Various lives converge on an isolated island, all connected by an author whose novel has become inextricably entwined with his own life.
La patru ani după ce asistenta Greg (zis și Gaylord) Focker a reușit să-și piardă bagajele, să înceapă un foc și să picteze o pisică în weekend într-o casă a socrilor săi, a reușit în sfârșit să-și câștige încrederea socrului său și totul este planuri de nunta. Există doar un mic obstacol de depășit: viitoarele autorități trebuie să petreacă un weekend împreună pentru a ne cunoaște mai bine și, mai ales, pentru ca Jack, tatăl miresei, să-i poată studia pe părinții lui Greg. Totul pare să meargă bine până când Jack va descoperi că părinții lui Greg (un avocat și, respectiv, un doctor) sunt prea liberali: el are grijă de casă și ea este o terapeută senior.
Simon Birch and Joe Wenteworth are boys who have a reputation for being oddballs. Joe never knew his father, and his mother, Rebecca, is keeping her lips sealed no matter how much he protests. Simon, meanwhile, is an 11-year-old dwarf whose outsize personality belies his small stature. Indeed, he often assails the local reverend with thorny theological questions and joins Joe on his quest to find his biological father.
A pianist about to flee from a duel receives a letter from a woman he cannot remember. As she tells the story of her lifelong love for him, he is forced to reinterpret his own past.
Tullio Hermil is a chauvinist aristocrat who flaunts his mistress to his wife, but when he believes she has been unfaithful he becomes enamored of her again.
In Apache territory, a supply Army column heads for the next fort, an ex-scout searches for the killer of his Native wife, and a housewife abandons her husband to rejoin her Apache lover's tribe.
When a theater troupe's master visits his old flame, he unintentionally sets off a chain of unexpected events with devastating consequences. A remake of Ozu's own silent film The Story of Floating Weeds (1934).
A middle-aged married wealthy white corporate executive is surprised to discover that he has a working-class black teen-age son who wants to be adopted into the almost-exclusively-white upper-middle-class community of San Marino, California.
An aging actor returns to a small town with his troupe and reunites with his former lover and illegitimate son, a scenario that enrages his current mistress and results in heartbreak for all.
Andre Polonski si Marie-Claire Muller se casatoresc la Lausanne, dupa o convietuire de cativa ani. La randul ei, Jeanne locuieste la Lausanne si se pregateste sa devina pianista. Afland intamplator ca e fiica lui Andre dintr-o casnicie anterioara si ca fusese schimbata la nastere cu Guillaume Polonski, fata cauta un mod de a-si recastiga locul cuvenit in familie.
On the 20th anniversary of his death, the members of a James Dean fanclub gather at a five-and-dime for a reunion.
A motiveless malignancy? Elvis leaves the Navy and heads for Texas where he contacts his father, whom he's never met, the pastor at a Christian community church. Pastor Dave tells Elvis to stay away and, without telling his family that Elvis is his son from a pre-conversion liaison, tells them to have nothing to do with him. But Elvis has already connected with Malerie, the pastor's 16-year old daughter. Elvis embarks on the seduction of Malerie, while Dave examines his conscience and comes to a new conclusion. Can anyone get right with the Lord? Does the Lord hear?
Rahul and Anu Verghese meet on the same day, while both are held by the police on charges of creating a disturbance, and running away respectively. They meet again, and love happens. Rahul helps Anu to be independent, and seek a job. Then Anu is discovered by a talent agent to be a model, which she accepts. Rahul wants to marry Anu, but first must establish himself.
Glen, a complete stranger, appears at the door of Elizabeth Carter, a middle-aged woman, and claims to be the illegitimate son she gave away at birth.
After fathering a child, Maharaj Bahadur Singh marries and starts a family. One of his sons grows up to usurp him, the other to be Zorro.
After indulging in an affair with a man (a friend of the family) she truly loves, a woman returns to her young son and husband for good, and loses contact with the man. Her husband is unaware of the affair. Twenty years later, there is news that the friend has died and left all of his money to the younger son in the family, which leads us to question this younger son's biological origin.
The illegitimate son of a rich man and a singer is raised by a poor drunkard. Before he can commit to the girl he loves, he wants to find out who his parents really are. Will the drunkard help him?
A guilt-ridden U.S. Marine returns to Cuba to try to find the woman he promised to marry.
