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1. On a press junket for their new movie, a former star couple, who now hate each other, must pretend to be back together again to disguise the fact that their movie will not be shown because the director is holding it hostage.
2. A film crew has invaded the small town where author Michael Burgess (Alan Alda) lives, to film a movie of his book about the Revolutionary War. His excitement turns to annoyance when he finds out that his story has been spiced up and his girlfriend is having an affair with the leading man.
3. Don Johnson and Jeff Daniels play childhood friends, one just entering into a new relationship, and one who feels that his marriage has lost its steam.
4. Two young women who enjoy commitment-free relationships with men, take their roommate to a nightclub to cheer her up after being dumped. During the evening, one of them meets a man who she realizes later could be THE one, which results in a road trip to what they think is his brother's wedding.
5. Chance Wayne (Paul Newman) returns to the hometown he was run out of for ruining the daughter of a local politician. With him is an aging movie star he feels can advance his movie career. His homecoming doesn't turn out quite as he planned in this movie based on a Tennessee Williams play.
6. When her wealthy boyfriend pops the question to her, a successful New York clothing designer remembers that her divorce from her high school sweetheart back home never went through. She travels home to finalize things, but soon realizes that she still loves her first husband.
7. Alison Steadman and Jim Broadbent are Wendy and Andy, a working-class British couple with twin daughters in their twenties living at home. Daughter Nicola is an unhappy bulimic who is afraid of living a normal life, and Natalie is a plumber planning a trip to America. Wendy works several jobs and volunteers to waitress at her friend's new restaurant, while having to also deal with her out-of-work husband who has just purchased an old lunch wagon with a friend (Stephen Rea).
8. Jessica Lange plays Patsy Cline in a story which covers her musical career as well as her tempestuous relationship with her husband Charlie Dick.
9. One day Nelson Moss meets a young woman at DMV, who teaches him to take a break from his fast-paced advertising executive life. After he falls in love with her, he is puzzled that she only wants to stay with him for a month.
10. When a mysterious southern spinster's (Bette Davis) family plantation is threatened by a highway construction project, she calls on her cousin Miriam to come and help her fight the government. But Miriam's only fight is to obtain the family fortune, and her cousin is the only one standing in her way in this thriller from 1964.
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