Com a milers de novaiorquesos, Richard Sherman s'ha quedat treballant a l'agost mentre la dona i els fills gaudeixen d'unes grates vacances a la platja. Seguint les recomanacions de la seva dona, està disposat a deixar de fumar, de beure, a ficar-se al llit aviat i sobretot a no fer un cabells blancs a l'aire. Però la temptació apareix quan coneix una espaterrant veïna, tan sexy com ingènua.
In Vero Beach, Florida, a trio of couples at various points in their relationships become the subjects of a film about marriage being an antiquated idea that needs a reboot: Why not turn marriage into a seven-year deal with an option to renew?
El cirurgià Michael Hfuhruhurr (Steve Martin) és una eminència en neurologia, especialment després d'inventar un nou mètode quirúrgic per a operacions cerebrals. Quan un bon dia va al cotxe fent una entrevista, atropella accidentalment la viperina Dolores (Kathleen Turner), una atractiva dona ambiciosa i sense escrúpols que aprofita la conjuntura per casar-s'hi i intentar treure profit econòmic de l'assumpte. De viatge a Àustria i davant la infidelitat de la seva dona, Hfuhruhurr s'enamora d'un cervell propietat del Dr. Necessiter (David Warner).
An Englishman in France unwittingly is placed into the identity, and steps into the vacated life, of a look-alike French nobleman.
An educated, upscale young black musician marries a woman from a lower socioeconomic class to get her out of the clutches of her stepfather.
A rich man buys a husband for his dying daughter and she finds out.
Die Drei von der Tankstelle, meaning The Three from the Gas Station, was advertised as a German operetta when release and with it’s star studded cast would become the forerunner of Musical films. Even today the soundtrack of the comic harmonists is popular in Germany.
A married couple, suspecting one another of infidelity, decide to "live separately together."
When middle-aged Kata realises that her life will only be complete if she has a baby of her own, her longstanding-but-married boyfriend Joska refuses to comply. But by developing an unlikely friendship with the angst-ridden teenage orphan Anna, who is also involved in a controversial relationship, Kata discovers aspects of herself, and her role as a woman, that have gone unexamined throughout her entire, lonely life.