En route to disperse his mother’s ashes in the Atlantic Ocean, a mentally unstable Carl finds himself alone in a hotel room struggling with his internal demons. His plan is detoured when he meets a streetwalker down on her luck and needing an out. Carl makes an offer that is difficult to ignore. Their encounter sets them on a path that would change their lives forever.
ARRANGED centers on the friendship between an Orthodox Jewish woman and a Muslim woman who meet as first-year teachers at a public school in Brooklyn. Over the course of the year they learn they share much in common – not least of which is that they are both going through the process of arranged marriages.
For 16 years Miss Bentley has been spending April at an elegant hillside villa on Lake Como. This year, 1937, her London society artist father has recently died and the only other English-speaking guests are brash Americans. Then Major Wilshaw arrives. He suggests they meet for cocktails and Miss Bentley stands him up — not even thinking about it — as she helps the new nanny of an Italian family settle in. Miss Beaumont, a tall, young American who has dropped out of finishing school in Switzerland, is bored and finds some amusement in flirting with the major, whose libido is awakened for the first time since before the great war. And Miss Bentley now finds more about the major to admire than his ears.
Mr. Magoo is an eccentric millionaire with terrible eyesight who refuses to use eyeglasses, therefore he always gets into trouble. During a museum robbery he accidentally gets a priceless gem called the Star of Kurdistan and starts to trace the way for the arch-criminals–Austin Cloquet and Ortega “The Piranha” Peru– who had wanted to steal it. Meanwhile, two federal agents, Stupak and Anders, lead the manhunt for Mr. Magoo himself.
When a money mule has a fatal heart attack at a Nevada brothel, the contents of the money vest is hidden by Irene. Her regular customer Johnny is her best bet to be able to retire early.
Bart Corbin’s wife Jenn dies in their home, apparently suicide, as the police believes. While he moves in with young sons Taylor and Trevor at brother Bobby’s, her sister Heather starts a relentless campaign, without any clue, to make the police believe Bart must have murdered her and have an affair with practice secretary Dara. However PC data show Jenn was the one who has an Internet affair with a Chris, who turned out to be a lesbian’s alias.
It’s Christmas Eve in Los Angeles, and hardworking Gabby, her husband and their two kids, Amber and TJ, are fresh from Mississippi to spend Christmas with her mother and brother. With her mother dying, the family wanted to spend one last Christmas together. Over the course of two days, Gabby uncovers the truth about her wayward husband, defends herself against her sick, judgmental mom, widens the gap between her pre-teen daughter and herself, and faces a potential job loss.
When emotionally isolated barista Dan Duncombe starts receiving strange messages on the inside of his bedroom window, he is forced to become involved with the lives of the people around him … and by changing their lives, he changes his own.
When a nine year old girl writes a letter to Santa Claus asking for a mommy, a television station news director gets wind of it and assigns a hard-bitten reporter to get the story. With the help of a male nanny, the reporter learns learns that at Christmas, wishes can still be granted.
The world of a young housewife is turned upside down when she has an affair with a free-spirited blouse salesman.
Kevin and Perry are two 15-year-old boys whose desperation to lose their virginity is so great that it inspires a sort of awe.
