Apesar de Christine “Lady Bird” McPherson lutar contra isso, é exatamente igual à sua extremamente apaixonada, profundamente opinativa e muito teimosa mãe, que trabalha incansavelmente como enfermeira para sustentar a sua família depois do pai ter perdido o emprego. Uma história passada em Sacramento, Califórnia, em 2002, no meio de um cenário de rápida mudança da economia americana.
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.
J.C. Wiatt is a talented and ambitious New York City career woman who is married to her job and working towards partner at her firm. She has a live-in relationship with Steven, a successful investment broker who, along with J.C., agreed children aren't part of the plan. J.C.'s life takes an unexpected turn when a distant relative dies and the will appoints her the caretaker of their baby girl, Elizabeth. The baby's sudden arrival causes Steven to leave, breaking off their relationship. Juggling power lunches and powdered formula, she is soon forced off the fast track by a conniving colleague and a bigoted boss. But she won't stay down for long. She'll prove to the world that a woman can have it all and on her own terms too!
Gloria (Anne Hathaway) deixa Nova York e volta para sua cidade natal após perder o emprego e o noivo. Ao acompanhar as notícias sobre o ataque de um lagarto gigante a Tóquio, ela descobre que está misteriosamente conectada mentalmente ao evento. Para evitar novos casos parecidos e uma eventual destruição total do planeta, Gloria precisa controlar os poderes de sua mente e entender por que sua existência aparentemente insignificante tem tamanha responsabilidade no destino do mundo.
Até ser despedido, o afável Larry Crowne (Tom Hanks) liderava uma equipa de vendas num grande armazém de revenda, onde trabalhava desde o seu tempo na Marinha. Debaixo de água com a hipoteca, e sem saber o que fazer com tanto tempo livre, Larry vai para a faculdade para começar de novo. Na faculdade torna-se membro de uma colorida comunidade de pessoas que vive um pouco à margem procurando um futuro diferente e melhor... Grupo este que, a maioria das vezes, se desloca pela cidade em scooters. Entretanto, na sua aula de discurso para audiências, Larry desenvolve um inesperado ‘fraquinho’ pela professora, Mercedes Tainot (Julia Roberts), a qual perdeu a paixão tanto pelo ensino, como pelo marido. O homem simples, que tem todos os motivos para pensar que a sua vida estagnou, vai deparar-se com uma lição inesperada: quando pensamos que tudo o que vale a pena nos passou ao lado, podemos ter descoberto a nossa verdadeira razão de viver.
Os anos de trabalho duro de Dick Harper (Carrey) são finalmente compensados quando ele é promovido a vice-presidente da Globodyne. Mas depois de exactamente um dia no seu trabalho novo, a Globodyne é destruída por uma calamidade tipo Enron. Depois de observar as regras do jogo e trabalhar para construir uma vida confortável para a sua família, Dick não está preparado para desistir do sonho americano. No entanto, depois de receber uma lição do ex-patrão, Dick tem uma ideia brilhante: se roubar serviu para o patrão, então também serve para ele.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Um trio de amigos de infância planejam um esquema para encontrar uma esposa para seu socialmente inadequado amigo Barry (Tyler Labine), mas o plano dá errado quando sua nova namorada Melanie (Lucy Punch) acaba sendo igual a ele.
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.
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.
Singapura, 1997. A rotina da família Lim é modificada com a chegada de Terry, empregada doméstica que foi para a cidade sonhando com uma vida melhor. Encarregada de cuidar do filho do casal, ela desenvolve uma relação íntima com o menino.
A documentary that follows the former Tonight Show host. Filmed during Conan’s ”Legally Prohibited From Being Funny on Television” comedy tour, after his departure from the Tonight Show, taking viewers on an intimate journey of O’Brien’s life.
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.
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.
Libor, a former teacher, enjoys a well-paid position as a bank manager, living in a luxurious villa outside Prague. His business partners are taken into custody and the authorities have a few questions for him to answer. Rather than wait around, he decides to take off to Moravia with his wife and two children. In the process, he pretends that everything is normal, rediscovers the value of family life, meets up with a former colleague lost in provincial obscurity, and becomes the object of a manhunt. Libor is not a criminal type, merely someone who signs cheques and is drawn into a business world failing to recognise its own criminality (he doesn’t even flee the country).
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.