Den viljestærke teenagepige Christine "Lady Bird" McPherson er ved at blive voksen, med alt, hvad der deraf følger af op- og nedture. Lady Bird drømmer om at forlade sin kedelige hjemby og blive optaget på universitetet i New York, alt imens hun forsøger at manøvrere i sit forhold til sin mindst lige så kamplystne mor. 'Lady Bird' er 'Barbie'-instruktøren Greta Gerwig's Oscarnominerede gennembrudsfilm.
Dexter Reed is down on his luck after another one of his inventions fails. Ed welcomes Dex back to Good Burger with open arms and gives him his old job back. With a new crew working at Good Burger, Dex devises a plan to get back on his feet but unfortunately puts the fate of Good Burger at risk once again.
Larry er ikke typen, der triller tommelfingre, men alligevel mister han sit job. Det skulle nødig ske igen, så Larry beslutter sig for at videreuddanne sig. På universitetet er Larry en hel del ældre end de andre studerende, men snart har han fået nye venner, og så brænder han tilmed varm på en af lærerne.
Alting kører bare for Dick og Jane, lige indtil den dag Dick mister sin stilling. Det sker, kort tid efter at han er blevet forfremmet, og hans kone, Jane, har sagt sit job op. Ergo har de ingen penge, og huset ryger på tvangsauktion. For at komme ovenpå igen indleder Dick, med sin smukke hustru ved sin side, en kriminel løbebane, der er såvel kaotisk som hylende morsom. Sammen beslutter de sig for at få hævn over Dick's tidligere chef, Jack McCallister, som er direkte skyld i, at de er kommet i fedtefadet.
Gloria er arbejdsløs, og da hun bliver sparket ud af sin lejlighed, må hun forlade det søde liv i New York og rejse tilbage til sin hjemby. Da der begynder at florere nyheder om, at et enormt væsen smadrer Seoul, går det langsomt op for Gloria, at hun på en eller anden måde har en forbindelse til det mystiske fænomen. Men hvorfor har hendes tilsyneladende ubetydelige eksistens så kolossal en indvirkning på verdens skæbne?
J.C. Wiatt tror hun har styr på sin tilværelse; hun er smuk, begavet og har det kølige overblik, der med sikkerhed vil lede hende til succes i erhvervslivets absolutte top. Altså lige til en spæd, yndig lille pige finder vej til hendes liv. Nu starter et desperat forsøg på at opretholde balancen mellem powerfrokoster og pudderkvaster, mens misundelige kollegaer og magtsyge chefer med det samme udnytter situationen til deres egen fordel. Men de har gjort regning uden mor, for her er en kvinde, der ikke kan holdes nede ret lang tid ad gangen. Og hun vil vise verden, at kvinder kan både nå - og få - det hele; og helt efter egne ønsker!
A documentary that follows the former Tonight Show. Filmed during Conan’s ”Legally Prohibited From Being Funny on Television” comedy tour, after his departure from the Tonight Show, takes viewers into an intimate journey of O’Brien’s life.
A morality tale of xenophobia, religious prejudice, mob violence, poverty, and their effect on two children in Liverpool during the Depression. When a shipyard closes, Liam and Teresa's dad loses his job. Liam, who's about 8, making his first Holy Communion, gets a regular dose of fire and brimstone at church. Teresa, about 13, has a job as a maid to the Jewish family that owns the closed shipyard. The lady of that house is having an affair, and Teresa becomes an accomplice. Liam stutters terribly, especially when troubled. Dad comes under the sway of the Fascists, who blame cheap Irish labor and Jewish owners. A Molotov cocktail brings things to a head.
A single mother living in inner city Chicago, Brenda has been struggling for years to make ends meet and keep her three kids off the street. When she's laid off with no warning, she starts losing hope for the first time - until a letter arrives announcing the death of a father she's never met. Desperate for any kind of help, Brenda takes her family to Georgia for the funeral, but nothing could have prepared her for the Browns, her father's fun-loving, crass Southern clan. In a small-town world full of long afternoons and country fairs, Brenda struggles to get to know the family she never knew existed...and finds a brand new romance that just might change her life.
A trio of friends scheme to find a wife for their socially inappropriate friend Barry, and end up finding a girl just like him.
Eddie is a principled man, with a wife, a daughter and a mortgage and leads a seemingly stable and happy life as a government land assessor. Yet when the forces of economic and social change threaten this, he realises just how fragile his reality and security is. After losing his job, he checks his bank balance and finds he has only 'three dollars' to his name.
During the late 1990s, a busy working-class Singaporean couple hires a Filipino woman as a maid and nanny to their young son.
Four swimmers - water polo players find themselves at the bottom of their existence after losing a match. So desperate that they even find themselves living at the bottom of their emptied pool. To save their "dignity" they start a questionable business "Husband to rent" fixing home items for local housewives. But as time will show the household items are not the only things they end up repairing.
An introverted office drone tries to navigate through corporate America, and one tragic day he meets his match. He then realizes he needs to play the capitalistic game in order to survive. His pain and confusion is your laughter.
Claire's number one priority is her family. When her husband Dennis loses his stockbroker job, the couple's traditional family roles switch. As Dennis takes on his new stay-at-home role, Claire's furniture design business takes off. Just as she's beginning to master the art of balancing her home and work life, Dennis serves her with divorce papers and charges her with being an unfit mother. Claire discovers that in a modern courtroom there are still traditional biases unsympathetic to the idea of a woman working three jobs, as a wife, an entrepreneur and a mother.
A young man called Andrew is forced to endure a bitter encounter with a man known as the Cameraman, who enjoys filming beatings, murders and rapes in an abandoned underpass.
With the death of her long-time director, Chan-sil, a film producer, is now unemployed. While working as a cleaning lady at an actress' house, she meets a young man. Attracted to him, Chan-sil realises old anxieties are about to emerge: her already gone-youth, messed-up love life, and broken career.
An attorney stumbles upon a suitcase filled with cocaine.
Remy is a medical student who has a flair for making his patients comfortable. His genuine concern for the patients in his charge marks him as a hot prospect in his internship program. Pamela works at a children's book publishing company. The two meet via Pamela's brother, who is also Remy's good friend. They fall in love and get an apartment in the East Village of New York. Soon after, the couple begins to indulge in speed and barbiturates. They become heavily addicted. Remy is thrown out of medical school and Pamela quits her job. Remy soon finds himself in debt with the local dealer, Stutter, who introduces his customer to heroin as a revenge for his late bill. Pamela faces the prospect of getting sober at her brother's clinic, but must leave behind a destitute Remy in order to do it.
Atsuko and Akira are a husband and wife duo with a daughter and a son. Atsuko is in charge of the retirement finances. She saves from money given to her by her husband and also earns money herself by working part-time. She stretches every yen by leading a frugal life. yet, expenses come up. These include their daughter's upcoming wedding and the funeral expenses of the husband's father. Then, and at exactly the worst time, the couple finds itself unemployed.