Una famiglia borghese composita e numerosa dell'Upper East Side newyorkese. Uno scrittore americano che vive a Parigi e va in vacanza a Venezia con la figlia. E una turista yankee conquistata dallo stesso con un escamotage.
Jon Aldrich (Selleck), affermato uomo d'affari di Chicago, è costretto a ospitare in casa i suoi genitori. Mamma Mildred è appena reduce da un'operazione, mentre papà Harry ha da poco dato fuoco alla sua casa in Florida. Con Harry rimbambito, Jon per qualche strana ragione ricercato dall'Fbi e con una sorella in arrivo, la situazione rischia definitivamente di precipitare.
Morto suo padre, sposato suo fratello, il povero Gordon, avvocato, è rimasto l'unico a prendersi cura dell'anziana genitrice, ormai fuori di testa. Fedele alla promessa fatta al padre, Gordon non intende ricoverare la genitrice in un ospizio, ma quando il caratteraccio e le fisime della donna rischiano di mandargli a monte l'intesa con la graziosa infermiera Louise, la situazione va risolta.
Laid-back baby boomer Yuichi (Ryo Iwamatsu) is a middle-aged manga artist and singer-songwriter when he isn't at his salaryman day job or watching out for his elderly mother. Suffering from increasing dementia since her husband's death, Mitsue (Harue Akagi) is a constant source of comic energy or annoyance for Yuichi, and he and his son must soon decide if they should put her in a home for the elderly. Jumping back in time, we see how Mitsue (played by Kiwako Harada) tracked the tumult of the latter half of the 20th century, being raised as one of 10 brothers and sisters, surviving the war, and having to push her alcoholic husband (Ryo Kase) along in life. "Pecoross" is directed by the oldest active film director in Japan, Azuma Morisaki, who creates an emotionally complex work that is only the more profound and life-affirming for its cartoonish portrayal.
On-the-run from the London mafia, Omi returns to his ancestral village – a place he’d flown from with his grandad’s money and grander ‘London Dreams’. Will Omi be able to hide his failures while chasing love, and the lost recipe of the infamous dish, ‘Chicken Khurana’?
Juan, a seventy-year-old man with senile dementia, shares a room with Manuel, a young sparrow.
An old woman has died and her widower with dementia confesses to killing her. After this, the story goes back in time to show the events leading up to her death.
"Assisted Living" chronicles a day in the life of Todd, a janitor who spends his days smoking pot and interacting with the residents for his own entertainment. Todd's detachment from his surroundings is compromised only by his unlikely friendship with Mrs. Pearlman, a resident who begins to confuse him with her son. On this particular day, Todd must choose whether or not to play the part. "Assisted Living" is shot and staged in a real nursing home and gains much of its unique effect and style from the participation of actual residents and staff members. During much of the film, it is impossible to distinguish between what is real and what is fiction.
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