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The Blandings live in New York in a tiny apartment. They decide to move to the country and find that buying and building and living in their own home is easier said than done.
Themes: | jealousymoneymarriagefriendship |
Mood: | movingbreaking the fourth wallsatire |
Locations: | water wellsinging in the showerapartmentnew york city |
Characters: | engineersecretarylawyerfriendafrican americanfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
Period: | 1940s |
Story: | house demolitionbuilding contractorsmashing a windowknocking on a windowlocked in a closetmoving vanadvertising campaignadvertising executivereading someone's diarydilapidated housebuilding a houselooking at oneself in a mirrortelephone callreference to the republican partyreference to reno nevada β¦imitating someonereference to the united nationsreference to ulysses s. grantblueberry pietwin bedssteam shovelwater springfloor planbreaking dishessnapping fingersbuilding constructionbrushing one's teethcovered bridgecollateraleviction noticescaffoldingcommutingclassified adwaving goodbyeinterior decoratorreference to snow whitehamremodelingdoor lockfictional towncontractorcanarybirdcageblueprintconnecticutnecktiemortgagebulldozerwindowdistrustdemolitionrealtorhonestywriter's blockbathrobeold flamewellconstruction workerpaintadvertisementclosethandshakepipe smokingalarm clockpajamashousekeeperrainstormdynamiteadvertisinghousewifeconstruction sitenicknamefloodbreakfastarchitectcookfireplaceshavingblack americantrustsplit screenconvertiblediaryfantasy sequencecoffeecigar smokingapologyhousemontagenewspapermanhattan new york citytelephonebathroommirrorvoice over narrationshowerphotographcigarette smokingcharacter name in titlebased on novelkiss (See All) |
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: β¦ truly reaching another person means bravely stretching into uncomfortable territory and the resulting shake-up can be liberating. (Read More)
Themes: | jealousy |
Mood: | moving |
Locations: | apartmentnew york city |
Characters: | engineerlawyerafrican americanfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | looking at oneself in a mirrortelephone callclosetblack americanapologymanhattan new york citymirrorvoice over narrationphotographcharacter name in titlekiss |
The story concentrates on the social re-adjustment of three World War II servicemen, each from a different station of society. Al Stephenson returns to an influential banking position, but finds it hard to reconcile his loyalties to ex-servicemen with new commercial realities. Fred Derry is an ordin β¦ary working man who finds it difficult to hold down a job or pick up the threads of his marriage. Having had both hands burnt off during the war, Homer Parrish is unsure that his fiancee's feelings are still those of love and not those of pity. Each of the veterans faces a crisis upon his arrival, and each crisis is a microcosm of the experiences of many American warriors who found an alien world awaiting them when they came marching home. (Read More)
Themes: | moneymarriage |
Locations: | apartment |
Characters: | father daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
Period: | 1940s |
Story: | telephone callcollateralbathrobeclosethandshakepipe smokingpajamasbreakfastconvertiblecoffeecigar smokingnewspaperbathroommirrorshower β¦photographcigarette smokingbased on novelkiss (See All) |
Ellie Andrews has just tied the knot with society aviator King Westley when she is whisked away to her father's yacht and out of King's clutches. Ellie jumps ship and eventually winds up on a bus headed back to her husband. Reluctantly she must accept the help of out-of- work reporter Peter Warne. A β¦ctually, Warne doesn't give her any choice: either she sticks with him until he gets her back to her husband, or he'll blow the whistle on Ellie to her father. Either way, Peter gets what (he thinks!) he wants .... a really juicy newspaper story. (Read More)
Themes: | moneymarriage |
Locations: | new york city |
Characters: | husband wife relationship |
Story: | telephone callbathrobepipe smokingpajamasrainstormbreakfastcoffeecigar smokingapologymontagenewspapershowercigarette smokingkiss |
59 year old Ove is the block's grumpy man who several years earlier was deposed as president of the condominium association, but he could not give a damn about being deposed and therefore keeps looking over the neighborhood with an iron fist. When pregnant Parvaneh and her family moves into the terr β¦aced house opposite and accidentally backs into Ove's mailbox it turns out to be an unexpected friendship. A drama comedy about unexpected friendship, love and the importance of surrounding yourself with the proper tools. (Read More)
Themes: | moneyfriendship |
Characters: | engineerfriendmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | looking at oneself in a mirrortelephone callpajamasbreakfastcoffeeapologyhousenewspapertelephonemirrorvoice over narrationphotographcharacter name in titlebased on novelkiss |
Characters: | father daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | looking at oneself in a mirrortelephone callconstruction workerhandshakeconstruction sitearchitectshavingtrustcoffeeapologymontagetelephonemirrorshowercigarette smoking β¦based on novelkiss (See All) |
When two people "connect" the bond between them can be so pure and simple as to stir hearts in heaven. When they connect in all the right places at all the wrong times, heaven weeps for broken hearts. To heal these broken hearts, heaven breaks time.
Characters: | lawyerafrican americanfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | construction workerpaintconstruction sitearchitectblack americansplit screencoffeehousemirrorkiss |
As of November 1, 1959, mild mannered C.C. Baxter has been working at Consolidated Life, an insurance company, for close to four years, and is one of close to thirty-two thousand employees located in their Manhattan head office. To distinguish himself from all the other lowly cogs in the company in β¦the hopes of moving up the corporate ladder, he often works late, but only because he can't get into his apartment, located off of Central Park West, since he has provided it to a handful of company executives - Mssrs. Dobisch, Kirkeby, Vanderhoff and Eichelberger - on a rotating basis for their extramarital liaisons in return for a good word to the personnel director, Jeff D. Sheldrake. When Baxter is called into Sheldrake's office for the first time, he learns that it isn't just to be promoted as he expects, but also to add married Sheldrake to the list to who he will lend his apartment. What Baxter is unaware of is that Sheldrake's mistress is Fran Kubelik, an elevator girl in the building who Baxter himself fancies. In turn, Sheldrake has no idea of Baxter's own interest in Fran. And Fran, who is in love with Sheldrake, has no idea that she is only the latest in a long line of Sheldrake's mistresses, that Sheldrake has no intention of leaving his wife for her, and that the apartment belongs to Baxter, who she likes as a friend. As some of these facts come to light on Christmas Eve, one of the three makes a unilateral decision. That decision sets off a series of events over the β¦ (Read More)
Themes: | money |
Mood: | movingsatire |
Locations: | apartmentnew york city |
Characters: | secretaryfriendhusband wife relationship |
Story: | telephone callreference to reno nevadabathrobeold flamepajamasshavingcoffeemanhattan new york citybathroommirrorphotographcigarette smokingkiss |
John and Jane Smith are a normal married couple, living a normal life in a normal suburb, working normal jobs...well, if you can call secretly being assassins "normal". But neither Jane nor John knows about their spouse's secret, until they are surprised to find each other as targets! But on their q β¦uest to kill each other, they learn a lot more about each other than they ever did in five (or six) years of marriage. (Read More)
Themes: | moneymarriagefriendship |
Locations: | new york city |
Characters: | engineerfriendfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | building contractortelephone callbuilding constructiondistrustconstruction sitetrustapologynewspapermanhattan new york citybathroommirrorphotographcharacter name in titlekiss |
It's 2003. Thirty-eight-year-old graphic artist Oliver Fields has just lost his father Hal Fields to cancer, after Oliver's mother Georgia Fields passed away five years earlier. Oliver is naturally a sullen man due to his growing up relationships with his parents (his mother who had a unique view on β¦ life) and watching his parents' cordial but somewhat distant relationship with each other, but is more so now because of his personal family losses. Oliver embarks on a relationship with Anna, a French actress, hoping that his re-energized relationship with Hal following Georgia's death, and Hal's new outlook on life during that time, will show Oliver how to act in a loving relationship. After Georgia's death, Hal came out of the closet and began to live with a joie de vivre that did not exist before, which included an open relationship with a much younger man named Andy. Oliver's relationship with Anna has other obstacles, including Anna's own vagabond lifestyle and Oliver needing to take care of who was originally Hal's very needy Jack Russell terrier, Arthur. (Read More)
Themes: | marriagefriendship |
Locations: | apartmentnew york city |
Characters: | friendafrican americanmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | telephone calldistrustclosetpipe smokingshavingblack americantrustapologymontagebathroommirrorvoice over narrationphotographcigarette smokingkiss |
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 β¦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: | moneymarriage |
Characters: | mother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | telephone callrealtorhousekeepercookconvertiblenewspapervoice over narrationshowerkiss |
Uxbal, single father of two children, finds his life in chaos as he is forced to deal with his life in order to escape the heat of crime in underground Barcelona, to break with the love for the divorced, manic depressive, abusive mother of his children and to regain spiritual insight in his life as β¦he is diagnosed with terminal cancer. (Read More)
Themes: | moneymarriage |
Characters: | father daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | looking at oneself in a mirrortelephone callreference to the united nationsdistrustconstruction workerconstruction sitetrustapologymontagetelephonebathroommirrorshowerphotographcigarette smoking β¦kiss (See All) |
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 β¦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: | jealousymarriagefriendship |
Mood: | moving |
Locations: | new york city |
Characters: | friendmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
Period: | 1940s |
Story: | necktiehousekeeperhousewifeconvertiblemanhattan new york citybased on novel |
Outside a movie premiere, enthusiastic fan Peppy Miller literally bumps into the swashbuckling hero of the silent film, George Valentin. The star reacts graciously and Peppy plants a kiss on his cheek as they are surrounded by photographers. The headlines demand: "Who's That Girl?" and Peppy is insp β¦ired to audition for a dancing bit-part at the studio. However as Peppy slowly rises through the industry, the introduction of talking-pictures turns Valentin's world upside-down. (Read More)
Themes: | jealousyfriendship |
Locations: | apartment |
Characters: | friendhusband wife relationship |
Story: | looking at oneself in a mirrorpajamassplit screenfantasy sequencecigar smokingapologymontagenewspapertelephonemirrorphotographcigarette smokingkiss |
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 β¦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: | marriagefriendship |
Locations: | new york city |
Characters: | lawyerfriendfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | telephone callold flameapologynewspaperbathroommirrorshowerphotographcigarette smokingkiss |
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 β¦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: | jealousymoneymarriagefriendship |
Characters: | friendafrican americanmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | telephone callhandshakeblack americantrustapologymontagetelephonevoice over narrationshowercigarette smokingbased on novelkiss |
Victor Novarski reaches JFK airport from a politically unstable country. Due to collapse of his government, his papers are no longer valid in the airport, and hence he is forced to stay in the airport till the war cools down. He makes the airport his home and develops a friendship with the people wh β¦o work there until he can leave. (Read More)
Themes: | moneyfriendship |
Locations: | new york city |
Story: | building contractortelephone callbathrobeconstruction workerconstruction siteshavingmontagemanhattan new york cityphotographcigarette smokingkiss |
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 β¦ begins a relationship with Alex, who is Dan's daughter. (Read More)
Themes: | marriagefriendship |
Locations: | new york city |
Characters: | friendfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | advertising executivetelephone callmortgagehandshakeadvertisingshavingmanhattan new york cityshowerphotograph |
Seventeen-year-old Greg has managed to become part of every social group at his Pittsburgh high school without having any friends, but his life changes when his mother forces him to befriend Rachel, a girl he once knew in Hebrew school who has leukemia.
Themes: | friendship |
Characters: | friendafrican americanmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | looking at oneself in a mirrortelephone callhonestynicknameblack americantrustapologymontagetelephonemirrorvoice over narrationphotographbased on novel |
In the early 1940s, Allen Ginsberg is an English major at Columbia University, only to learn more than he bargained for. Dissatisfied by the orthodox attitudes of the school, Allen finds himself drawn to iconoclastic colleagues like Lucien Carr, William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac. Together, this β¦gang would explore bold new literary ideas that would challenge the sensibilities of their time as the future Beat Generation. However, for all their creativity, their very appetites and choices lead to more serious transgressions that would mark their lives forever. (Read More)
Themes: | jealousymoneyfriendship |
Locations: | new york city |
Characters: | lawyerfriendafrican american |
Period: | 1940s |
Story: | looking at oneself in a mirrortelephone callblack americanapologymanhattan new york citytelephonemirrorvoice over narrationshowerphotographcigarette smokingkiss |
The Bakers, a family of 14, move from small-town Illinois to the big city after Tom Baker gets his dream job to coach his alma mater's football team. Meanwhile, his wife also gets her dream of getting her book published. While she's away promoting the book, Tom has a hard time keeping the house in o β¦rder while at the same time coaching his football team, as the once happy family starts falling apart. (Read More)
Mood: | moving |
Characters: | mother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | moving vanbreakfasthousemanhattan new york citybathroommirrorvoice over narrationbased on novelkiss |
It's November 30, 1962. Native Brit George Falconer, an English professor at a Los Angeles area college, is finding it difficult to cope with life. Jim, his personal partner of sixteen years, died in a car accident eight months earlier when he was visiting with family. Jim's family were not going to β¦ tell George of the death or accident, let alone allow him to attend the funeral. This day, George has decided to get his affairs in order before he will commit suicide that evening. As he routinely and fastidiously prepares for the suicide and post suicide, George reminisces about his life with Jim. But George spends this day with various people, who see a man sadder than usual and who affect his own thoughts about what he is going to do. Those people include Carlos, a Spanish immigrant/aspiring actor/gigolo recently arrived in Los Angeles; Charley, his best friend who he knew from England, she who is a drama queen of a woman who romantically desires her best friend despite his sexual orientation; and Kenny Potter, one of his students, who seems to be curious about his professor beyond English class. (Read More)
Themes: | moneyfriendship |
Characters: | secretaryfriendfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
Period: | 1940s |
Story: | telephone callwaving goodbyehousekeeperarchitectfireplaceshavingfantasy sequencebathroommirrorvoice over narrationshowerphotographcigarette smokingbased on novelkiss |
Aspiring actress serves lattes to movie stars in between auditions and jazz musician Sebastian scrapes by playing cocktail-party gigs in dingy bars. But as success mounts, they are faced with decisions that fray the fragile fabric of their love affair, and the dreams they worked so hard to maintain β¦in each other threaten to rip them apart. (Read More)
Characters: | african americanmother daughter relationship |
Story: | knocking on a windowlooking at oneself in a mirrortelephone callsnapping fingerssplit screenconvertiblefantasy sequencecoffeeapologytelephonemirrorshowerphotographkiss |
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: | jealousymarriagefriendship |
Locations: | new york city |
Characters: | lawyerfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | telephone callpajamascookcigar smokingmontagemanhattan new york cityvoice over narrationphotographcigarette smokingkiss |
Echoes of "Madame Bovary" in the American suburbs. Sarah's in a loveless marriage to an advertising executive, long days with her young daughter at the park and the pool, wanting more. Brad is an immature househusband, married to a flinty documentary filmmaker. Ronnie is just out of prison - two yea β¦rs for indecent exposure to a minor - living with his elderly mother, May; Larry is a retired cop, fixated on driving Ronnie away. Sarah and Brad connect, a respite of adult companionship at the pool. Ronnie and Larry have their demons. Brad should be studying for the bar; Larry misses his job; Ronnie's mom thinks he needs a girlfriend. Sarah longs to refuse to be trapped in an unhappy life. Where can these tangled paths lead? (Read More)
Themes: | marriagefriendship |
Mood: | satire |
Characters: | lawyerfriendmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | advertising executivehandshakepajamasrainstormadvertisingcooksplit screenvoice over narrationshowerphotographbased on novelkiss |
A chance encounter between a travelling salesman and a lonely hitman triggers a strangely profound relationship which provokes each to act in ways neither would have imagined possible. Fate steps in to form a friendship between two men from irreconcilable worlds that will alter the lives of both for β¦ever. (Read More)
Themes: | moneyfriendship |
Characters: | friendhusband wife relationship |
Story: | telephone callmortgagealarm clockfireplacecoffeecigar smokingapologynewspaperbathroommirrorshowerphotographcigarette smokingkiss |
A love story and murder mystery based on the most notorious unsolved murder case in New York history. The original screenplay uses newly discovered facts, court records and speculation as the foundation for a story of family, obsession, love and loss.
Themes: | moneymarriagefriendship |
Locations: | apartmentnew york city |
Characters: | lawyerfriendmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | telephone calldistrustrealtortrustnewspapermanhattan new york citymirrorshowerphotographcigarette smokingkiss |
Steven Kovak has been kicked out of his apartment by his girlfriend. Steven has a new apartment, and decides to slip the cable guy (Chip) $50 for free cable. Steven then fakes an interest in Chip's line of work. However Chip takes this to heart trying to become Steven's best bud. When Steven no long β¦er wants to be Chips friend the man who can do it all goes on an all out assault to ruin Steven's life. In the backdrop is the delicate sub-plot of the trial of a former kid star for murdering his brother. (Read More)
Themes: | jealousyfriendship |
Mood: | satire |
Locations: | apartment |
Characters: | secretaryfriendhusband wife relationship |
Story: | construction workerrainstormconstruction sitearchitectmontagetelephoneshowerphotographcharacter name in title |
Themes: | money |
Locations: | new york city |
Characters: | husband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | telephone callmortgageconstruction workerpipe smokingbreakfastsplit screennewspapertelephonephotographcigarette smokingkiss |
In late 1951, Eilis Lacey, a young Irish girl, emigrates to Brooklyn. Sponsored by Father Flood, a priest from her native town Enniscorthy, she is assured to find a full-time job there. But the early days are tough, seasickness being soon replaced by loneliness and homesickness, two feelings all the β¦ more acutely felt by Eilis for having had to leave behind her widowed mother and her dear sister Rose. She nevertheless little by little manages to find her footing by adapting to her job as a salesgirl, by studying bookkeeping at Brooklyn College as well as with a little help from both Father Flood and Mrs. Kehoe, the owner of the boarding school she now lives in. And not only does graduation follow but love shows its face in Tony, an Italian-American plumber, full of adoration and respect for her. They end up marrying, although keeping the thing secret. It is at that point that tragedy strikes inciting Eilis to return to Enniscorthy to support her mother morally. And there a strange thing happens : she gradually gets lured by the charms of her native place, going far as to let herself be wooed by Jim Farrell, a young local. (Read More)
Themes: | jealousymoneymarriagefriendship |
Locations: | apartmentnew york city |
Characters: | friendmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | looking at oneself in a mirrortelephone callwaving goodbyepipe smokingapologymanhattan new york citytelephonebathroommirrorphotographcigarette smokingbased on novelkiss |
Themes: | jealousymarriagefriendship |
Characters: | lawyerfriendafrican americanmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | telephone callhonestynicknameblack americansplit screenapologymanhattan new york citytelephonecigarette smokingkiss |
Cal (Steve Carell) and Emily (Julianne Moore) have the perfect life together living the American dream... until Emily asks for a divorce. Now Cal, Mr Husband, has to navigate the single scene with a little help from his professional bachelor friend Jacob Palmer (Ryan Gosling). Make that a lot of hel β¦p... (Read More)
Themes: | moneymarriagefriendship |
Characters: | lawyerfriendmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | moving vantelephone callhonestycoffeemontagephotographkiss |
A visionary sheik believes his passion for the peaceful pastime of salmon fishing can enrich the lives of his people, and he dreams of bringing the sport to the not so fish-friendly desert. Willing to spare no expense, he instructs his representative to turn the dream into reality, an extraordinary β¦feat that will require the involvement of Britain's leading fisheries expert who happens to think the project both absurd and unachievable. That is, until the Prime Minister's overzealous press secretary latches on to it as a 'good will' story. Now, this unlikely team will put it all on the line and embark on an upstream journey of faith and fish to prove the impossible, possible. (Read More)
Themes: | moneymarriagefriendship |
Characters: | engineersecretaryfriendfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | telephone callhandshakefloodsplit screenapologymontagenewspapertelephonecigarette smokingbased on novelkiss |
A married couple who have managed to remain blissfully happy into their autumn years, are surrounded over the course of the four seasons of one average year by friends, colleagues, and family who all seem to suffer some degree of unhappiness.
Themes: | jealousymoneyfriendship |
Characters: | secretarylawyerfriendmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | looking at oneself in a mirrortelephone callcoffeeapologytelephonemirrorcigarette smokingkiss |
When Jane and Michael, the children of the wealthy and uptight Banks family, are faced with the prospect of a new nanny, they are pleasantly surprised by the arrival of the magical Mary Poppins. Embarking on a series of fantastical adventures with Mary and her Cockney performer friend, Bert, the sib β¦lings try to pass on some of their nanny's sunny attitude to their preoccupied parents. (Read More)
Themes: | marriage |
Mood: | breaking the fourth wall |
Characters: | friendfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | housekeeperrainstormcookfireplaceapologymirrorcharacter name in titlebased on novel |
Friendship, love, and coming of age in New York City, summer of 1994. Luke Shapiro has just graduated from high school, sells marijuana, and trades pot for therapy from a psychologist, Dr. Jeffrey Squires. Luke is attracted to a classmate, Stephanie, who's out of his league and Squires' step-daughte β¦r. By July, he's hanging out with Stephanie, taking her on his rounds selling pot out of an ice-cream pushcart. Then things take a turn. In the background, Squires and his wife as well as Luke's parents are having their troubles. (Read More)
Themes: | moneyfriendship |
Locations: | new york city |
Characters: | friendafrican americanmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | telephone callfantasy sequencecoffeemontagenewspapermanhattan new york citybathroommirrorvoice over narrationshowerphotographcigarette smokingkiss |
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 β¦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 tβ¦ (Read More)
Themes: | marriagefriendship |
Mood: | moving |
Locations: | apartment |
Characters: | lawyerfriendhusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | building contractorrealtorconvertiblehousemontagebathroomvoice over narrationphotographbased on novelkiss |
Cathy is the perfect 50s housewife, living the perfect 50s life: healthy kids, successful husband, social prominence. Then one night she stumbles in on her husband Frank, kissing another man, and her tidy world starts spinning out of control. In her confusion and grief, she finds consolation in the β¦friendship of their African-American gardener, Raymond - a socially taboo relationship that leads to the further disintegration of life as she knew it. Despite Cathy and Frank's struggle to keep their marriage afloat, the reality of his homosexuality and her feelings for Raymond open a painful, if more honest, chapter in their lives. (Read More)
Themes: | marriagefriendship |
Characters: | secretaryafrican americanhusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | advertising executiveconnecticuthousekeeperhousewifetelephonecigarette smoking |
Nic and Jules are in a long term, committed, loving but by no means perfect same-sex relationship. Nic, a physician, needs to wield what she believes is control, whereas Jules, under that control, is less self-assured. During their relationship, Jules has floundered in her "nine to five" life, somet β¦imes trying to start a business - always unsuccessfully - or being the stay-at-home mom. She is currently trying to start a landscape design business. They have two teen-aged children, Joni (conceived by Nic) and Laser (by Jules). Although not exact replicas, each offspring does more closely resemble his/her biological mother in temperament. Joni and Laser are also half-siblings, having the same unknown sperm donor father. Shortly after Joni's eighteenth birthday and shortly before she plans to leave the house and head off to college, Laser, only fifteen and underage to do so, pleads with her to try and contact their sperm donor father. Somewhat reluctantly, she does. He is late thirty-something Paul, a co-op farmer and restaurateur. Despite his seemingly successful businesses, Paul has always shirked responsibility, most specifically in his personal life. After Joni and Laser meet with Paul, Nic and Jules learn what their children have done and, although they don't want Paul infiltrating their lives, want to meet him - especially as Joni and Laser seem to want to maintain some sort of relationship with him. As Paul's relationship with the entire family grows (which includes his hiβ¦ (Read More)
Themes: | jealousymoneymarriagefriendship |
Characters: | friendafrican americanfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | telephone callwaving goodbyepajamasnicknameblack americancoffeeapologyhousemontagebathroomshowerphotographcigarette smokingkiss |
At the age of 38, Mark O'Brien, a man who uses an iron lung, decides he no longer wishes to be a virgin. With the help of his therapist and his priest, he contacts Cheryl Cohen-Greene, a professional sex surrogate and a typical soccer mom with a house, a mortgage and a husband. Inspired by a true st β¦ory, The Sessions, follows the fascinating relationship which evolves between Cheryl and Mark as she takes him on his journey to manhood. (Read More)
Themes: | jealousymoneyfriendship |
Characters: | friendmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | telephone callmortgagefantasy sequencecoffeeapologyhousenewspapertelephonevoice over narrationcigarette smokingkiss |
It's a world where everyone tells the truth - and just about anything they're thinking. Mark Bellison is a screenwriter, about to be fired. He's short and chunky with a flat nose - a genetic setup that means he won't get to first base with Anna, the woman he loves. At a bank, on the spur of the mome β¦nt he blurts out a fib, with eye-popping results. Then, when his mother's on her deathbed, frightened of the eternal void awaiting her, Mark invents fiction. The hospital staff overhear his description of Heaven, believe every word, and tell others. Soon Mark is a prophet, his first inventive screenplay makes him rich, and he's basically a good guy. But will that be enough for Anna? (Read More)
Themes: | jealousymoneymarriagefriendship |
Mood: | breaking the fourth wallsatire |
Characters: | secretaryfriendmother daughter relationship |
Story: | telephone callhonestyalarm clockapologymontagenewspapervoice over narrationkiss |
Set on a colorful Greek island, the plot serves as a background for a wealth of ABBA songs. A young woman about to be married discovers that any one of three men could be her father. She invites all three to the wedding without telling her mother, Donna, who was once the lead singer of Donna and the β¦ Dynamos. In the meantime, Donna has invited her backup singers, Rosie and Tanya. (Read More)
Themes: | moneyfriendship |
Mood: | breaking the fourth wall |
Locations: | new york city |
Characters: | friendfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationship |
Story: | old flamearchitectsplit screendiaryfantasy sequencemirrorphotographkiss |
In 1959, 'Alfred Hitchcock (I)' (qv) and his wife, 'Alma Reville' (qv), are at the top of their creative game as filmmakers amid disquieting insinuations about it being time to retire. To recapture his youth's artistic daring, Alfred decides his next film will adapt the lurid horror novel, _Psycho ( β¦1960)_ (qv), over everyone's misgivings. Unfortunately, as Alfred self-finances and labors on this film, Alma finally loses patience with his roving eye and controlling habits with his actresses. When an ambitious friend lures her to collaborate on a work of their own, the resulting marital tension colors Alfred's work even as the novel's inspiration haunts his dreams. (Read More)
Themes: | jealousy |
Characters: | secretaryfriendhusband wife relationship |
Period: | 1940s |
Story: | looking at oneself in a mirrortelephone calltwin bedspajamascigar smokingtelephonemirrorshowerphotographkiss |
Vincent is an old Vietnam vet whose stubbornly hedonistic ways have left him without money or a future. Things change when his new next-door neighbor's son, Oliver, needs a babysitter and Vince is willing enough for a fee. From that self-serving act, an unexpected friendship forms as Vincent and Oli β¦ver find so much of each other's needs through each other. As Vincent mentors Oliver in street survival and other worldly ways, Oliver begins to see more in the old man than just his foibles. When life takes a turn for the worse for Vincent, both them find the best in each other than no one around them suspects. (Read More)
Themes: | moneyfriendship |
Locations: | new york city |
Characters: | lawyerfriendhusband wife relationship |
Story: | telephone callnecktiebreakfastconvertibleapologymontagenewspapertelephonephotographcigarette smokingcharacter name in title |
Kate and her actor brother live in N.Y. in the 21st Century. Her ex-boyfriend, Stuart, lives above her apartment. Stuart finds a space near the Brooklyn Bridge where there is a gap in time. He goes back to the 19th Century and takes pictures of the place. Leopold -- a man living in the 1870s -- is p β¦uzzled by Stuart's tiny camera, follows him back through the gap, and they both ended up in the present day. Leopold is clueless about his new surroundings. He gets help and insight from Charlie who thinks that Leopold is an actor who is always in character. Leopold is a highly intelligent man and tries his best to learn and even improve the modern conveniences that he encounters. (Read More)
Themes: | money |
Locations: | apartmentnew york city |
Story: | advertising executivetelephone calladvertisingcoffeemanhattan new york citytelephonephotographcigarette smokingcharacter name in titlekiss |
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 β¦m when he finds himself falling for Elaine, Mrs. Robinson's daughter. (Read More)
Themes: | jealousymarriage |
Mood: | satire |
Characters: | lawyermother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | telephone callrainstormhousewifeshavingconvertibleapologybased on novelkiss |
In San Francisco in the 1950s, Margaret was a woman trying to make it on her own after leaving her husband with only her daughter and her paintings. She meets gregarious ladies' man and fellow painter Walter Keane in a park while she was struggling to make an impact with her drawings of children wit β¦h big eyes. The two quickly become a pair with outgoing Walter selling their paintings and quiet Margaret holed up at home painting even more children with big eyes. But Walter's actually selling her paintings as his own. A clash of financial success and critical failure soon sends Margaret reeling in her life of lies. With Walter still living the high life, Margaret's going to have to try making it on her own again and re-claiming her name and her paintings. (Read More)
Themes: | moneymarriagefriendship |
Locations: | new york city |
Characters: | lawyerfriendfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | looking at oneself in a mirrortelephone callrealtornicknameapologymontagenewspapertelephonemirrorvoice over narrationphotographcigarette smokingkiss |
A suburban Chicago teenager's parents leave on vacation, and he cuts loose. An unauthorised trip in his father's Porsche means a sudden need for lots of money, which he raises in a creative way.
Themes: | jealousymoneyfriendship |
Characters: | friend |
Story: | telephone callshavingfantasy sequencehousetelephonebathroomshower |
Buddy was a baby in an orphanage who stowed away in Santa's sack and ended up at the North Pole. Later, as an adult human who happened to be raised by elves, Santa allows him to go to New York City to find his birth father, Walter Hobbs. Hobbs, on Santa's naughty list for being a heartless jerk, had β¦ no idea that Buddy was even born. Buddy, meanwhile, experiences the delights of New York City (and human culture) as only an elf can. When Walter's relationship with Buddy interferes with his job, he is forced to reevaluate his priorities. (Read More)
Themes: | money |
Mood: | breaking the fourth wall |
Locations: | new york city |
Characters: | husband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | telephone callbreakfastfireplacecoffeemontagemanhattan new york cityvoice over narrationshowerphotographcharacter name in titlekiss |