Fired from his band and hard up for cash, guitarist and vocalist Dewey Finn finagles his way into a job as a fifth-grade substitute teacher at a private school, where he secretly begins teaching his students the finer points of rock 'n' roll. The school's hard-nosed principal is rightly suspicious of Finn's activities. But Finn's roommate remains in the dark about what he's doing.
Incapable of intimacy and chronically depressed, a middle-aged man must come face to face with the person he feels is responsible for his troubled life.
With a nudge from a girlfriend, Alexa realizes she needs to be more open to the romantic cues around her. So while riding the subway, Alexa dives headfirst with surprising and amusing results.
On Whidbey Island, a grieving man is haunted by his memories and spirals closer to a breakdown two decades after the death of the woman he loved.
After the death of her husband, a woman acquires a machine that will bring him back to life. But the machine operates on blood and her husband's resurrections are lasting for shorter and shorter periods of time.
A lyrical snapshot and celebration of the manic, intoxicating diversity of New York. Four stories collide over one Friday night in Manhattan.
A smooth-talking ad executive attributes his remarkable success with women to his ability to manipulate their emotions from the moment he first meets them. When his teenage nephew drops in for a visit, he soon learns that his approach isn't as foolproof as he thought when he attempts to teach the boy how to pick up women.
As the closest-guarded secrets of a troubled family gradually begin to emerge from the shadows, a desperate mother struggles to bring the ones she loves together in this family drama starring Kate Nelligan and Ron Silver.