Laurel and Hardy find themselves employed at a struggling circus, initially performing as part of a Pantomime horse act and later as assistants to the strongman, Destructo. Their involvement inadvertently leads to the destruction of the Big Top during a mishap in Destructo's cannonball-catching routine, resulting in financial ruin for the circus. As compensation for their unpaid wages, Oliver is assigned a gorilla named Ethel, while Stan receives ownership of a Flea Circus.
Eight-year-old Ardal Travis has a crush on his second grade class teacher, Ms. Purdy, and demonstrates his love by giving her a toy ring. Subsequently, while out shopping with his mother, Ardal sees Ms.
Biopicture about Mary Kay Ash, cosmetics queen and business woman. She tells her story of her rise to fame to the inquiring reporter Annika Kern. Her powerful position is threatened by the much younger Jinger Heath.
Two thieves rob a large fancy house when the owner is away, but when a visitor mistakes them for the owner, and they find out about a casting party misscheduled for that day, they decide to stick around for fun. They have only one small problem, though. The real owners owe some bad dudes a lot of money, and they show up to collect it.
In 1920s New York, amorous opera star Augustino "Gus" Caraffa encounters Isabelle Perry, a naive music student from Mississippi and one of his most devoted admirers. When a newspaper photographer captures them in a compromising kiss, a marriage of convenience is proposed to avoid scandal. Isabelle, secretly in love with Gus, agrees to the arrangement, hoping that he will eventually return her feelings.
A popular performer, Jeannie Laird decides to buy her first house and celebrate with a big party. The guests' enjoyment is interfered with by the happenings at the home of the next door neighbor, Bill Carter. Carter is a comic-strip artist.
Alexander Finn is a high school student, befriending fellow outcasts Darius and Stuart. Alex has a crush on a girl named Lo, whom popular student Cole Winnard has a crush on too. One day, multimedia teacher Mr.
I'll Be Next Door for Christmas is a story of a sixteen-year-old girl, Nicky, who lives in Santa Clarita, California, with her family who are crazy for the Christmas holidays. Her family's over-the-top Christmas celebrations have made her life miserable. At a special summer camp for musicians and actors, Nicky meets the boy of her dreams, Tanner (Bolanos).
Varietease was Klaw's first documentary film reflective of burlesque clubs of the 1950s. Master of ceremonies Bobby Shields introduces the film's acts. Bettie Page performs a nudity-free Dance of the Seven Veils but teases in only removing four veils.
On Christmas Eve, Guido “Gig” Panimba (Joseph Bologna) and Pandora “Panda” Gold (Renée Taylor) each morosely wander the streets of Manhattan and later join an emergency group therapy meeting designed to help the participants break self-destructive patterns. Each person lists his or her neuroses, ranging from bed-wetting to paranoia. When it is Panda's turn, we learn she is there on her 4th emergency session.
Mangus Spedgewick is a typical high schooler living with his war veteran father, Mangus Sr., and neglectful stepmother, Raquel (Deborah Theaker), in a little town called River City, in Texas. It is a family tradition for the young male Spedgewicks to portray Jesus in the town production of Jesus Christ Spectacular, and Mangus is very excited about the upcoming auditions. Mangus auditions with other boys, including a talented and flamboyant classmate, Farrell Williamson, who is the mayor's son.
The film opens with a quote from Virginia Woolf: "For beyond the difficulty of communicating oneself there is the supreme difficulty of being oneself". This introduces the viewer to charismatic filmmaker Anna, who is facing a midlife crisis on her 40th birthday. She has neither a job nor a girlfriend, and lives in her friend Charlie's garage in Los Angeles.
Clara Hilton is a shrewd, but kindly old lady mostly ignored by the rest of her family. When her cantankerous uncle Simon dies, he unexpectedly leaves her the bulk of his considerable estate - his house, six racing greyhounds, a crooked game, a pub and a brothel - because she alone would see to the well-being of those dependent on him, and was the only one looking after another when he held his 80th birthday party. Clara keeps Simon's valet Henry Martin on to assist her.
Having just opened their new electrical supplies store, Laurel and Hardy go to the grocery store next door to introduce themselves to the owner, Mr. Hall. Hall and his wife recognize them from an incident where they met in the mountains (Them Thar Hills).
Life for shy 21-year-old Tim Maitland is not always smooth sailing. His mum Jean is a cafeteria worker by day who hits the comedy club circuit by night, while his dad John is busy trying to recapture his fifteen minutes of fame from when he was a country and western singer back in 1975. But when the feisty beautiful Jill walks into Tim's life, things seem to be looking up.
An American fashion photographer, Ben Morris (James Garner), goes to Guadagil, a remote village in South America, to take pictures of model Alison Duquesne (Eva Renzi) for a lipstick ad. One of the lipsticks is called "Pink Jungle". She arrives soon after Ben does, escorted by Raul Ortega (Michael Ansara) from the tourist board.
Intelligent aliens who have been studying Earth for centuries decide to challenge mankind by sending in a 185-foot, laser-eyed monster called Zarkorr to wreak city-crushing havoc. Only one incredibly average young man, postal worker Tommy Ward (Rhys Pugh), can find the beast's weakness and save the planet with the help of a 6-inch-tall pixie (Torie Lynch), who says she is "a mental image projected into his brain" by the aliens. She explains that Zarkorr cannot be destroyed by weapons, but that the key to the monster's destruction lies within the monster itself.
In New York City in the early 1950s, Jerry Biffle is the star of the Blendo Soap Program. He has been invited to participate in an autograph-signing party for his new book at an important department store. He meets Sally Peters, one of the department store models, and makes her part of his TV troupe.
The film goes against the view that straight men and women can't just be friends. It brings this true by telling the story of Chucks (Blossom Chukwujekwu) nicknamed by his friends as the Terminator, an ardent player with ladies, whose quest to proveng this law to his friends brings him three women he must re-seduce: Ify (Ufuoma McDermott), Tomi (Toyin Aimakhu) and Ejiro (Omoni Oboli), whose lives have drastically changed. And this must be done within 21 days.
Harold McMurphy (Piven) is a single, 30-year-old, Hollywood-obsessed tour bus driver in Beverly Hills who works for his father's struggling tour company. He dreams of finding a perfect woman that will love him for who he is, despite his father's insistence that he lower his standards. When two women from a tour ask Harold where they can see Hollywood stars, he directs them to a trendy Hollywood cafe where his best friend, Danny (Jeffrey D.
On the day they are to marry three sisters, the Stooges learn that their prospective father-in-law, a jail warden, has fallen victim to the machinations of a criminal gang that has taken control of the jail and incarcerated him. The Stooges resolve to liberate him. They decide to get themselves arrested in order to infiltrate the confines of the jail.
After being dumped by his girlfriend, twentysomething scientist Eddie decides to uproot himself from his home state of Wisconsin and takes a job in New York City. In the Big Apple, Eddie's new roommate Ray encourages him to start dating again. Eddie has little luck with women until he meets Lee, a bohemian musician.
Willie Bauche, a Hollywood producer, becomes so obsessed with turning his wife, Ann Garantier, into the sexiest star in Hollywood that he neglects her real needs. Feeling lonely and tired of Tinseltown, Ann returns to her native France and finds herself attracted to Marco Ranieri, a handsome and very attentive pilot. When Willie hears about the budding affair, he flies into a rage and hires assassins to kill his rival.
