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Forty-two year old Isaac Davis has a romanticized view of his hometown, New York City, most specifically Manhattan, as channeled through the lead character in the first book he is writing, despite his own Manhattan-based life being more of a tragicomedy. He has just quit his job as a hack writer for … a bad television comedy, he, beyond the ten second rush of endorphins during the actual act of quitting, now regretting the decision, especially as he isn't sure he can live off his book writing career. He is paying two alimonies, his second ex-wife, Jill Davis, a lesbian, who is writing her own tell-all book of their acrimonious split. The one somewhat positive aspect of his life is that he is dating a young woman named Tracy, although she is only seventeen and still in high school. Largely because of their differences a big part of which is due to their ages, he does not see a long term future with her. His life has the potential to be even more tragicomical when he meets journalist Mary Wilkie, the mistress of his best friend, college professor Yale Pollack. Although Isaac's first impression of Mary is that she is a pretentious intellectual, he falls for her. They do become friends with the potential of becoming more than just friends as she knows that being the "other woman" in Yale's life is not a long term role that she wants. An Isaac/Mary coupling may complicate matters even more with Yale being mutually in their lives. Regardless, Isaac may be able to rationalize events a… (Read More)
Subgenre: | comedy of manners |
Themes: | writingbreak updatingdivorceextramarital affairlesbianismadulterymarriage |
Mood: | satire |
Locations: | museumurban settingapartmentrestaurantnew york city |
Characters: | older man younger woman relationshipsex with teenagerlesbian motherex husband ex wife relationshiplove trianglewriterstudentteacherteenage girlboyhusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Period: | 1970s |
Story: | television writersitting on a benchtelevision industrywalking a dogreference to noel cowardreference to fellinireference to federico fellinireference to ingmar bergmanbuying a cardivorced fathernoisy neighborimagerydeliracquetballplanetarium …dachshundtelephone boxcaught in the rainopening narrationpizzeriatv show in filmfireworkcity parkclothing storenew york skylinelolitanight timesex with a minorfundraiserdivorced parentstv studioporschequitting a job17 year oldcentral park manhattan new york cityharmonicalate nightnovelage differencewritten by starhorse and carriagemay december romancebenchlesbian couplebookstorethunderstormcheating husbandgay parenttape recordertypewriterpremarital sexdirected by starconvertibleskeletonwritten and directed by cast memberprologueno opening creditsman with glassesdinerwomanmanhattan new york citytelevisioncollegecafeplace name in titlerunningbookvoice over narrationtelephone calltitle spoken by charactercigarette smokingone word titledog (See All) |
Alvy Singer, a forty year old twice divorced, neurotic, intellectual Jewish New York stand-up comic, reflects on the demise of his latest relationship, to Annie Hall, an insecure, flighty, Midwestern WASP aspiring nightclub singer. Unlike his previous relationships, Alvy believed he may have worked …out all the issues in his life through fifteen years of therapy to make this relationship with Annie last, among those issues being not wanting to date any woman that would want to date him, and thus subconsciously pushing those women away. Alvy not only reviews the many ups and many downs of their relationship, but also reviews the many facets of his makeup that led to him starting to date Annie. Those facets include growing up next to Coney Island in Brooklyn, being attracted to the opposite sex for as long as he can remember, and enduring years of Jewish guilt with his constantly arguing parents. (Read More)
Subgenre: | comedy of manners |
Themes: | break updatingdivorcemarriage |
Mood: | satire |
Locations: | urban settingnew york city |
Characters: | writer |
Period: | 1970s |
Story: | television industryracquetballtelephone boxbookstorepremarital sexdirected by starconvertiblewritten and directed by cast memberman with glassesdinerwomancafevoice over narrationtitle spoken by charactercigarette smoking |
Soon after moving in, Beth, a brainy, beautiful writer damaged from a past relationship encounters Adam, the handsome, but odd, fellow in the downstairs apartment whose awkwardness is perplexing. Beth and Adam's ultimate connection leads to a tricky relationship that exemplifies something universal: … truly reaching another person means bravely stretching into uncomfortable territory and the resulting shake-up can be liberating. (Read More)
Themes: | extramarital affairadultery |
Locations: | apartmentrestaurantnew york city |
Characters: | lesbian motherwriterstudentteacherhusband wife relationship |
Story: | planetariumcentral park manhattan new york citybenchlesbian couplegay parentmanhattan new york citycafebookvoice over narrationtelephone calltitle spoken by characterone word title |
When brought together at a family event, two exes find themselves oddly attracted to each other after ten years of divorce. Although the couple think that this affair will stay in a different state, it brings itself back to their own city and disrupts their personal lives. While the couple still mai …ntain other romances, they cannot help but to continue with their affair. (Read More)
Themes: | break updatingdivorceadulterymarriage |
Locations: | new york city |
Characters: | older man younger woman relationshipex husband ex wife relationshiplove trianglehusband wife relationship |
Story: | divorced parentsage differencecheating husbandwomantitle spoken by character |
Tracy Flick is running unopposed for this year's high school student election. But school civics teacher Jim McAllister has a different plan. Partly to establish a more democratic election, and partly to satisfy some deep personal anger toward Tracy, Jim talks popular varsity football player Paul Me …tzler to run for president as well. Chaos ensues. (Read More)
Themes: | divorceextramarital affairlesbianismadulterymarriage |
Mood: | satire |
Locations: | new york city |
Characters: | love trianglestudentteacherteenage girlhusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | sex with a minormanhattan new york cityrunningvoice over narrationtitle spoken by characterone word title |
Single father Dan Burns dedicates his life to his children, but one day he meets Marie at a bookstore. They get to know each other, but then Dan finds out that Marie is actually dating his brother, Mitch.
Themes: | writingbreak updating |
Locations: | restaurantnew york city |
Characters: | love trianglewriterboyhusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | bookstoreprologuewomancafebooktelephone call |
In 1986, In Brooklyn, New York, the dysfunctional family of pseudo intellectuals composed by the university professor Bernard and the prominent writer Joan split. Bernard is a selfish, cheap and jealous decadent writer that rationalizes every attitude in his family and life and does not accept "phil …istines" - people that do not read books or watch movies, while the unfaithful Joan is growing as a writer and has no problems with "philistines". Their sons, the teenager Walt and the boy Frank, feel the separation and take side: Walt stays with Bernard, and Frank with Joan, and both are affected with abnormal behaviors. Frank drinks booze and smears with sperm the books in the library and a locker in the dress room of his school. The messed-up and insecure Walt uses Roger Water's song "Hey You" in a festival as if it was of his own, and breaks up with his girlfriend Sophie. Meanwhile Joan has an affair with Frank's tennis teacher Ivan and Bernard with his student Lili. (Read More)
Themes: | break updatingdivorceextramarital affairadulterymarriage |
Locations: | museumrestaurantnew york city |
Characters: | older man younger woman relationshipwriterstudentteacherteenage girlboyhusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | typewriterno opening creditscafebooktelephone call |
L.A. soft-porn writer Carter Webb is frustrated enough, after his actress girlfriend dumps him, to need a serious break. He decides to spend it with his grandmother, who can't really take care of herself and her Detroit suburb house anyway. Helpful Carter soon overcomes mishaps to bond with the foxy … neighbor across the street and her daughters. Helping them actually helps him regain perspective and self-confidence. (Read More)
Themes: | break upextramarital affairadultery |
Locations: | restaurant |
Characters: | writerteenage girlhusband wife relationship |
Story: | porscheprologueman with glassesdinerwomancafetelephone callcigarette smokingdog |
Romantic comedy: Will Hayes, a 30-something Manhattan dad is in the midst of a divorce when his 10 year old daughter, Maya, starts to question him about his life before marriage. Maya wants to know absolutely everything about how her parents met and fell in love. Will's story begins in 1992, as a yo …ung, starry-eyed aspiring politician who moves to New York from Wisconsin in order to work on the Clinton campaign. For Maya, Will relives his past as a idealistic young man learning the ins and outs of big city politics, and recounts the history of his romantic relationships with three very different women. On the campaign, Will's best buddy is Russell McCormack. They not only have similar political aspirations, they share the same type of girl problems, too. Will hopelessly attempts a "PG" version of his story for his daughter ad changes the names so Maya has to guess who he finally married. Is her mother Will's college sweetheart, the dependable girl next-door Emily? Is she his longtime best friend and confidante, the apolitical April? Or is she the free-spirited but ambitious journalist? As Maya puts together the pieces of her dad's romantic puzzle, she begins to understand that love is not so simple or easy. And as Will tells her his tale, Maya helps him to understand that it's definitely never too late to go back...and maybe even possible to find a happy ending. (Read More)
Themes: | datingdivorceextramarital affairadulterymarriage |
Locations: | restaurantnew york city |
Characters: | older man younger woman relationshipwriterboyhusband wife relationship |
Story: | central park manhattan new york citybookstorewomanmanhattan new york citycollegecafebookvoice over narrationtelephone calltitle spoken by charactercigarette smokingdog |
Harry Block is a well-regarded novelist whose tendency to thinly-veil his own experiences in his work, as well as his un-apologetic attitude and his proclivity for pills and whores, has left him with three ex-wives that hate him. As he is about to be honored for his writing by the college that expel …led him, he faces writer's block and the impending marriage of his latest flame to a writer friend. As scenes from his stories and novels pass and interact with him, Harry faces the people whose lives he has affected - wives, lovers, his son, his sister. (Read More)
Themes: | writingdivorceadulterymarriage |
Locations: | new york city |
Characters: | writer |
Story: | central park manhattan new york citydirected by starwritten and directed by cast memberman with glassesmanhattan new york citycollegevoice over narrationtelephone call |
The needy Gigi Haim is a young woman seeking her prince charming somewhere amongst her unsuccessful dates. After dating estate agent Conor Barry, Gigi anxiously expects to receive a phone call from him. However Conor never calls her. Gigi decides to go to the bar where he frequents to see him, but s …he meets his friend Alex who works there. They become friends and Alex helps Gigi to interpret the subtle signs given out by her dates. (Read More)
Themes: | break updatingdivorceextramarital affairmarriage |
Locations: | apartmentrestaurant |
Characters: | love trianglehusband wife relationship |
Story: | cheating husbandwomanvoice over narrationtelephone callcigarette smoking |
Harry Sanborn is an aged music industry exec with a fondness for younger women like Marin, his latest trophy girlfriend. Things get a little awkward when Harry suffers a heart attack at the home of Marin's mother Erica. Left in the care of Erica and his doctor, a love triangle starts to take shape.
Themes: | datingdivorcemarriage |
Locations: | restaurantnew york city |
Characters: | older man younger woman relationshiplove trianglewriterteacherhusband wife relationship |
Story: | age differencemay december romancemanhattan new york citycafevoice over narrationtelephone callcigarette smoking |
Aurora and Emma are mother and daughter who march to different drummers. Beginning with Emma's marriage, Aurora shows how difficult and loving she can be. The movie covers several years of their lives as each finds different reasons to go on living and find joy. Aurora's interludes with Garrett Bree …dlove, retired astronaut and next door neighbor are quite striking. In the end, different people show their love in very different ways. (Read More)
Themes: | break upextramarital affairadulterymarriage |
Locations: | restaurantnew york city |
Characters: | teacherhusband wife relationship |
Period: | 1970s |
Story: | premarital sexconvertibleprologuewomanmanhattan new york citycollege |
Katherine Ann Watson has accepted a position teaching art history at the prestigious Wellesley College. Watson is a very modern woman, particularly for the 1950s, and has a passion not only for art but for her students. For the most part, the students all seem to be biding their time, waiting to fin …d the right man to marry. The students are all very bright and Watson feels they are not reaching their potential. Altough a strong bond is formed between teacher and student, Watson's views are incompatible with the dominant culture of the college. (Read More)
Themes: | datingdivorceextramarital affairadulterymarriage |
Locations: | restaurantnew york city |
Characters: | writerstudentteacherteenage girl |
Story: | womanmanhattan new york citycollegecafebookvoice over narrationtelephone callcigarette smoking |
In New York, the simple and naive just-graduated in journalism Andrea Sachs is hired to work as the second assistant of the powerful and sophisticated Miranda Priestly, the ruthless and merciless executive of the Runway fashion magazine. Andrea dreams to become a journalist and faces the opportunity … as a temporary professional challenge. The first assistant Emily advises Andrea about the behavior and preferences of their cruel boss, and the stylist Nigel helps Andrea to dress more adequately for the environment. Andrea changes her attitude and behavior, affecting her private life and the relationship with her boyfriend Nate, her family and friends. In the end, Andrea learns that life is made of choices. (Read More)
Themes: | break updivorceadultery |
Mood: | satire |
Locations: | museumapartmentrestaurantnew york city |
Characters: | ex husband ex wife relationshipwriterhusband wife relationship |
Story: | central park manhattan new york cityman with glasseswomanmanhattan new york citycafebooktelephone calldog |
Humbert Humbert, a British professor coming to the US to teach, rents a room in Charlotte Haze's house, but only after he sees her 14-year-old daughter, Dolores (Lolita), to whom he is immediately attracted. Though he hates the mother, he marries her as this is the only way to be close to the girl, …who will prove to be too mature for her age. They start a journey together, trying to hide they're not just (step)father and daughter, throughout the country, being followed by someone whom Humbert first suspects to be from the police. The profound jealousy, and maybe some guilt from the forbidden love, seem slowly to drive the man emotionally labile. (Read More)
Themes: | writingdatingmarriage |
Characters: | older man younger woman relationshipsex with teenagerwriterteacherteenage girlhusband wife relationship |
Story: | lolitasex with a minorage differencemay december romancecollegevoice over narrationtelephone callcigarette smokingdog |
Hunky NY lawyer Jeff Daly finally got engaged to fickle Sarah Huttinger, who presents him to her Pasadena family, who all soon take to him, for her sister's wedding to Scott. But Jeff's clever counting makes Sarah realize her dad Earl isn't her biological father. Once movie clues from family indicat …e as suspect successful author Beau Burroughs, she insists on meeting him. Only like her mother and grandmother, she has a one night-stand with Beau, which may well cost her Jeff. (Read More)
Themes: | extramarital affairadulterymarriage |
Locations: | restaurantnew york city |
Characters: | older man younger woman relationshiplove trianglewriter |
Story: | premarital sexprologuedinercafebooktelephone callcigarette smokingdog |
Holly Golightly is a flighty Manhattan party girl, who expects "money for the powder room as well as for cab fare" for her companionship. She has even gotten a lucrative once weekly job to visit notorious convict Sally Tomato in Sing Sing, she needing to report back to Sally's lawyer the weather rep …ort that Sally tells her as proof of her visits with him in return for payment. Her aspirations for glamor and wealth are epitomized by the comfort she feels at Tiffany's, the famous high end jewelry retailer where she believes nothing can ever go wrong. Her resolve for this wealth is strengthened, if not changed slightly in focus, upon news from home. Into Holly's walk-up apartment building and thus her life is Paul Varjak, a writer who Holly states reminds her of her brother Fred, who she has not seen in years and who is currently enlisted in the army. The two quickly become friends in their want for something outside of their current lot. Paul's situation is closer to Holly's than he would like to admit. Having not had anything published in over five years, he is a kept man by his wealthy married "decorator", Emily Eustace Failenson - who he refers to as 2E - which allows him not to write, which he no longer truly does. Eventually, Paul falls for Holly, and wants to take care of her, instead of being taken care of as is his current situation. Although Holly also seems to be falling for him, the question becomes whether Paul can fulfill Holly's life aspirations, and if not what n… (Read More)
Subgenre: | comedy of manners |
Themes: | writingbreak upextramarital affair |
Mood: | satire |
Locations: | urban settingapartmentnew york city |
Characters: | love trianglewriter |
Story: | telephone boxcentral park manhattan new york citytypewriterwomanmanhattan new york citybookcigarette smoking |
Grady Tripp is a professor/writer living in Pittsburgh who is struggling with writer's block. Whilst doing this, he also manages to get the chancellor pregnant. In the meantime, he and a college student, James Leer are trying to find a rare jacket once owned by Marilyn Monroe, and a college girl, Ha …nnah Green boarding with Grady has a bit of a crush on him. (Read More)
Themes: | writingdivorceextramarital affairadulterymarriage |
Characters: | writerstudenthusband wife relationship |
Story: | typewriterman with glassescollegevoice over narrationcigarette smokingdog |
The Human Stain is the story of Coleman Silk (Hopkins), a classics professor with a terrible secret that is about to shatter his life in a small New England town. When his affair with a young troubled janitor (Kidman) is uncovered, the secret Silk had harbored for over fifty years from his wife, his … children and colleague, writer Nathan Zuckerman, fast explodes in a conflagration of devastating consequences. It is Zuckerman who stumbles upon Silk's secret and sets out to reconstruct the unknown biography of this eminent, upright man, esteemed as an educator for nearly all his life, and to understand how this ingeniously contrived life came unraveled. (Read More)
Themes: | divorceextramarital affair |
Locations: | restaurant |
Characters: | older man younger woman relationshipex husband ex wife relationshiplove trianglewriterhusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | quitting a jobage differencemay december romanceman with glassescollegecafevoice over narrationtitle spoken by charactercigarette smoking |
Anna is a young widow who is finally getting on with her life after the death of her husband, Sean. Now engaged to be married, Anna meets a ten-year-old boy who tells her he is Sean reincarnated. Though his story is both unsettling and absurd, Anna can't get the boy out of her mind. And much to the …concern of her fiance, her increased contact with him leads her to question the choices she has made in her life. (Read More)
Themes: | extramarital affairadulterymarriage |
Locations: | restaurantnew york city |
Characters: | love trianglestudentteacherboyhusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | central park manhattan new york citymanhattan new york citycaferunningtelephone callcigarette smokingone word title |
Eleven vignettes, all homages to New York City life, are presented. I. Ben, a pickpocket, is attracted to Molly on first sight, and gets into an interesting "pissing match" with Molly's married lover, NYU professor Garry. II. Mansuhkhbai, an orthodox Jain diamond wholesaler, and Rifka, an orthodox J …ewish diamond retailer who is getting married tomorrow, learn that they have more in common than just diamonds. III. David, a musician and music editor for a video being directed by Abarra, is having problems meeting Abarra's demands while he slowly falls for Abarra's assistant, Camille, who he's never met but has only talked to on the telephone solely about work. IV. A young man believes he's made a powerful connection to a stranger, a young woman, in the simple act of lighting her cigarette, and proceeds to convince her of the same and as such that there is a future for them from that point on, and not at some unspecified time down the road. V. A high school senior, who has been dumped by his girlfriend just before senior prom, is given a gift by his local pharmacist, Mr. Riccoli, the senior not understanding the full implication of the gift until the full process of prom night is over. VI. Each on their way to their first official date together after what started out solely as a one night stand, Gus and Lydia each contemplate not keeping the date. VII. Isabelle, a retired opera diva, has returned to a hotel where she's stayed many times and where she has strong memories of encou… (Read More)
Themes: | datingmarriage |
Locations: | urban settingapartmentrestaurantnew york city |
Characters: | older man younger woman relationshipwriterteacherhusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | 17 year oldcentral park manhattan new york citybenchdirected by starwomanmanhattan new york citycafeplace name in titlebookvoice over narrationtelephone callcigarette smokingdog |
In the 1970s, terrorist violence is the stuff of networks' nightly news programming and the corporate structure of the UBS Television Network is changing. Meanwhile, Howard Beale, the aging UBS news anchor, has lost his once strong ratings share and so the network fires him. Beale reacts in an unexp …ected way. We then see how this affects the fortunes of Beale, his coworkers (Max Schumacher and Diana Christensen), and the network. (Read More)
Themes: | break upextramarital affairadulterymarriage |
Mood: | satire |
Locations: | restaurantnew york city |
Characters: | husband wife relationship |
Period: | 1970s |
Story: | tv studiomay december romancethunderstormcheating husbandtelevisionvoice over narrationtitle spoken by characterone word title |
Frances Mayes is a San Francisco-based literature professor, literary reviewer and author, who is struggling in writing her latest book. Her outwardly perfect and stable life takes an unexpected turn when her husband files for divorce. He wants to marry the woman with whom he is having an affair. Fr …ances supported her husband financially as he was writing his own book, and he sues her for alimony despite her financial difficulties. And he wants to keep the house. Frances eventually accepts her best friend Patti's offer of a vacation, a gay tour of Tuscany which Patti and her lesbian partner Grace originally purchased for themselves before Patti found out that she is pregnant. The gift is a means to escape dealing with the divorce, from which Patti feels Frances may never recover emotionally without some intervention. Feeling that Patti's assessment may be correct in that she has too much emotional baggage ever to return to San Francisco, Frances, while in Tuscany, impulsively ditches the tour to purchase an aged villa, which ends up being a fixer-upper. Frances has many obstacles in eking out a productive and happy life in her new surroundings, that happy life which she hopes will eventually include rediscovering romantic love. In a discussion with sympathetic real estate agent Signor Martini, Frances outlines what emotionally she wants to accomplish with the villa, despite none of those items in a substantive material sense currently being in her life. In response, Martini t… (Read More)
Themes: | writingbreak updivorcemarriage |
Locations: | apartmentrestaurant |
Characters: | writerhusband wife relationship |
Story: | reference to federico fellinibookstorethunderstormgay parentconvertiblewomanbookvoice over narration |
Themes: | break updatingextramarital affairadulterymarriage |
Locations: | restaurant |
Characters: | teacherboyhusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | central park manhattan new york citybenchwomanmanhattan new york citycollegecafetelephone calltitle spoken by charactercigarette smokingdog |
In colorful, bustling modern-day Manhattan, Rafi Gardet, a beautiful 37-year-old photography producer reeling from a recent divorce, meets David Bloomberg, a handsome 23-year-old painter recently out of college. Rafi's therapist, Dr. Lisa Metzger, who is working to help Rafi overcome her fears of in …timacy, finds out that Rafi's new lover is--unfortunately for Lisa--her only son, David. Both David and Rafi must contend with their 14-year age gap, vastly different backgrounds and the demands of David's traditional mother. Despite their intense attraction, the charmed couple soon realizes that vastly different ages and backgrounds create much conflict. A Jewish hip-hop lover and closet painter who still lives with his grandparents, David has little in common with Rafi--a non-practicing Catholic from a wealthy, broken family who travels in the sophisticated, high-end world of fashion. (Read More)
Themes: | datingdivorcemarriage |
Locations: | restaurantnew york city |
Characters: | father son relationship |
Story: | central park manhattan new york cityage differencemay december romanceconvertiblewomanmanhattan new york citycollegecafebooktelephone callcigarette smokingdog |
Dan is a 51 year old executive who learns that his company is being restructured and he is being demoted. Carter, who is 26, replaces him. Dan who has two teenage daughters with another on the way, decides to suck it up and work for Carter. Dan and Carter's working relationship is tested when Carter … begins a relationship with Alex, who is Dan's daughter. (Read More)
Themes: | writingdatingdivorceextramarital affairadulterymarriage |
Locations: | restaurantnew york city |
Characters: | teenage girlhusband wife relationship |
Story: | buying a carporschemanhattan new york citycollegecafetelephone call |
At 16, Nick Twisp is wry about his teen funk: he lives in Oakland with his sex-addled mother; his father's child support is her meal ticket. While camping in Ukiah, Nick meets Sheeni: for him, it's love at first sight. Nick has to figure out how to get his father a job in Ukiah, then how to get sent … to live with his father, then how to get close to Sheeni, whose religious parents may want her sent away from temptation to a boarding school. There's also Sheeni's all-American boyfriend to contend with. Overwhelmed by the challenges, Nick's about to give up when he conjures an alter ego who whispers revolt into his ear. Nick is not altogether hapless, but can this end well? (Read More)
Themes: | extramarital affairadultery |
Locations: | restaurant |
Characters: | older man younger woman relationshipstudentteenage girlfather son relationship |
Story: | reference to federico felliniclothing storedivorced parentsconvertibleprologuecaferunningbookvoice over narrationtelephone callcigarette smokingdog |
Jerry Falk and David Dobel, who meet at a business meeting, become fast friends. Their commonality is that they are both fledgling New York based comedy writers, largely writing material for stand-ups, are Jewish (although David is an atheist), and are each of bundle of different neuroses. Their big … difference is that Jerry is twenty-one, while David is sixty, with forty more years worth of life experience, knowledge and neuroses. While Jerry writes full time - he also working on a novel - David has kept his day job as a public school teacher just in case. In their relationship, David becomes somewhat of Jerry's mentor, providing advice on Jerry's life issues, most which revolve around the fact that Jerry is a product of inertia, he having trouble leaving anyone. That's why Jerry's still with the one and only manager he's ever had, Harvey Wexler. Jerry not only being Harvey's only client (which is a testament to his effectiveness in the job), Harvey also has a 25% take as stipulated in their contract, which he wants to extend for another seven years. That's why Jerry is still in therapy with a psychiatrist who has done him no good, and who advised Jerry to stay in therapy with him as opposed to taking a job in Los Angeles. But that not being able to leave largely applies to his love life. Jerry already has one divorce, his wife who left him. He is having problems with his current girlfriend Amanda, who he believes is the love of his life. He fell in love with her at first sig… (Read More)
Themes: | writingbreak updivorce |
Locations: | restaurantnew york city |
Characters: | writerteacher |
Story: | new york skylinecentral park manhattan new york citypremarital sexdirected by starconvertiblewritten and directed by cast membermanhattan new york cityvoice over narrationcigarette smoking |
Hannah, Holly and Lee are adult sisters from a show business family, their boozy actress mother who still believes she's an ingenue that can attract any man she wants, despite still being married to the girls' father, Evan. Hannah, on her second marriage to a man named Elliot, a financial advisor, i …s the success of the family, taking a break from her acting career to raise her children. Everyone turns to her for advice, while she never talks to others about what she needs or feels. Her first husband, Mickey, is a comedy show writer and hypochondriac, who is going through a crisis as he mistakenly believes he will die soon without a clear belief, as a non-practicing Jew, of what will happen to him in the afterlife. Single Holly is the insecure flaky sister, a struggling and thus continually unemployed actress, who has just started a catering business with her actress friend April, in order to do something constructive with her life. In her own security, Hannah even set up Holly and Mickey together following her own break-up with Mickey, Holly and Mickey's sole date which arguably was the worst night in both their lives. Holly turns to Hannah for everything in her life, including money, despite feeling Hannah overly judgmental about her failures. It's during a catering job that Holly and April meet David, an architect, who seems interested in both of them. Holly's insecurities may threaten her potential relationship with David and friendship with April. Lee, who collects unempl… (Read More)
Themes: | writingdivorceextramarital affairadulterymarriage |
Locations: | urban settingnew york city |
Characters: | ex husband ex wife relationshiplove trianglewriterhusband wife relationship |
Story: | novelbookstoredirected by starman with glasseswomancigarette smoking |
Made of Honor revolves around Tom and Hannah, who have been platonic friends for 10 years. He's a serial dater, while she wants marriage but hasn't found Mr. Right. Just as Tom is starting to think that he is relationship material after all, Hannah gets engaged. When she asks Tom to be her "maid" of … honor, he reluctantly agrees just so he can attempt to stop the wedding and woo her. (Read More)
Themes: | divorcemarriage |
Locations: | museumrestaurantnew york city |
Characters: | studenthusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | central park manhattan new york cityprologuewomanmanhattan new york citycafetelephone calltitle spoken by characterdog |
Shaun Brumder is a local surfer kid from Orange County who dreams of going to Stanford to become a writer and to get away from his disfunctional family household. Except Shaun runs into one complication after another starting when his application is rejected after his dim-witted guidance counselor s …ends the wrong application. So, Shaun goes to great lengths with a little help from his girlfriend Ashley and his drugged-out loser brother Lance to get into Stanford any way they see fit. (Read More)
Themes: | writingdivorce |
Characters: | older man younger woman relationshipwriterteacherteenage girlboyfather son relationship |
Story: | sex with a minordivorced parentscollegebookdog |
Paris, je t'aime is about the plurality of cinema in one mythic location: Paris, the City of Love. Twenty filmmakers have five minutes each; the audience must weave a single narrative out of twenty moments. The 20 moments are fused by transitional interstitial sequences and also via the introduction … and epilogue. Each transition begins with the last shot of the previous film and ends with the first shot of the following film, extending the enchantment and the emotion of the previous segment, preparing the audience for a surprise, and providing a cohesive atmosphere. There's a reappearing mysterious character who is a witness to the Parisian life. A common theme of Paris and love fuses all. (Read More)
Themes: | break updatingdivorceextramarital affairadulterymarriage |
Locations: | urban settingrestaurant |
Characters: | older man younger woman relationshipteenage girlhusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | womancafeplace name in titlerunningvoice over narrationtelephone callcigarette smokingdog |
Fielding Mellish (a consumer products tester) becomes infatuated with Nancy (a political activist). He attends demonstrations and tries in other ways to convince her that he is worthy of her love, but Nancy wants someone with greater leadership potential. Fielding runs off to San Marcos where he joi …ns the rebels and eventually becomes President of the country. While on a trip to the states, he meets Nancy again and she falls for him now that he is a political leader. (Read More)
Themes: | break up |
Mood: | satire |
Locations: | new york city |
Period: | 1970s |
Story: | delifundraiserbookstorepremarital sexdirected by starwritten and directed by cast memberman with glassestitle spoken by characterone word title |
John "Scottie" Ferguson is a retired San Francisco police detective who suffers from acrophobia and Madeleine is the lady who leads him to high places. A wealthy shipbuilder who is an acquaintance from college days approaches Scottie and asks him to follow his beautiful wife, Madeleine. He fears she … is going insane, maybe even contemplating suicide, he believes she is possessed by a dead ancestor. Scottie is skeptical, but agrees after he sees the beautiful Madeleine. (Read More)
Themes: | adultery |
Locations: | museumapartmentrestaurant |
Characters: | older man younger woman relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | imageryclothing storeage differencemay december romancebookstorecollegevoice over narrationtitle spoken by charactercigarette smokingone word title |
Arrogant, self-centered movie director Guido Contini finds himself struggling to find meaning, purpose, and a script for his latest film endeavor. With only a week left before shooting begins, he desperately searches for answers and inspiration from his wife, his mistress, his muse, and his mother. …As his chaotic profession steadily destroys his personal life, Guido must find a balance between creating art and succumbing to its obsessive demands. (Read More)
Themes: | writingextramarital affairadultery |
Characters: | love trianglewriterteacherboyhusband wife relationship |
Story: | reference to federico fellinicheating husbandconvertiblewomanrunningvoice over narrationtelephone callcigarette smokingone word title |
A week before his friend Jack is to be married, best man Miles and the prospective groom head off to wine country for a week of fun, relaxation and - of course - wine drinking. Miles is the oenophile and does his best to teach Jack a bit about the art of appreciating great wine. All Jack cares about … is drinking and carousing, something he accomplishes when he meets the attractive Stephanie at one of the vineyards. Miles is something of a sad sack, a high school English teacher who is a failed writer at heart. He has yet to get over the fact that his wife has divorced him and that she has remarried and he now faces that nerve racking wait for word from a prospective publisher. Miles has an opportunity to start anew when he meets Stephanie's friend Maya but when he let's slip that Jack is about to be married any hope of a relationship seems to be lost. (Read More)
Themes: | writingdivorceextramarital affairmarriage |
Mood: | satire |
Locations: | restaurant |
Characters: | writerteacher |
Story: | novelpremarital sexconvertibledinertelephone callone word title |
Larry and Carol are fairly normal New Yorkers who have sent their son off to college. They meet an elderly couple down the hall and later in the week find that the wife has suddenly died. Carol becomes suspicious of Paul who seems to be too cheerful and too ready to move on. She begins her investiga …tion. Larry insists she is becoming too fixated on their neighbor as all of the irregularities seem to have simple non-homicidal explanations. Ted, a recently divorced friend helps her investigation and Larry begins to become jealous of their relationship and agrees to help her. (Read More)
Themes: | marriage |
Locations: | urban settingapartmentrestaurantnew york city |
Characters: | writerhusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | tape recorderdirected by starwritten and directed by cast memberman with glassesmanhattan new york citycollegetelephone callcigarette smoking |
John Clasky is a devoted dad whose skills as a chef have offered his family a very upscale life, including a summer home in Malibu and a breathtaking new Mexican housekeeper, named Flor. She and her daughter Cristina have recently emigrated to L.A. from Mexico and are trying to find a better life. W …hen they move in with the Claskys for the summer, Flor has to fight for her daughter's soul as she discovers that life in a new country is perilous! (Read More)
Themes: | extramarital affairadulterymarriage |
Locations: | restaurant |
Characters: | boyhusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | convertiblewomancollegecaferunningvoice over narrationtelephone calldog |
Not an adaptation of beat writer William S. Burrough's novel but a mix of biography and an interpretation of his drug- induced writing processes combined with elements of his work in this paranoid fantasy about Bill Lee, a writer who accidentally shoots his wife, whose typewriter transforms into a c …ockroach and who becomes involved in a mysterious plot in North African port called Interzone. Wonderfully bizarre, not unlike Burrough's books. (Read More)
Themes: | writinglesbianismadultery |
Locations: | new york city |
Characters: | writer |
Story: | typewriterman with glassesdinercafetitle spoken by character |
The bitter, cynical and lonely Barbara Covett is a tough and conservative teacher, near to retirement, who is loathed by her colleagues and students. In the loneliness of her apartment, she spends her spare time writing her journal, taking care of her old cat Portia and missing her special friend Je …nnifer Dodd. When Sheba Hart joins the high-school as the new art teacher, Barbara dedicates her attention to the newcomer, writing sharp and unpleasant comments about her behavior and clothes. When Barbara helps Sheba in a difficult situation with two students, the grateful Sheba invites her to have lunch with her family. Sheba introduces her husband and former professor Richard Hart, who is about twenty years older than she; her rebellious teenager daughter Polly; and her son Ben that has Down's Syndrome. Barbara becomes close to Sheba, but when she accidentally discovers that Sheba is having an affair with the fifteen year-old student Steven Connolly, Barbara sees the chance to manipulate and get closer to Sheba, hiding the secret from the school headmaster. When Portia dies and Sheba does not stay with Barbara in the veterinary office to see Ben in a theater play, Barbara plots a Machiavellian revenge against Sheba, creating a scandal and consequent turmoil in their lives. (Read More)
Themes: | writingextramarital affairadulterymarriage |
Locations: | apartment |
Characters: | older man younger woman relationshipstudentteacherteenage girlhusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | sex with a minorage differencevoice over narrationtelephone callcigarette smoking |
Smart-but-ineffectual journalist Dan "We use euphemisms!" cannot decide between his girlfriend, loving-but-clingy waitress Alice, or his lover cold-but-intellectual photographer Anna; herself indecisive between Dan and honest-but-thuggish "You're bloody gorgeous!" doctor Larry. The film puts the fou …r leading characters in a box and strips them apart. (Read More)
Themes: | break updatingdivorceextramarital affairadulterymarriage |
Locations: | restaurantnew york city |
Characters: | love trianglewriterhusband wife relationship |
Story: | manhattan new york citycafebookcigarette smokingone word title |
In 1951, Laura Brown, a pregnant housewife, is planning a party for her husband, but she can't stop reading the novel 'Mrs. Dalloway'. Clarissa Vaughn, a modern woman living in present times is throwing a party for her friend Richard, a famous author dying of AIDS. These two stories are simultaneous …ly linked to the work and life of Virginia Woolf, who's writing the novel mentioned before. (Read More)
Themes: | writinglesbianism |
Locations: | new york city |
Characters: | lesbian motherex husband ex wife relationshipwriterhusband wife relationship |
Story: | novelgay parentwomantitle spoken by charactercigarette smoking |
Ben has recently graduated from college, with his parents now expecting great things from him. At his "Homecoming" party, Mrs. Robinson, the wife of his father's business partner, has Ben drive her home, which leads to an affair between the two. The affair eventually ends, but comes back to haunt hi …m when he finds himself falling for Elaine, Mrs. Robinson's daughter. (Read More)
Themes: | break updivorceextramarital affairadulterymarriage |
Mood: | satire |
Characters: | love trianglehusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | may december romanceconvertiblewomancollegerunningtelephone call |
Humbert Humbert forces a confrontation with a man, whose name he has just recently learned, in this man's home. The events that led to this standoff began four years earlier. Middle aged Humbert, a European, arrives in the United States where he has secured at job at Beardsley College in Beardsley, …Ohio as a Professor of French Literature. Before he begins his post in the fall, he decides to spend the summer in the resort town of Ramsdale, New Hampshire. He is given the name of Charlotte Haze as someone who is renting a room in her home for the summer. He finds that Charlotte, widowed now for seven years, is a woman who puts on airs. Among the demonstration of those airs is throwing around the name of Clare Quilty, a television and stage script writer, who came to speak at her women's club meeting and who she implies is now a friend. Those airs also mask being lonely, especially as she is a sexually aggressive and liberated woman. Humbert considers Charlotte a proverbial "joke" but decides to rent the room upon meeting Charlotte's provocative daughter, Dolores Haze - more frequently referred to as Lolita - who he first spots in a bikini tanning in the back yard. He is immediately infatuated with Lolita, with who he becomes obsessed in a sexual manner despite her age, she being just into her teens. He will also learn that Charlotte has the exact same feelings for him. While Charlotte does whatever she can to be alone with Humbert, Humbert does the same with Lolita. As the summ… (Read More)
Themes: | writingmarriage |
Mood: | satire |
Characters: | writerteenage girl |
Story: | lolitasex with a minorage differencemay december romancetypewriterwomantelevisioncollegetitle spoken by characterone word title |
A man, Joel Barish, heartbroken that his girlfriend Clementine underwent a procedure to erase him from her memory, decides to do the same. However, as he watches his memories of her fade away, he realizes that he still loves her, and may be too late to correct his mistake.
Themes: | break upextramarital affairadultery |
Characters: | older man younger woman relationshiplove triangleboyhusband wife relationship |
Story: | bookstoreprologueman with glasseswomanrunningtelephone calltitle spoken by characterdog |
Sutter Keely lives in the now. It's a good place for him. A high school senior, charming and self-possessed, he's the life of the party, loves his job at a men's clothing store, and has no plans for the future. A budding alcoholic, he's never far from his supersized, whiskey-fortified thirst-master …cup. But after being dumped by his girlfriend, Sutter gets drunk and wakes up on a lawn with Aimee Finecky hovering over him. She's different: the "nice girl" who reads science fiction and doesn't have a boyfriend. While Aimee has dreams of a future, Sutter lives in the impressive delusion of a spectacular now, yet somehow, they're drawn together. (Read More)
Themes: | break updatingdivorcemarriage |
Characters: | teacherteenage girlhusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | clothing store17 year oldbookstorecheating husbandprologuevoice over narrationtelephone callcigarette smoking |
Television made him famous, but his biggest hits happened off screen. "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind" is the story of a legendary showman's double life - television producer by day, CIA assassin by night. At the height of his TV career, Chuck Barris was recruited by the CIA and trained to become a … covert operative. Or so Barris said. (Read More)
Themes: | datingextramarital affairadulterymarriage |
Locations: | restaurantnew york city |
Characters: | boyfather son relationship |
Period: | 1970s |
Story: | television industrytv studiopremarital sexmanhattan new york citytelevisionvoice over narrationcigarette smokingdog |
William Miller is a 15-year-old kid hired by Rolling Stone magazine to tour with and write about Stillwater, an up and coming rock band. This wonderfully witty coming-of-age film follows William as he falls face first to confront life, love, and lingo.
Themes: | adultery |
Locations: | new york city |
Characters: | older man younger woman relationshiplove triangleteacherteenage girlboy |
Period: | 1970s |
Story: | thunderstormcheating husbandpremarital sexprologuerunningbooktelephone callcigarette smoking |
A serial killer in the San Francisco Bay Area taunts police with his letters and cryptic messages. We follow the investigators and reporters in this lightly fictionalized account of the true 1970's case as they search for the murderer, becoming obsessed with the case. Based on Robert Graysmith's boo …k, the movie's focus is the lives and careers of the detectives and newspaper people. (Read More)
Themes: | writingdivorce |
Locations: | restaurant |
Characters: | writerteenage girlboyhusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Period: | 1970s |
Story: | tape recorderprologueman with glassesdinercaferunningbooktelephone calltitle spoken by charactercigarette smokingone word title |