Michael, a San Diego policeman, travels to Los Angeles for Thanksgiving with his fiancée, Ashley (played by Jennia Fredrique), to meet her dysfunctional family and announce their engagement. While there Michael is subjected to ridicule by his fiancée's father and brother for being a cop. Michael learns that his soon to be new father in law was a member of the Black Panther Party and went to prison for attempted murder of a police officer but maintains it was self defense so he hates cops.
The film follows Viva in different bathtubs as she receives a succession of visitors from Factory regulars. Throughout the film, Viva alternately shares the tub with and departs from different companions, creating a recurring cycle of pairings and separations. The visitors include both men and women of different racial backgrounds, including Abigail Rosen, Brigid Polk, Taylor Mead, and Alexis de la Falaise.
Christmas film, Comedy, family film, romantic comedy
Erica, a congressional assistant in Washington, DC for Congresswoman Bradford, is tasked with investigating a US Air Force base in Guam. As she is in charge of the Base Realignment and Closure Commission, Bradford's ultimate goal is to find a reason to justify its closure. So Erica is instructed to drop her Christmas plans to investigate in person.
In a suburban neighborhood, Paul Gold lies in his bedroom in a coma caused by a traumatic car accident. He is cared for by his mother, Esther, who in tending him closely has distanced herself from her husband Howard and young daughter Julie. Trying to elicit her mother's attention, Julie enters Esther in a local radio contest, hoping to win a brand-new car.
Bruce Gaynor advises David Morgan while Nancy advises Kathy on what to do on their third and most intimate date. Although they have dated twice, they have not revealed their biggest secrets. This third date challenges their relationship as the truths surface.
Eccentric multimillionaire Ezra Ounce, whose main purpose in life is raising American morals through a nationwide campaign, wants to be assured that his fortune will be inherited by upstanding relatives. He visits his cousin Matilda Hemingway in New York City, in Horace's view the center of immorality in America. What Ounce finds most offensive are musical comedy shows and the people who put them on, and it just so happens that Matilda's daughter Barbara is a dancer and singer in love with a struggling singer and songwriter, her 13th cousin, Jimmy Higgens.
Deena and Kim each bring home a guy one night. Realizing they have no condoms, they go looking around in their house where Kim ultimately finds the last one, but Deena takes it and Kim has unprotected sex. One year later, Kim is a single mother.
The film is shot one evening, mostly in a man's apartment (Cuba Gooding, Jr.) on the Valentine's Day he intends to propose to his girlfriend. Before he can pop the question, he arrives home to discover she has mostly moved out. Then, several childhood friends and later several women arrive for a planned Valentine's party, all of which give their takes on relationships, love and interacting.
Karchy Jonas is a 17-year-old high-school student and immigrant from Hungary trying to find his way in the world. He meets radio personality Billy Magic, who takes him under his wing. However, unbeknownst to Karchy, authorities are after Billy for accepting payola from record companies to give their songs air time.
Seventeen-year-old Caroline Wexler and her father move from a large city to a small town where an industrial fire burns endlessly and many of the students in her new high school seem to be permanently stoned. One of Caroline's classmates, Thurston Goldberg, quickly falls for her after they first meet at a party. Caroline is attracted to her high school English teacher Mr.
In 1942 Britain is desperately holding onto Malta. Invasion seems imminent; the Italians and Germans are regularly bombing the airfields and towns. Flight Lieutenant Peter Ross, an archaeologist in civilian life, is on his way to an RAF posting in Egypt, but is stranded when the Lockheed Hudson on which he was a passenger is bombed while attempting to refuel in Malta.
Christine Radcliffe runs in the rain up the stairs of a large symphony hall in which a concert is already underway with a performance of Haydn's cello concerto in D. Her eyes fill with tears as she recognizes the cellist on stage: Karel Novak who spent the war trapped in neutral Sweden. After his performance, Novak is mobbed by well-wishers.
Gus Kubicek (played by Guttenberg) is a depressed and overweight cartoonist who recently won a battle against Hodgkin's disease. His caring sister Lizzie Potts (Long), a nosy romance novelist, responds to his sadness by trying to set him up with a suitable woman. Yet to do so she must make him seem more dynamic and attractive.
In an English cottage, four young people from London move in together, seeking to challenge social conventions and their own tolerances by engaging in scheduled partner-swapping. The durability of their new living arrangements is tested by the arrival of an outsider who fails to get in tune with the foursome's radical spirit.
One year after the previous film, Callie and Joseph are still on the farm. There he proposes, and she accepts. That evening, everyone celebrates the engagement, and his chauffeur, Leo, insists that the city misses Joseph, which he finds hard to believe.
Three women in their early twenties, Margo, Kelly, and Cece, are roommates living in Los Angeles working menial jobs by day, and by night they enjoy the vibrant and decadent nightlife of the city. Margo has a boring job in telemarketing, Cece gets fired from her job at a department store, while Kelly works in a pet store and is very good at selling pets, mainly thanks to her looks. It is Friday night and the women are getting ready for a night out on the town.
The film starts off in the year 1827 with Beethoven dying in his bed during a thunderstorm and his copyist Anna Holtz arrived on time to see him and tell she finally heard his fugue before he passes. The story then shifts back to 1824 as Beethoven is finishing his Ninth Symphony. He is plagued by deafness, loneliness, and personal trauma.
Aspiring writer Lester Grimm starts going out with Ramona Ray after being introduced by Lester's friend Vince and Vince's fiancée Lucretia. They immediately hit it off, but Ramona mentions on their first date that one of her ex-boyfriends is famous writer Dashiell Frank. Lester becomes slightly jealous.
A U.S. Navy Lockheed TV-2 jet piloted by Commander Dale Heath, with an enlisted man, McVey, as a rear passenger, runs into trouble soon after takeoff. Heath's radio and navigation system become disabled, leaving him unable to correctly determine the jet's altitude.
In 1963, liberal-minded and reckless Lydia Callahan is raising her 14-year-old son, Sam. Lydia's father Caspar, a prominent local businessman, is running for governor of North Carolina, and does not want Lydia and Sam in his way, so the two are banished from North Carolina. They travel across the country and settle in Wyoming, where Lydia only wants to have a good time and refuses to allow Sam to call her "mom." Sam soon finds out that he is one of only two students in Gro Vont High School who read.
Forty years after the events in the film Hawaii, sea captain Whip Hoxworth returns to Oahu with the Corinthian’s hold full of Chinese laborers. Determined to leave the helm and run the family shipping fleet from shore, he instead learns that his grandfather (Captain Rafer Hoxworth) has died and left his fortune to Hoxworth's cousin Malama and her stoic, reproachful husband, Micah Hale. Whip, considered the black sheep of his pious and conservative family, doesn’t even get the ship, just a barren Hanakai estate.
Drama, Mysterie, Noir, romance film, thriller film
In England, on the night of April 4, 1851, Walter Hartright is walking to Limmeridge House when he encounters a woman in white who is lost. She is familiar with the Fairlies, for whom Walter is the new drawing master. The conversation ends abruptly when she is frightened by the approach of a carriage and vanishes.
Set in 1930s Cork, nineteen-year-old Elizabeth has a brief fling with a young actor and dancer and becomes pregnant. With no chance of finding the father, and trying to avoid entering the Magdalene Laundries, she chooses to marry an older man who she first meets on her wedding day and moves to her new life in West Cork. The series follows Elizabeth through this marriage and her new life on a farm in West Cork.
Robert "Bob" Davis is a well-known American dancer with a weakness for betting on the horses. After he loses his money gambling in Buenos Aires, he goes looking for a job with Eduardo Acuña, the wealthy owner of a nightclub. Acuña, however, does not wish to see him.
