram home referring to the person whom she believes is Humphrey as a "gentleman's gentleman", which the rural western townfolk misunderstand as meaning that he is an aristocrat and presumably Agatha's future husband.
Young surfer, local beach jock and ladies' man Mike Samson meets Delilah Dawes. At first, he tries to add her to his collection of women, but she rejects him because she finds him chauvinistic and shallow, so he disguises himself as a nerdy twin brother named Herbert. Publisher Harvey Pulp plans to start a new magazine called Teen Scream.
American orphan Barbara "Ching-Ching" Stewart lives in Sanchow, China with her missionary guardians. When bandits threaten the village, she is sent to Shanghai for safety. Accidentally separated from her guide, Ching-Ching finds herself alone in Shanghai with her dog, Mr.
Eccentric Miss Pudd is the owner of what she considers an antiques store but most would call a junkyard. She frequently refuses to part with her merchandise because of its sentimental or historical value. However, she does agree to lend some items to two boys, Alby and Chris, who befriend her.
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Chris and Sean meet by chance when the latter thwarts a strange attack on the former at a public library. This leads to a whirlwind romance between the two and soon, a marriage. But Sean does not suspect that his new bride, whom he believes to be a simple travel agent, is in fact a spy working for the U.S.
In high school, Marc Pease (Jason Schwartzman) ran out on his performance as the Tin Man in a production of The Wiz, succumbing to his stage fright despite his mentor Mr. Jon Gribble's (Ben Stiller) encouragement. Eight years later, he is dating Meg Brickman (Anna Kendrick), a high school senior who is bitter about being in the chorus and not having a principal role in Gribble's latest production of The Wiz.
Lisa, a 50-year-old filmmaker, leaves France to start a new life in Los Angeles. She stays with her gay friend Luka, who had moved to L.A. from France five years earlier and runs his own business, a drag queen bar.
Danny Robertson and his wife Jennifer are happily married, except for one major issue: he is doubtful about having children, and she desperately wants to have a baby. Jennifer stops using birth control and does not inform Danny, straining their relationship, particularly after she discovers that they have fertility problems. Danny and Jennifer are tempted to stray from their marriage as their conception woes mount.
Judy LeRoy, a chorus girl with dreams of Hollywood stardom, is promoted out of the chorus to play a human football in the Broadway musical Quarterback Kelly. On her way to a dance rehearsal, Judy accidentally bumps into Melvin Hoover, the bumbling assistant to Look magazine photographer Mergo, in Central Park, and after a brief argument, they go their separate ways. That night, after seeing Judy's picture on a poster for Quarterback Kelly, Melvin uses his press credentials and watches her football number from backstage.
In Brooklyn, New York a group of high school students in the late 1950s are coming of age. Bic Bickham, a student at a vocational high school in Brooklyn falls in love with Devlin Moran, a private school student from a wealthy family.
Katt Williams decides that he wants to make it big in Hollywood, and meets with a pair of producers who attempt to woo him with pitches for films featuring stereotypical storylines and roles used by other African-American comedians, such as wearing a "fat suit", portraying multiple characters, or starring in comedic parodies of other popular movies. Dissatisfied with the offer, Williams decides to hit the road with a group of friends, notably, comedians Red Grant, Melanie Comarcho and Luenell, willing to perform every chance they get. The first half of the movie features (scripted) stand-up by Williams' companions, as they drive from one…
Professional Whalers football player Mike Hanson gets seriously injured shortly after recovery from another injury, so must go into the injured reserve. Nursing broken ribs, he returns to his hometown to his brother Jimmy's. While there, Mike is convinced to assistant coach his niece Zoey's all-girl flag football team.
Two stoners, Pat (DeRay Davis) and Darius (Lil Duval) embark on a plan to grow marijuana and sell it to dispensaries. Unfortunately, the two know how to smoke weed, but not how to grow it.
An Italian gangster, Cesare Celli, formerly active in Chicago but now retired in his homeland of Italy, is kidnapped by Harry Price and his gang. Much to everyone's disappointment, none of Cesare's friends or associates is willing to pay a ransom to get him back. His professional pride offended by this development, Cesare offers to assist Harry and girlfriend Juliana in pulling off a daring heist that could net them $5 million.
Mark Furness (Sheen), once a successful architect, finds it increasingly difficult to control his "bad habits", such as climbing stairs in a strange sequence, swearing involuntarily and washing himself compulsively. His wife, Stevie (Griffith) asks him to leave their home, so he seeks solace with his best friends Nathan (Bower) and Kathy (Blakley), who take him under their wing. His life gets even worse when, at a meeting with his employers, he finds himself swearing uncontrollably and loses his job.
Volodya is an aspiring writer from Siberia. His first short story has just been published in the magazine Yunost ("Youth"); and a famous author, Voronin, has invited him to Moscow to discuss his work. In the Moscow Metro Volodya unexpectedly makes a friend, Kolya (Nikita Mikhalkov), who is returning home after a hard night shift.
left|thumb|thumbtime=15|Battling Butler (1926) thumb|Battling Butler ad in Motion Picture News, 1926 Alfred Butler is a scion of a wealthy family, but an embarrassment to his father as Alfred is a slight, gentle young man, accustomed to ease and luxury. His father suggests a hunting and fishing trip to toughen him up. Alfred goes on the trip, accompanied by his chauffeur / personal valet.
Telling her fiancé Tom that she must spend a week with her sick grandmother, Janet instead goes to the flat of Hoffman, a recently divorced executive whom she hardly knows from the firm where she works. Her visit is not voluntary; Hoffman claims to have evidence that could send Tom to jail and has blackmailed her into spending the week with him. Although he desires Janet, Hoffman is still bitter about women and, without pressuring her physically, bullies her psychologically.
A meeting of the "Council of Culture" is taking place in New York City. The council is collecting various art forms for inclusion in a time capsule, However, the council members refuse to consider having mention of burlesque entertainment in their time capsule. News of the decisions reaches a trio of burlesque comics (Jack Diamond, Mandy Kay and Charles Harris), who disrupt the council's meeting by imitating gangsters.
Billy Green, who was known as the King of Valley Stream (New York) among his peers in high school, is now kind of a loser, after peaking in high school. While he works as a restroom attendant in a Las Vegas nightclub, he tells everyone back home that he is a club investor, hobnobbing with the rich and famous who frequent the club. He has to go home to Valley Stream for Thanksgiving weekend to collect all his belongings from his parents' house before they move to Santa Fe.
