Deeds vive na pequena cidade de Mandrake Falls, em New Hampshire, onde faz sucesso com sua pizzaria e leva uma vida tranquila. Até que, repentinamente, surgem dois executivos que lhe trazem uma notícia surpreendente: um tio afastado acabara de falecer e lhe deixou uma fortuna de US$ 40 bilhões, além do comando da maior empresa de comunicação do mundo e diversos outros negócios. Deeds parte então para a cidade grande, onde começa a implantar em seus novos negócios os valores de sua pequena cidade. É quando Babe Bennett, repórter de um tablóide sensacionalista, é enviada para observá-lo de perto, mas acaba se apaixonando por ele.
Sportswriter Andy Farmer moves with his schoolteacher wife Elizabeth to the country in order to write a novel in relative seclusion. Of course, seclusion is the last thing the Farmers find in the small, eccentric town, where disaster awaits them at every turn.
Friends Aldo, Giovanni, and Giacomo travel from north to south for Giacomo's wedding, carrying a precious item: the father of the bride, a tyrannical rich man who is both their boss and father-in-law (also Aldo and Giovanni married his daughters), has entrusted them with a wooden leg, the work of a famous artist.
Whitney, a spoiled pre-teen from Philadelphia, is forced to move to the country when her parents feel the squeeze of economic hard times. A fish out of water, far from her comfort zone, she befriends an amazing horse, and undertakes a misguided journey back to her old life, only to discover that her family is her home.
A Milanese businessman is beside himself when his son tells him he's going to marry the daughter of a pizza maker from Naples.
To save his crumbling and rapidly-depopulating rural town, its mayor fakes a gruesome murder to attract media attention. His plan initially succeeds, but soon the situation will spiral out of control.
Mais interessado em romance do que sexo, a "Fórmula 17" desmaia com inocência juvenil. O ingênuo garoto de campo Tien-Tsai viaja para Taipei, onde sua busca por perder a virgindade é impedida pela insistência em encontrar o amor verdadeiro primeiro. O título chinês do filme é traduzido como "Mundo de 17 anos", que descreve com precisão seu nicho.
Turkish Pollyanna's story.
At 19, David has his diploma (the first in his family), a job at a car wash, and little else. His family is broke and argues constantly. So, unannounced, David leaves Turin for his uncle's farm in Polesine. Here he learns many life lessons over the course of a summer while hanging out with Bosnian drug dealer Alem and Patrizia, an older woman who's an addict.
Shot over the course of ten years on both film and video, the film consists of a series of carefully composed tableaux of people and environments. Pedestrians shuffle across a bustling Beijing street, steelworkers linger outside a deserted factory, tourists laugh and scamper across a crowded beach, worshippers kneel to pray in a remote village. With a painterly eye for composition, Wang captures China as he sees it, calling to a temporary halt a land in a constant state of change.