După ce și-a pierdut un rol de actor și iubita, Jake Scully ia în sfârșit o pauză: i se oferă un concert la Hollywood Hills. În timp ce se uită prin telescopul frumosului cămin într-o noapte, el observă o femeie superbă care dansează la fereastra ei. Dar când este martor la uciderea fetei, aceasta îl conduce pe Scully în lumea de jos a industriei divertismentului pentru adulți în căutarea unor răspunsuri, având drept ghid pe actrița porno Holly Body.
În anul 1969, o nouă lume se întrevede pe platourile de filmare de la Hollywood, iar noua realitate îi cam prinde pe picior greșit pe vedeta TV Rick Dalton și dublura care îi interpretează cascadoriile, Cliff Booth. În timp ce aceştia se străduiesc să se afirme în noul context, actrița Sharon Tate, vecina lui Dalton, este implicată într-o poveste suspectă, legată de crimele odioase ale clanului Charles Mason.
A family of Irish immigrants adjusts to life on the mean streets of Hell's Kitchen while also grieving the death of a child.
Nicolas Cage îl interpretează pe Nick Cage, un actor trecut de prima tinereţe care nu mai reuşeşte să obţină roluri noi. Disperat, acceptă oferta de a-şi face apariţia la o petrecere a unui fan bogat din Europa contra sumei de un milion de dolari. Însă acel admirator se dovedeşte a fi un răufăcător, iar Cage este recrutat de doi agenţi CIA pentru a-l anihila. Sarcina se complică după ce Cage şi ţinta lui îşi dau seama că au o pasiune comună.
Michael, a struggling actor, dies right after a bad breakup. He finds himself awakening in a very bright room with a very strange lady and learns that he is in singles Purgatory, where he must find his soul mate in order to cross over to the other side. With limited time to find true love among other recently deceased single New Yorkers, Michael must navigate the new customs of a ghostly dating life... as if dating in life wasn't hard enough already.
Aidan Bloom, a struggling actor, father and husband, is 35 years old and still trying to find a purpose for his life. He and his wife are barely getting by financially and Aidan passes his time by fantasizing about being the great futuristic Space-Knight he'd always dreamed he'd be as a little kid. When his ailing father can no longer afford to pay for private school for his two kids and the only available public school is on its last legs, Aidan reluctantly agrees to attempt to home-school them. Through teaching them about life his way, Aidan gradually discovers some of the parts of himself he couldn't find.
Charlotte, o actriță aspirantă, primește un rol de vis în „Colind de Crăciun” și se îndrăgostește de regizor. Va fi însă spectacolul gata în ziua premierei?
An aspiring Jewish actor moves out of his parents' Brooklyn apartment to seek his fortune in the bohemian life of Greenwich Village in 1953.
In his early days as an actor, Marlon Brando (1924-2004) was a shy young man with theatrical ambitions, like many others; but his charisma and superb acting skills made him truly unique, so that the doors to the starry sky of Hollywood opened for him. However, his peculiar manners, political commitment and complicated love life always overshadowed his artistic success.
Aspiring actress Louise Muban attends the prestigious Paris School of Drama during the day and works at a dreary factory assembling gas meters at night. She daydreams and "acts" her way through life, and her fellow students at school begin to suspect her stories are just that - fabrications. After Louise begins to weave an actual meeting with a debonair playboy into a fantasy of club dates and romance, her classmate Nana discovers the lie when she too meets the playboy. Nana sets a trap for Louise, and the result is an end to one fantasy and the realization of another.
Based on a real WWII vet and family man turned bank robber. Disillusioned by his post war circumstances, Eddie Boyd is torn between the need to provide for his young family and an unfulfilled dream to head to Hollywood to become a star. He discovers a way to do both, robbing banks Hollywood style, but his dream leads him down a path of danger and tragedy.
Go, Masao! describes the relationship between people and their dogs. Comedian Hideki Matsumoto and a labrador retriever named Masao are selected to appear on the travel corner segment of a TV animal program. Until Hideki Matsumoto and the labrador retriever Masao become popular, they help each other.
A character study about a childlike man who believes in signs, but gets himself in trouble when he arrives in the big city to audition for a movie.
Life has its downs for James, living with his mom in Chicago at 39, an aging performer at Second City, eating and weighing too much. A woman he's been dating drops him, as does his agent, her brother. James turns down roles in local TV, roles that make him sad. Someone's remaking his favorite movie, "Marty," a role he'd love, but he doesn't even get an audition.
When David is left by his fiancé just days before the wedding, his relentlessly upbeat best man, Flula, insists that the pair go on David's previously planned honeymoon: a seven-day backpacking trip through the breathtaking mountains of Oregon. Their adventures are bookended with passages from William Clark's diary describing his friendship with Meriwether Lewis and the terrain they crossed during their expedition.
A press agent for a Broadway actress whose career is going downhill, attempts to get her some publicity by having her adopt two orphans, without her knowledge.
A struggling actress becomes entangled in an abusive relationship with her idol at a cult-like New York theatre company.
Nico is a famous actor in Argentina, but in New York, nobody takes notice. He needs to juggle bartending, babysitting and odd jobs to keep himself afloat. But when old friends from Buenos Aires come to visit, he needs to juggle the image of his old life with the reality of the struggling actor in New York City.
An out-of-work New York City actress returns home to the quaint small town she escaped 10 years before and finds a place far different than the hamlet she left. She suddenly finds performing possibilities and even romance that kind of blow her away.
Grandmother has nothing to say when Libby tells her that she is off to LA to look up Dad, a Hollywood screenwriter. Grandmother has been in a New York cemetery for six years and Dad has been out of Libby's life for 16 of her 19 years. Libby arrives in LA on a Tuesday and phones Dad the one night that Stephanie, who does Jane Fonda's hair, stays over. Stephanie is there the next morning when Libby decides she needs to tell her story face-to-face.