Sonita a 18 ans et vient d'Afghanistan. Elle vit comme une migrante illégale en Iran où elle n'a aucun droits, pas d'éducation officielle et est sans papiers. Ses parents veulent la marier de force en Afghanistan à un inconnu dont la dot, de 9 000 $, servira à financer le mariage de son frère. Mais Sonita a du talent. Première rappeuse afghane, elle raconte son histoire et son refus de ce mariage arrangé et sa volonté d'échapper au projet de sa famille.
Cinq amis d'enfance se lancent chaque année à la même époque dans une féroce compétition de... chat perché ! Le but du jeu est de toucher leurs concurrents en criant « Chat, c'est toi qui y est ! ». Pour cette tradition, ils sont prêts à mettre en jeu leur travail, leur entourage et leur propre vie. Et pour cette nouvelle édition, il ne reste qu'un seul joueur invaincu et celui-ci se marie. Les quatre autres vont tout tenter pour le battre.
Steve and Frances Howard are a middle-aged, married and childless couple who reside in a sparsely decorated home in Manchester, England. He is an executive in a store that sells appliances.
Pour Amélie, 20 ans, le retour au Japon natal coïncide avec la rencontre de Rinri, jeune étudiant japonais qui va devenir son amant. La culture japonaise va aider Amélie à se découvrir et à se transformer...
Singing-and-dancing stage star Julie (Betty Grable) is told that husband Marty (Jack Lemmon) is reported missing in action during Korea. After a long waiting period, she makes plans to marry Vernon (Gower Champion), who is Marty's best friend. After the marriage, Marty (who crashed but survived on an island) turns up at one of Julie's shows. Upon discovering Julie's new marriage, Marty demands his rights as her first husband.
Jérémie, un jeune homosexuel de 34 ans, va se marier avec Antoine. Cependant, un matin il se réveille dans le lit d'une jeune Suédoise, Adna, dont il tombe rapidement amoureux.
After opening with a brief, seemingly irrelevant scene of a suitcase on an airport carousel, the story quickly focuses on a Paris divorce court where Karol Karol (Zbigniew Zamachowski) is pleading with the judge — the same legal proceedings that Juliette Binoche's character briefly stumbled upon in Blue. The immigrant Karol, despite his difficulty in understanding French, is made to understand that his wife Dominique (Julie Delpy) does not love him. The grounds for divorce are humiliating: Karol was unable to consummate the marriage. Along with his wife, he loses his means of support (a beauty salon they jointly owned), his legal residency in France, and the rest of his cash in a series of mishaps, and is soon a beggar. He only retains a 2 franc coin.
Jack and Audrey Landry are a middle-aged couple with three daughters: Nora, Teri, and Dahlia (also known as Dolly). The eldest, Nora, is a supermodel based in Italy, who rarely comes home. Terry, the second daughter, is an independent business woman who lives with her boyfriend Bryan. Dahlia, the youngest, lives at home with her parents still, and changes her "look" often. In addition to the happy family, Nora's ex-boyfriend Sam works for Jack and is very close with the family as well.
Vicky Lowndes (Jean Arthur) loses her first husband, Bill Cardew (Fred MacMurray), in a boating accident in which he is presumed drowned. The lonely widow is comforted by Bill's best friend and publishing business partner Henry Lowndes (Melvyn Douglas). Six months later, she marries him. Six months after that, Bill shows up, after having been stranded on a uninhabited island and then rescued. Vicky has a tough choice to make. Hilarity ensues.
Jean Harrington (Barbara Stanwyck) is a beautiful con artist. Along with her equally larcenous father, "Colonel" Harrington (Charles Coburn) and his partner Gerald (Melville Cooper), she is out to fleece rich, naive Charles Pike (Henry Fonda), the heir to the Pike Ale fortune ("The Ale That Won for Yale"). Pike is a woman-shy snake expert just returning from a year-long expedition up the Amazon. Though surrounded by ladies desperate for his attention, Charles is putty in Jean's hands.
Don and Ellie Griffin were a New England couple married for twenty years before they divorced. They have three children from their marriage – Lyla, Jared, and adopted son Alejandro, who was from Colombia.