To kidnappere får sitt livs sjokk når de kidnapper kona (Bette Midler) til en meget rik mann (Danny DeVito), og truer henne på livet. For tro ikke at mannen blir fra seg av sorg og betaler ut løssummen ved første anledning. Nei da, han gjør akkurat det motsatte. Med glede nekter han å betale, og man aner feststemning over muligheten for at kona snart kan dø! Og ikke lenge etter skjønner kidnapperne hvorfor; dama er en pest og en plage og de får så mye kjeft som de aldri har opplevd før. Men med tiden får de høre hennes side av saken også, og da skjønner kidnapperne at mannen ikke er noe bedre han heller. Faktisk virker det som om ekteparet endelig har funnet den perfekt løsning på sine problemer!
In the midst of the Great Depression, manipulative emcee Rocky enlists contestants for a dance marathon offering a $1,500 cash prize. Among them are a failed actress, a middle-aged sailor, a delusional blonde and a pregnant girl.
A prequel to "Stone Cold", the story picks up after Jesse Stone is fired from the Los Angeles Police Department. He becomes an unlikely candidate recruited by a town council to become police chief of Paradise, MA, a small fishing town on Boston's North Shore. The board hopes his failed experience will keep him from digging too deep into the town's secrets. His first assignment is to investigate the murder of his predecessor whose death may be tied to a local domestic disturbance case, with connections to money laundering and murder involving some of the town's most affluent names as possible suspects.
Fletch jobbar som journalist. Forkledd som uteliggjar arbeider han med ei sak om narkotikahandelen på stranda i Los Angeles. Der blir han oppsøkt av ein mann som har dette forslaget: Drep meg og få 50 000 dollar. Fletch går med på å gjennomføre det vel planlagde mordet, men eigentleg set han i gang med å etterforske mannen som ønskjer å bli drepen. Med Chevy Chase, Joe Don Baker, Dana Wheeler-Nicholson, Richard Libertini og Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Regi: Michael Ritchie. Amerikansk komedie frå 1985. Med Chevy Chase, Joe Don Baker, Dana Wheeler-Nicholson, Richard Libertini og Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Regi: Michael Ritchie. Amerikansk komedie frå 1985.
Derrick is a struggling law student who takes a job as an awards show seat filler to make ends meet. One day, he is seated next to the beautiful pop superstar Jhnelle, who mistakes him for a well-known industry executive. With an instant chemistry, the unlikely pair begin to date.
Documentary from France's TV channel Canal+ about the making of the 2007 film 'La Vie en Rose' and Marion Cotillard's road to the Oscar for her performance as French singer Édith Piaf.
A dramatization of the goings on at a drug rehabilitation home. Filmed at the original Synanon House in Santa Monica, California.
It's the day before Christmas, the day before John's 21st birthday. He's a prostitute on Santa Monica Blvd in L.A., and he wants to spend that night and the next day at the posh Park Plaza Hotel. Meanwhile, Donner, a lad new to the streets, wants John to leave the city with him. John spends the day trying to figure out how to deal with Donner's friendship.
Masashi, who works at a Japanese restaurant in Santa Monica, gets acquainted with an international student named Kanai and they begin living together. An overseas location film that depicts young people from Japan living gay in the United States.
Forced onto the streets in her 50s, Marie found "home" at a Santa Monica laundromat. Taking shelter there for 20 years, Mimi's passion for pink, and living without looking back, has taken her from homelessness to Hollywood's red carpets.