Elizabeth "Curly Top" Blair and her much-older sister Mary, whose late parents were stage performers, now live at Lakeside Orphanage for Girls with their pets, Spunky the Pony and Betsy the Duck. Being too old to be adopted, Mary cooks and cleans for her keep. The orphanage is run by the overly-strict superintendent Mrs.
Shortly after World War II, Moscow-based American newspaper reporter Philip Sutherland marries Russian ballerina Marya Lamarkina of the Bolshoi Ballet. They plan to settle in San Francisco eventually, though they realize that an exit visa for Marya will be difficult to obtain. The Sutherlands honeymoon in Tallinn, where they encounter Marya's friend Svetlana who is there with her English husband, Christopher Wellington St.
Unable to find work in London at the height of World War I, American chorus girl Myra Deauville resorts to prostitution to support herself. She sometimes meets her clients on Waterloo Bridge, the primary entry point into the city for soldiers on military leave. During an air raid, she meets fellow American Roy Cronin, a soldier serving with the Canadian Expeditionary Force.
Monica teaches, Steve's a photographer. They've dated more than two years. They're arguing, and she leaves for her apartment, only to return in a few minutes to say they should stop seeing each other.
30-something Mitali aka Meethi has schizophrenia and is taken care of by her older, divorced sister Anjali aka Anu, who is a professor, and their ageing mother. Although she was never married in real life, Meethi has created her own alternate reality in her mind in which she married her ex-fiancé Joydeep and has five children. While Anu has dedicated her life to taking care of Meethi and her mother, even putting her own relationship with a fellow professor on hold, in Meethi's imaginary world both the older women are holding her in the house and away from her husband and children against her will.
Wealthy restaurateur Harvey Howard, a self-made man, widower, and owner of Harvey Howard Smokehouses, decides to go back to college at the age of 51 and earn a bachelor's degree. He faces opposition from his snobbish grown children Harvey Jr. and Laura, as well as a generation gap between himself and his much-younger fellow students.
Lieutenant Jordan, U.S. Coast Guard, responds to a number of pleas for help from civilian pleasure boat sailors around Southern California's Balboa Island. This type of event is typical of what the Coast Guard deals with on a regular basis, and it is one of the reasons why Jordan has requested to transfer to a new station.
After nineteen years of marriage, workaholic Dan Edwards's wife Valerie is frustrated. Rather than tending to her needs at home, Dan spends most of his time at an ad agency he runs with old friend, Ernie Brewer, a laid-back bachelor and Dan's second-in-command. Once a real swinger, Dan has become a bore to his whole family.
Grant Austen, the head of Austen Plastics, yearns for retirement. So when Schofield Industries, his largest customer, threatens to take its business elsewhere, Austen hires a consulting firm, which finds an interested potential buyer, the notorious businessman Cash McCall. Cash meets with Austen and his daughter Lory, who owns part of the company.
Heather Halloran, pursued by three men who want to marry her, is about to give birth. The events that led to her pregnancy are recalled. Her mother wants Heather to be a singing star but she works as a secretary for the rich Harlan Wycliff.
Linus becomes infatuated with his teacher, Miss Othmar, and purchases a large, heart-shaped box of chocolates as a token of affection. Sally misinterprets his actions, assuming the gift is for her, and begins preparing a valentine in return. Meanwhile, Lucy attends a "pawpet" show staged by Snoopy and narrated by Charlie Brown, which explores the meaning of true love.
A beautiful antique store owner, Alice Chapman (Alicia Witt), travels to her fiancé's hometown alone to meet her future in-laws for the first time at their Christmas gathering. Her fiancé, successful realtor Will Mitchum (Scott Gibson), tells her he will join them after closing an important business deal. Upon her arrival at the airport, she discovers that her luggage is lost.
Rich kid and party animal Gardner Pruitt III, known as "Ding" to his friends, is on the prowl for a new conquest in the form of teenager Sandy Palmer. In the meantime, Ding's influential grandfather, B.S. Cronin wants to curtail the romance and shut down a popular local college teen hangout.
Daydreamer Travis Rogers is on the verge of marriage to Stephanie Lawrence, whom he has known his entire life, but is starting to have doubts after his coworkers discourage him and his future father-in-law tries to force him into the manure business. A late-night talk with Stephi allays his fears somewhat, but they remain and he doubles down on his inexplicable, to his family and friends, need to buy an imitation Lamborghini sports car. Travis goes to Dallas to buy the car and meets a seductive saleswoman named Jonni Tigersmith.
thumb|right|Robert Tudawali appeared as Marbuck in Jedda Jedda is an Aboriginal girl born on a cattle station in the Northern Territory of Australia. After her mother dies giving birth to her, the child is brought to Sarah McMann, the wife of the station boss. Sarah has recently lost her own newborn to illness.
Bobby Corelli (Facinelli), a New York pickpocket, enjoys the free lifestyle he has until one day he is confronted by a former one-night stand, Lucy Atwood (Alexander), who informs him she is three months pregnant with his child. She gives him a chance to leave his daily life and take responsibility for his child. Bobby and Lucy work together to solve their problems while evading the cop (Michael Madsen) whose badge was nicked by Bobby.
At an art show of his colleague Jusef Davis in Washington, D.C., struggling Black painter Isaiah Maxwell meets gallery owner Chenai Hungwe, who invites him to produce a piece for a future show. He also meets Stevie Richmond, with whom he instantly connects. Their moment passes, but soon after Isaiah's longtime friend Nick and Nick's girlfriend Mecca introduce them formerly, as the two women are friends from Howard University.
Cassie (Rosanna Arquette) who seeks love and escape from her mundane ordinary life meets a traveling Shakespeare troupe offering a community acting workshop.
Estranged for more than a decade, a divorced couple Idris (Riley) and Patricia (Bennett) revisit their past whilst stuck together in a Cornish hotel owned by Idris’ current girlfriend Louise (Abela).
A wealthy Washington, D.C., socialite, Sally Adams (Ethel Merman), has political connections and is appointed U.S. ambassador to the tiny country of Lichtenburg, even though nothing in her background qualifies her for the job. A young journalist, Kenneth Gibson (Donald O'Connor), persuades her to let him tag along as her press attaché.
Robert and Cathy Wilson are a timid married couple in 1940 London. He is a bookkeeper, she a bored housewife. However, their tedious lives are changed by the war.
Nick Hart (Keith Carradine) is an expatriate American artist living in Paris among some of the noted artists and writers of the time, including Ernest Hemingway (Kevin J. O'Connor), Gertrude Stein (Elsa Raven), and Alice B. Toklas (Ali Giron).
Adventure, Drama, romance film, Romantic drama, silent film
thumb|thumbtime=5|The Son of the Sheik (1926) In his final film performance before his death in 1926, Rudolph Valentino tackles two roles, as a father and his son. Ahmed, the son of an Arab sheik and a kidnapped English gentlewoman, loves local dancing girl Yasmin. When he slips out of his father's heavily guarded compound to woo her, he is kidnapped and held for ransom by a group of bandits led by Yasmin's father and Ghabah, the Moor to whom she is betrothed.
Rosa Moline is the dissatisfied, restless wife of Lewis, a small-town Wisconsin doctor. She is easily bored, uninterested in her husband's career or in anything to do with her current circumstances. She has long desired a glamorous life, in a world where she can have expensive things and meet truly interesting people.