Afin de protéger deux jeunes héritières menacées d'enlèvement, deux agents afro-américains du FBI les remplacent en prenant leur apparence.
Harry Sanborn (Jack Nicholson) fait beaucoup plus jeune que son âge et en profite pour être un incorrigible coureur de jupons. Pendant un week-end romantique au bord de la mer avec son nouvel amour, Marin, il ressent soudain une douleur dans la poitrine. Or ils sont dans la très belle maison de la mère de Marin : c'est ainsi qu'il va se retrouver à la merci de la maîtresse de maison, Erica Barry (Diane Keaton), une New Yorkaise divorcée, auteur de pièces de théâtre à succès. Mystérieuse à souhait, la « vieille » femme induit de nouveaux serrements de cœur chez Harry… romantiques cette fois ! Mais en séducteur invétéré, il se met à douter, et son médecin (Keanu Reeves), mettant à profit tout son charme et ses trente ans, entreprend de faire la conquête d'Erica. Pour la première fois de sa vie, Harry ne maîtrise plus le cours de son existence…
The lives of Ted and Marion Cole are thrown into disarray when their two adolescent sons die in a car wreck. Marion withdraws from Ted and Ruth, the couple's daughter. Ted, a well-known writer, hires as his assistant a student named Eddie, who looks oddly similar to one of the Coles' dead sons. The couple separate, and Marion begins an affair with Eddie, while Ted has a dalliance with his neighbor Evelyn.
Histoire vraie de la tante et de la cousine de Jacqueline Kennedy, jadis première dame des États-Unis, qui vivaient recluses dans une grande maison décrépite.
Edie Bouvier Beale and her mother, Edith, two aging, eccentric relatives of Jackie Kennedy Onassis, are the sole inhabitants of a Long Island estate. The women reveal themselves to be misfits with outsized, engaging personalities. Much of the conversation is centered on their pasts, as mother and daughter now rarely leave home.
After multi-millionaire Ted Ammon is found bludgeoned to death at his East Hampton estate, the fingers point to his estranged wife, Generosa Rand, and her lover, an electrician named Danny Pelosi.
A New York City man, Alex, takes an off-season trip to the Hamptons in attempt to escape his routine life in the city. While trying to spend his time relaxing, Alex ends up lost, putting him in contact with some life-changing locals during his night of adventures.
A woman recounts her sensual yet macabre childhood memory about the boy next door.
Helena Mora, the head of an eccentric theatrical family, has decided to sell her large estate in the Hamptons because of her recent money troubles. Before she completes the sale, she wants to have one last gathering of family and friends, with dramatic performances. Bringing everyone together, though, creates rivalries and tension, especially for Oona, a temperamental but successful movie actress who seeks the approval of her creative peers.
Four couples spend the weekend at a Bed and Breakfast in the Hamptons run by an eccentric German sea captain and his strange family.