Lou Jacobi

7 ayrı skeçten oluşan bu fantastik film, her bölümünde farklı farklı yerlere göndermeler yapar. Filmde 1960'lı yılların sinemasında sıkça ele alınan cinsellik merakı ile dalga geçilmektedir. Filmi oluşturan kısa bölümlerin isimlerine bakılınca zaten filmin yapısı hakkında bir fikir edinilecektir.

Centered on a television station which features a 1950s-style sci-fi movie interspersed with a series of wild commercials, wacky shorts and weird specials, this lampoon of contemporary life and pop culture skewers some of the silliest spectacles ever created in the name of entertainment.

Filmde Irma adında bir sokak yosması hem boşvermiş hem de sokaktaki satıcısından çeken bir kadındır. Sokaktaki kadınlar çalışırken satıcıları para kazanmakta ve meşhur barda harcamaktadır. Bir gün Fahişelerin çalıştığı sokağa atanan Fransız polis memuru Nestor, sokakta süren ticareti fark edip, baskın yapar. Polisle kadın tüccarları arasındaki anlaşmaya sekte vurunca da işinden olur...Sokağa düşen Nestor, İrma'ya aşık olmuştur. Onun diğer erkeklerle görüşmesini kıskanmakta ve bir çözüm aramaktadır...

Dedektifler "Mezarcı" Jones (Godfrey Cambridge) ve "Tabut Ed" Johnson (Raymond St. Jacques) daha çok para kazanmak için "Afrika'ya Dönüş" kampanyası adlı koca bir dümen düzenleyen siyahi Rahip Deke O'Malley (Calvin Lockhart) vakasını enine boyuna araştırmaktadır. Fakat O'Malley'nin aklanan parasının 87.000 doları bir pamuk balyasına gizlenince, Mezarcı ve Tabut, birden yükselen pamuk fiyatlarıyla ilgilenmeye başlayan tek kişiler olmadıklarını fark ederler! Balyayı bulmak için Harlem'in altını üstüne getiren iki dedektif, 87.000 doları ele geçirmek ve önlerine çıkan herkesi saf dışı bırakmak için mafyayla, polisle, siyahi militanlarla ve daha birçoklarıyla kıran kırana bir mücadeleye girer!

1944'de Nazi işgalindeki Amsterdam'da Yahudiler toplanıp, kamplara gönderilmekte, kamplarda yok edilmektedir. Bir grup Yahudi bir evin çatı katında saklanır, hiç dışarı çıkmazlar. 2 yıllık bu zorunlu oda hapsinde açlıkla boğuşurken zaman zaman aralarında tartışmalar da çıkar. Anna Frank adlı genç kız, bu odada olanları bir günlüğe kaydeder. Savaşın sonlarına doğru müttefikler Normandiya'ya çıkarma yaparken, bu odadaki insanların sonu ne olacaktır? Naziler onları da mı götürecektir?.

Aile parasını harcamak ve içmekten başka bir şey yapmayan Arthur, ailesinin evlenmesi için direttiği ama sevmediği kadın yerine, beş parasız bir genç kadına evlenme teklif eder...

Oto tamircisi Edward (Tim Robbins) güzel ve çok zeki bir genç kadın olan Catherine'e (Meg Ryan) ilk görüşte aşık olmuştur. Ancak Catherine deyim yerindeyse inek sayılabilecek kadar akademik çalışmalara gömülmüş James ile nişanlıdır. Catherine'nin amcası Albert Einstein (Walter Matthau), Ed'in dürüst ve kararlı tarzını görmüş ve bu delikanlıdan hoşlanmıştır. Arkadaşlarıyla birlikte Catherine'i Ed'e aşık etmek için karmaşık planlar yaparlar ve Ed'i olduğundan zeki ve bilgili göstermeye çalışırlarken film bir kahkaha bombasına dönüşecektir.

A Polish-Jewish family comes to the U.S. at the beginning of the twentieth century. There, the family and their children try to make themselves a better future in the so-called promised land.

Flash used to be a talented baseball player, but he took to drinking and now he sells stolen watches in the streets. One day he meets Chu Chu, who, before falling into alcoholism like him, was a successful entertainer. Now she still dances, but in the streets, for no more than a cent or two. Luck seems to smile at them the day stolen government documents literally fall from the sky. They decide to return them to their legal owners, but instead of the expected reward money, all they get is a load of trouble.

An aspiring Jewish actor moves out of his parents' Brooklyn apartment to seek his fortune in the bohemian life of Greenwich Village in 1953.

Fledgling comic Benjy Stone can't believe his luck when his childhood hero, the swashbuckling matinee idol Alan Swann, gets booked to appear on the variety show he writes for. But when Swann arrives, he fails to live up to his silver screen image. Instead, he's a drunken womanizer who suffers from stage fright. Benjy is assigned to look after him before the show, and it's all he can do to keep his former idol from going completely off the rails.

A young nihilistic New Yorker copes with pervasive urban violence, obscene phone calls, rusty water pipes, electrical blackouts, paranoia, and ethnic-racial conflict during a typical summer of the 1970s.

When Penelope gets married to banker James Elcott, she finds him too preoccupied with work to pay much attention to her, so she robs his bank in disguise. After she confesses to her psychiatrist, Greg Mannix, he offers to return the money for her, as he is secretly in love with her. However, he abandons the money when the police approach. Penelope becomes determined to admit to the crime, but neither James nor the police believe her story.

Daniel Stern stars as a stockbroker trying to climb the corporate ladder. There's only one thing stopping him...his boss' beautiful and flirtatious wife! THE BOSS' WIFE is a full-bodied, high-spirited, bedroom comedy about lust, love and lechery.

Joe is a young boy who lives with his mother, Joanna, in working-class London. The two reside above the tailor shop of Mr. Kandinsky, who likes to tell Joe stories. When Kandinsky informs Joe that a unicorn can grant wishes, the hopeful lad ends up buying a baby goat with one tiny horn, believing it to be a real unicorn. Undaunted by his rough surroundings, Joe sets about to prove that wishes can come true.

Harry Landers is a feisty senior citizen who refuses to abide by the rules in a stodgy retirement home run by a dour Ms. Davis, in which Harry leads a revolt by the other goated senior citizen residents against the establishment.

"Everybody Rides the Carousel" invites the viewer along on eight "rides" through the different stages of life. Based on the work by Erik Erikson, one of the most influential psychoanalytic theorists of this century, the film explores the inner feelings and conflicted emotions experienced during each stage of personality development. With distinctive and poetic animation, John and Faith Hubley visualize the conflicts, joys, problems and delights we all experience on the carousel of life.

An airline stewardess juggles a life that includes a husband in Los Angeles and another one in London.

David Brinkley hosts this shattering two-hour documentary about the trial of the man whose role in deporting the Jews of Europe for extermination made him the target of a 15-year manhunt by Israeli agents. Rare videotapes of the trial, exclusive interviews with courtroom witnesses, prosecutors, and others recount the emotionally explosive proceedings.

Marty and Steve, American tourists in France, are given a multipurpose umbrella and pitted against an international band of art thieves. Among the stolen treasures is the Statue Of Liberty.

A retired lady judge runs a private detective agency with a charming ex-con as her leg man and various parolees helping in the day-to-day operation.

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