Fru Bennet har oppdratt sine fem døtre med ett formål – å finne seg en mann. Lizzie, den nest eldste jenta, kan tenke seg hundre grunner til ikke å gifte seg. En sommer flytter en velstående ungkar, med sofistikerte omgangsvenner, inn i et nærliggende herskapshus. Fru Bennet blir helt fra seg med tanke på alle de potensielle frierne til døtrene hennes. Det ser ut til at det blir som hun ønsker det, når nykommeren herr Charles Bingley med en gang blir betatt av eldstejenta, Jane. Når Lizzie møter den mørke, kjekke, og noe snobbete herr Darcy, virker de som det perfekte par, men stolthet og fordommer kommer imellom dem. Kan de legge dette bak seg, og finner Lizzie endelig en grunn til å gifte seg?
A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.
In a small Jewish community in a pre-Revolutionary Russian village, a poor milkman, determined to find good husbands for his five daughters, consults the traditional matchmaker – and also has words with God.
A wrongfully convicted boy is sent to a brutal desert detention camp where he must dig holes in order to build character. What he doesn't know is that he is digging holes in order to search for a lost treasure hidden somewhere in the camp.
Venice, 1596. Bassanio begs his friend Antonio, a prosperous merchant, to lend him a large sum of money so that he can woo Portia, a very wealthy heiress; but Antonio has invested his fortune abroad, so they turn to Shylock, a Jewish moneylender, and ask him for a loan.
Tenåringen Holly Hamilton er lei av å matte flytte hver gang et av forholdene til moren Jean bryter sammen. For å forhindre at moren gjør nok et håpløst valg, pønsker Holly ut den perfekte plan om den perfekte mann - en oppdiktet, hemmelig beundrer som kan gjøre kur til Jean og styrke hennes noe vaklende selvtillit. Etter hvert som det virtuelle forholdet tar av, blir imidlertid Holly nødt til å trylle frem mannen bak alle brevene og gavene, og låner venninnens sjarmerende og flotte onkel. Holly blir nødt til å ty til stadig mer desperate metoder for å dekke over narrespillet og beskytte morens nyfunne lykke. Men vil moren gå glipp av den perfekte mannen år han endelig dukker opp?
Italy, 16th century. Petruchio, a choleric, lying and poor rural landowner from Verona, arrives in Padua in search of fortune and a wife, while Baptista, a wealthy merchant, announces that he will not allow Bianca, his youngest daughter, to marry until the temperamental and unruly Katherina, his eldest daughter, does.
A recalcitrant thief vies with a duplicitous Mongol ruler for the hand of a beautiful princess.
Based on the true events of the only case in US History where a spirit caused the death of a man.
To stop Pinkie's widowed, struggling mother Dottie from marrying a well-off older man they know she doesn't love, teenager Pinkie and her best friend Buzz kidnap her in the family travel trailer to live a carefree life on the open road. They then get the idea to find Dottie a financially secure husband whom both she and Pinkie would like.
In a time in the Philippines when the concept of divorce does not exist, a young woman has an affair with a married man. Eventually, they move in together, and that is when the problems start.
A beautiful but vain woman who rejects the love of her older husband must face the loss of her youth and beauty.
The Professor will not allow his daughter to marry a non-musician, but Billy, her would-be suitor, cannot play a single note. When he is about to give up, Billy’s roommate suggests bluffing his way into the Professor’s favor with the aid of a suitably musical disguise and a well-hidden phonograph player.
College town life gets turned upside down after a button-down botany professor secretly weds a sizzling night-club singer.
The Winfield family moves into a new house in a small town in Indiana. Tomboy Marjorie Winfield begins a romance with William Sherman who lives across the street. Marjorie has to learn how to dance and act like a proper young lady. Unfortunately William Sherman has unconventional ideas for the time. His ideas include not believing in marriage or money, which causes friction with Marjorie's father, who is the local bank vice president
Mirian Wilkins, the teenage daughter of Senator Wilkins, starts a Society for the Rehabilitation of Criminals and, without the approval or knowledge of her father, elects him to the position of honorary president. When the family's new gardener, Baxter, turns out to be a notorious ex-convict who was sentenced to prison by Senator Wilkins when he was a judge, Wilkins considers firing him until his daughter points out that would be an unwise decision considering the position her father held on society.
An aging Southern belle's preoccupation with her past and her dreams for her children's futures threaten to smother her painfully shy daughter and her aspiring writer son.
A stewardess becomes romantically involved with an airline pilot, a college professor, and a successful businessman...all of whom are named Mike. When the three find out about each other, she has to decide which one she loves the most.
A play by Victoria Wood. Frances is 28, single and happy, despite ritual interrogation from her family as to why she's not married. Then she meets Jim, and finds she has decisions to make.
Prizefighter Jimmy Nolan, facing an opportunity to get a championship fight, is knocked out when he sustains what is apparently a permanent injury to his arm. From there, Nolan's path leads downhill. He is drawn into a romance with a nightclub entertainer, then is framed on a theft charge by a jealous suitor. After his prison term, Nolan makes a spectacular comeback in a fight which proves his courage and integrity, while disproving the fallacy about the old sports adage that "they never come back."