Mock documentary about Seinfeld writer Larry David featuring contributions from his friends and colleagues. Larry makes a return to stand-up comedy and prepares to film a television special for HBO. This is the original special that gave birth to the long-running award-winning HBO series.
A poor North Korean fisherman finds himself an accidental defector, and is groomed to be a spy by an ambitious South Korean military officer.
After young playwright, David Shayne obtains funding for his play from gangster Nick Valenti, Nick's girlfriend Olive miraculously lands the role of a psychiatrist—but not only is she a bimbo who could never pass for a psychiatrist—she's a dreadful actress. David puts up with the leading man who is a compulsive eater, the grand dame who wants her part jazzed up, and Olive's interfering hitman/bodyguard—but, eventually he must decide whether art or life is more important.
When Jack and Sally announce that they're splitting up, this comes as a shock to their best friends Gabe and Judy. Maybe mostly because they also are drifting apart and are now being made aware of it. So while Jack and Sally try to go on and meet new people, the marriage of Gabe and Judy gets more and more strained, and they begin to find themselves being attracted to other people.
After serving time for murder, Josh Hutton returns to his home town where he meets Audry Hugo. No one can remember exactly what Josh did...
Vi er i swingin´ New York i 1940. CW Briggs er forsikringsdetektiv og knaldhamrende dygtig til det...Nå, ja, det er i hvert fald hvad han igen og igen fortæller forsikringsselskabets nyudnævnte effektivisering-ekspert, Betty Ann ”Fitz” Fitzgerald. Briggs brøster sig af til enhver tid at være i stand til at afsløre forsikringssvindel og –svindlere pga. sin evne til at trænge ind i svindlerens hjerne. Men nu – takket være den jadegrønne skorpions hypnotiske kraft – trænger svindlerens hjerne i stedet ind i Briggs...
With nutritionally-depleted foods, chemical additives and our tendency to rely upon pharmaceutical drugs to treat what's wrong with our malnourished bodies, it's no wonder that modern society is getting sicker. Food Matters sets about uncovering the trillion dollar worldwide sickness industry and gives people some scientifically verifiable solutions for curing disease naturally.
I en lille engelsk by får to veninder en ide. Hvert år udgiver den lokale kvindeforening en kalender for at rejse penge til velgørenhed. Det er ikke nogen succes - men hvad nu, hvis de sædvanlige blomster- og landskabsmotiver blev peppet op med nøgne kvinder? Foreningens medlemmer er ikke længere helt unge. Alligevel siger de ja til at smide tøjet, for hvad gør man ikke i en god sags tjeneste?
Woody Allen spiller den små-fallerede filminstruktør Val Waxman, der er desperat efter at skabe sig et comeback. Men det er ikke nemt når det er ekskonen der er chefen.... Val accepterer imidlertid tilbuddet, men umiddelbart før optagelserne bliver han blind - naturligvis forårsaget af den klassiske Woody Allen-neorotiske angst og bekymring.... Spørgsmålet er nu hvordan han kan instruere, når han intet kan se....
The details of undercover police officers are deleted from a police database and a senior officer is left struggling to know who are the undercover officers and who are the criminals.
Langt ude på landet i Californien driver den græske immigrant Nick Papadakis (John Colicos) en lille café sammen med sin smukke og yngre kone Cora (Jessica Lange). Cora er træt af sine ægtemand og ville ønske, at hun kunne drive stedet alene. Da den charmerende laps Frank Chambers (Jack Nicholson) dukker op, starter de to en affære og lægger en plan for fremtiden - en fremtid uden Nick. Historien er filmet flere gange, dels i Hollywood, dels i andre lande.
A nutty inventor, his frustrated wife, a philosopher cousin, his much younger fiancée, a randy doctor, and a free-thinking nurse spend a summer weekend in and around a stunning - and possibly magical - country house.
A loser of a crook and his wife strike it rich when a botched bank job's cover business becomes a spectacular success.
Fire sofistikerede newyorkere er ude at spise. En anekdote fremprovokerer en diskussion mellem forfatterne Max og Sy om det menneskelige dramas dobbelte natur, symboliseret ved teatrets komedie- og tragediemasker. Det ender med, at de fortæller hver sin historie - den ene komisk, den anden mere dramatisk - begge centreret omkring en gådefuld kvinde ved navn Melinda.
Tre kortfilm, som udspiller sig i New York. 'Life lessons' handler om en kunstner, som er besat af sin assistent. 'Life without Zoe' om en pige, der bor på hotel. Og 'Oedipus Wrecks' om en 50-årig, der ikke kan gøre sig fri af sin mor.
As the first snow falls in Seoul, two old friends reunite; one is a successful college professor, and the other, a struggling filmmaker recently returned from the United States. After their reminiscences, they finally decide to go in search of the young woman each had romanced years earlier.
John Moss er pissesej drabsbetjent i New York, der jagter seriemorderen The Party Crasher. Nick Lang er en berømt skuespiller fra filmserien 'Smoking Gunn'. Nick vil lære, hvordan man bliver lige så rå som John. John vil bare af med Nick og fange morderen. De to dele går op i en højere enhed, men bestemt ikke fordi de bryder sig særlig godt om hinanden.
When Katie meets Paco, they fall in love. From this an extraordinary child is born; Ricky, who quickly develops into something wonderful and not so normal.
Four stories about football.
Da fisken Pi's forældre omkommer i et fiskenet forlader han sit hjemlige farvand ud for Boston. Han rejser den lange vej ud til det store hav, for at bo hos sin skøre tante Pearl. Her møder Pi sin drømmefisk - havets mest populære pige Cordelia - og han falder straks for hende. Men den store onde tigerhaj, Troy, er også lun på Cordelia og spænder finne for den spirende romance mellem Pi og Cordelia. For at redde Pi fra at blive hajføde, lader Cordelia sig forlove med den frygtindgydende Troy, og nu må Pi samle alt sit mod og kæmpe for både sit liv og sin kærlighed.