After leaving the prison, the dwarf criminal Calvin Sims joins to his moron brother Percy to steal an expensive huge diamond in a jewelry for the mobster Walken. They are chased by the police, and Calvin hides the stone in the purse of the executive Vanessa Edwards, whose husband Darryl Edwards wants to have a baby. Percy convinces Calvin to dress like a baby and be left in front of the Edwards's house to get inside the house and retrieve the diamond. Darryl and Vanessa keep Calvin for the weekend and decide to adopt him, while Walken threatens Darryl to get the stone back.
Any 1984. En Billy Elliot és un nen que viu a la zona minera de Durham, al nord-est d'Anglaterra. El seu pare i el seu germà són miners que estan de vaga, com la majoria dels seus companys, per defensar els seus drets contra la patronal i contra les retallades del govern britànic. En aquest context, en Billy, que és orfe de mare, descobreix la seva passió per la dansa. Però en un món tan dominat per un concepte antiquat de masculinitat i per la duresa de la vida diària, no li resultarà fàcil convèncer la seva família perquè li permetin fer una prova per entrar a l'escola del Royal Ballet.
The inhabitants of an institution in a remote country rebel against their keepers. Their acts of rebellion are by turns humorous, boring and alarming. An allegory on the problematic nature of fully liberating the human spirit, as both commendable and disturbing elements of our nature come forward. The film shows how justifiable revolt may be empowering, but may also turn to chaos and depravity. The allegory is developed in part by the fact that the film is cast entirely with dwarfs
When his only friend dies, a man born with dwarfism moves to rural New Jersey to live a life of solitude, only to meet a chatty hot dog vendor and a woman dealing with her own personal loss.
A philosophical burlesque, Human Nature follows the ups and downs of an obsessive scientist, a female naturalist, and the man they discover, born and raised in the wild. As scientist Nathan trains the wild man, Puff, in the ways of the world - starting with table manners - Nathan's lover Lila fights to preserve the man's simian past, which represents a freedom enviable to most.
Short in stature but big on love, a bachelor meets two very different women who broaden his horizons and help him find purpose in life.