Selv i cheerleading bliver der dystet. To hold konkurrerer om det årlige mesterskab, og pigerne kæmper hårdt for ære og anerkendelse. På Rancho Carne High School i San Diego har skolens cheerleading trup, The Toros, haft vind i sejlene de sidste fem år. Nu står truppen til at skulle have en ny leder, Torrance (Kirsten Dunst), og hun forventes at hente trofæet hjem i den årlige nationale cheerleading konkurrence. Men det er ikke uden problemer at gå efter guldet, der er uro i geledderne og den nye, rapkæftede Missy Pantone fra L.A. (Eliza Dushku fra Buffy – Vampyrernes skræk) skaber yderligere bøvl.
Jamal Wallace er en yderst velbegavet ung sort dreng, som er vokset op i Bronx. Både i skolen og på basketball-banen er hans talent ikke sådan at overse, og netop det skaffer ham billet til et overklasse-college. Da han begynder at aflevere nogle meget geniale skriftlige opgaver, får en bitter lektor, som ikke selv kan forfatte noget stort og derfor mener, at han skal lære andre kunsten, en mistanke om, at Jamal snyder. En sort knægt fra Bronx kan umuligt have skrevet, hvad Jamal rent faktisk gør! Sideløbende er Jamal, uden at vide det, stødt på forfatteren til et yderst hædret og berømt mesterværk med den sigende titel Avalon Landing, nemlig William Forrester.
A teenager attends a fantasy writers' convention where he discovers his idea has been stolen by an established novelist.
Following a humiliating plagiarism scandal, an author moves to an isolated small-town house with her daughter to write her comeback novel. Desperate for inspiration, she communicates with a mysterious ghostly presence that has befriended her daughter.
David, a waiter, finds an unpublished manuscript in a dresser drawer. To impress a girl, he claims to be the author. When the novel becomes a best-seller, the real author introduces himself and begins to take over David's life.
A young couple is shaken by a seemingly fraudulent yet unprovable act that strikes to the core of their cultural pretensions.
A film about the first benefit rock concert when major musicians performed to raise relief funds for the poor of Bangladesh. The Concert for Bangladesh was a pair of benefit concerts organised by former Beatles guitarist George Harrison and Indian sitar player Ravi Shankar. The shows were held at 2:30 and 8:00 pm on Sunday, 1 August 1971, at Madison Square Garden in New York City, to raise international awareness of, and fund relief for refugees from East Pakistan, following the Bangladesh Liberation War-related genocide.
A stage-struck small-towner is tricked in backing a bad straight play, but it turns out to be a unintentional comedy hit. Problems arise, when he is sued for plagiarism.
A struggling writer steals poems written by his mute friend to achieve fame and fortune.
As Taylor Swift’s record-breaking Eras Tour expands around the globe and onto the silver screen, CNN’s investigation into the copyright lawsuit brought by songwriters Sean Hall and Nathan Butler against Swift for her hit song “Shake it Off.”
Seonwoo Jung is an artist who claims “borrowing” rather than plagiarism when an old friend who’s been abroad re-enters, and agitates, her life: a secret meeting with a curator and her old friend suggests she seduce her partner.
Tucumán, Argentina, 1965. Three years before George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead was released, director Ofelio Linares Montt shot Zombies in the Sugar Cane Field, which turned out to be both a horror film and a political statement. It was a success in the US, but could not be shown in Argentina due to Juan Carlos Onganía's dictatorship, and was eventually lost. Writer and researcher Luciano Saracino embarks on the search for the origins of this cursed work.
Jesu and Peter are childhood friends who live in a coastal village in India and depend on fishing as their livelihood. The community is oppressed by a powerful gangster named Alphonso. Jesu is an orphan, while Peter is brought up by his aunt and uncle, after the death of his mother. The community is all thrilled when Phillips finds black pearls off the coast. But then so does Alphonso, who asks his divers to get all the pearls, thus disturbing the ocean. Peter meets with Suzy D'Silva and they fall in love with each other, and get married. While enjoying a quiet swim on the sea-shore, Suzy disappears. A search is carried out, and a number of human body parts are recovered. With shock and horror, this community finds that their livelihood is being threatened by a gigantic, virtually indestructible man-eating shark.
The Spanish author Enrique Jardiel Poncela (1901-1952) was one of the best comedy writers of all time, a novelist and newspaper columnist, misunderstood, even censored, both by the Second Republic government and Francoism, an outsider ahead of his time; also a filmmaker and screenwriter in Hollywood, architect of a revolutionary theatrical building and scenographer, cartoonist and illustrator. An implausible genius.