Vicky and Cristina are dining in a restaurant when they are approached by handsome Juan Anotonio. He invites them to Oviedo for a weekend of food, wine and lovemaking. Vicky is appalled by the proposal, but Cristina is captivated. […]
Era: Modern Day
Pulp Fiction
Butch and Fabian plan to get some breakfast before leaving town. Their plan is botched when Butch realizes Fabienne has left his father’s watch back at the apartment where “the gangsters will be looking for him”. He explodes on her, but then recovers and promises to be back very soon. […]
Waiting to Exhale
Bernadine’s marriage of eleven years has broken up. She had devoted herself to her husband’s success and to her children, and they had made it. Then her husband announced that he was leaving her for a white woman. She was devastated, so hurt and furious that she set fire to his clothes and car on […]
Truly, Madly, Deeply
Nina and Jamie were married and passionately in love when Jamie died. Jamie was a cellist with a deep and dramatic personality, Nina less dramatic – she works a regular job, but has great friends who care about her. Her life was shattered when Jamie died, and although she’s moved to a new apartment, she […]
The Player
Griffin is the quintessential, shark-like Hollywood producer. Things are going well for him and it looks like he may be in line for an even higher position at the studio, until he start getting threatening postcards and faxes from a disgruntled writer whom he had once blown off. He thinks the writer is David Kahane, […]
Strictly Ballroom
Scott Kendall is an exceptional young ballroom dancer in Australia. His parents were ballroom dancers before him, and they now own a ballroom dance studio. Fran is a beginning dancer. Scott has recently lost his dance partner, Liz. She left him at the last competition, after Scott started dancing his own non-federation steps. Scott wants […]
Short Cuts
Doreen and Earl are an unhappy, blue collar couple in their forties. They live in a small trailer-type house in a bad section of Los Angeles. Doreen works at a diner as a waitress. Earl works a string of dead-end jobs, his current one being a limo driver. She’s just had a close brush with […]
Short Cuts
Ralph and Marian are married. He is a doctor, she is a painter; they have a “nice” life in a comfortable home in Los Angeles, but their relationship is distant and lacks intimacy and compassion. They’re expecting guests for dinner, people they barely know. Yesterday, Ralph walked in on Marian painting her sister Sherri nude […]
Sex, Lies, and Videotape
Cynthia has been having an affair with her sister’s husband, John. When John’s old friend Graham shows up in town, not only is John’s wife Ann drawn to him, but so is Cynthia. She even goes to his house and makes an “interview” tape on which she masturbates. Ann is appalled, and so is John, […]
Sea of Love
Frank and Denice work at the same police precinct. They are divorced, and Denice has remarried Frank’s partner, Gruber. Frank drinks too much and lately has been going through a bad time; he’s been calling Denice at home at all hours, drunk. Denice has moved on, but Frank is stuck in his lonely life. Here […]