A satire of network television, the movie follows the adventures of an ambitious mailroom clerk, Steven Post (Russell) at the fictional UBC Network who discovers his girlfriend Jennifer Scott's (Heather North) pet chimpanzee has the supernatural ability to predict which television programs will receive the highest ratings, in which he blows a raspberry to shows that will bomb, or claps his hands in applause to shows that will be hits.
De grands airs d'opéra vus par dix réalisateurs sur des musiques de Charpentier, Korngold, Leoncavallo, Lully, Puccini, Rameau, Verdi, Wagner. L'image est parfois sans rapport avec le thème de l'opéra, d'autres fois plus proche.
En 1940, dès le début de l'occupation allemande en Belgique, le journal Le Soir cesse de paraître. Il est rapidement repris par des journalistes complaisants à l'égard de l'Occupant. En novembre 1943, un groupe de résistants bruxellois décide de publier un faux numéro du journal, dont les articles tourneront en dérision les Allemands. L'opération est méticuleusement préparée afin de substituer ce faux numéro au journal habituellement distribué en journée.
Donald est garde forestier dans un parc national. L'hiver étant arrivé, celui-ci ferme le parc aux visiteurs et les ours vont hiberner. Mais l'un d'eux, dans la précipitation, se retrouve exclu de leur abri hivernal…
Quelques jours avant Noël, le mari de Martha la quitte pour une jeune femme qui va vider leur compte en banque. Mise à la rue avec ses deux fillettes et son fils, Martha cherche un travail et un endroit où dormir. Elle est engagée par Trudy, adorable veuve et gérante d’un pub. Elle s’attire vite les sympathies de toute la clientèle et rencontre Joe Hopkins, Shérif de la ville, aussi célibataire que charmant...
Sophie, mariée et mère de trois jeunes enfants, est débordée par ses activités professionnelles et personnelles. Alors qu'elle emmène ses enfants, à la veille de Noël, voir le Père Noël dans un centre commercial, elle éprouve le besoin de se retrouver. Elle souhaiterait changer de vie et dit au vieil homme à barbe blanche qu'elle envie une de ses anciennes rivales scolaires qui, bien que toujours célibataire, a particulièrement bien réussi professionnellement. Le Père Noël exauce la jeune femme, qui se retrouve dans un monde où toutes les situations sont inversées...
Alim is a young gay man. Born in Kenya and raised in Toronto, he moved to London to get away from his conservative upbringing. He faces the hardships of coming out to his widowed mother Nuru, as well as hardships in his relationship with his boyfriend Giles. Alim has an imaginary friend (or maybe a guardian angel or ghost friend, depending on how literally or symbolically one takes the film) who is supposedly Cary Grant, who gives Alim advice when Alim is in trouble. Unfortunately, the advice often seems to make more trouble.
Cathy Timberlake, a New York City career woman, meets Philip Shayne. His Rolls Royce splashes her dress with mud while she is on her way to a job interview.
The film begins in Florence, Italy in 1935, where a group of cultured expatriate English women — called by the Italians "the Scorpioni" — meet for tea every afternoon. Young Luca (Charlie Lucas) is the illegitimate son of an Italian businessman (Massimo Ghini) who shows little interest in his son's upbringing; the boy's mother, a dressmaker, has recently died. Mary Wallace (Joan Plowright), who works as the man's secretary, steps in to care for him, turning to her Scorpioni friends – including eccentric would-be artist Arabella (Judi Dench) – for support. Together, they teach Luca many lessons about life and especially the arts. Elsa Morganthal (Cher), a brash rich young American widow whom Scorpioni matron Lady Hester Random (Maggie Smith) barely tolerates, sets up a financial trust for Luca when she learns of the death of his mother, whom she was fond of and to whom Elsa still owed money for her dressmaking services.
Neal Page is trying to return to his family for Thanksgiving in Chicago after being on a business trip in New York City, but is held up by an advertising executive who spends the entirety of the meeting looking at the three pictures to choose to launch their ad. On their way out, he tries to find a cab and successfully hails one, but is beaten to the punch by another man (Kevin Bacon in a cameo appearance). Del Griffith, a traveling salesman, interferes by leaving his trunk by the side of the road causing Neal to trip while racing a man for a cab, then inadvertently snatching the taxi ride that Neal bought from an attorney. The two meet again on the flight from JFK Airport to O'Hare; the plane is diverted to Wichita due to a blizzard in Chicago. What should have been a 1-hour and 45-minute New York-to-Chicago flight turns into a three-day ordeal, in which everything that can go wrong does.
2005 : to convince French people on the interest of space research and its budget, a contest is organised : a scrach game with millions of scratchcards, where the two winners will receive their ticket for space. They must leave for the French orbital station (which only exists for the film and does not exist in reality) with two professional astronauts and a scientist. The adventure will not happen like expected. One of the contestants, who has cheated to obtain the ticket, appears to be once in space, a dangerous madman seeking for revenge.