Bad News Johnson, a con artist from Memphis, Tennessee, arrives in Dallas, Texas, accompanied by his dim sidekick July Jones with only twenty-five cents between them. The duo arrange to become boarders at the home of Louella "Mama Lou" Holiday, who is fooled into believing Johnson is an acting teacher from Hollywood. Mrs. Holiday agrees to give the men free room and board if they will provide poise lessons to her daughter, an aspiring beauty queen named Honey Dew.

A family loaded with quirky, colorful characters piles into an old van and road trips to California ...

A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his 10-year-old daug...

When the local FBI office receives a letter from a terrorist known only as 'The Citizen', it's quick...

A depressed white-collar worker tries hypnotherapy, only to find himself in a perpetual state of dev...

In Dallas, witnesses against a drug-lord are murdered in a safe-house.The testimony of FBI agents be...

Marian Medford Woodstock gave up a chance twenty years ago to compete for the Miss USA beauty title ...

Two carefree pals from Brooklyn traveling through rural Alabama on their way back to college are mis...

Turquoise, a former beauty queen turned hardworking single mother, prepares her rebellious teenage d...

African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bi...

In a small Minnesota town, the annual beauty pageant is being covered by a TV crew. Former winner Gl...

Mickey Gordon is a basketball referee who travels to France to bury his father. Ellen Andrews is an ...

A successful Texas gynecologist finds himself amid a bevy of women and their problems – his wife’s b...

New York fashion designer, Melanie Carmichael suddenly finds herself engaged to the city's most elig...

Pelopidas and his wife, Pelagia, receive a visit from their fiery daughter, Dora, who announces that...

A young woman who lives in a desert trailer park must choose between caring for her hapless father a...

The Dashwood sisters, sensible Elinor and passionate Marianne, whose chances at marriage seem doomed...

Kay Parrish, a society girl, finds she is penniless when her father dies. However she persuades Terr...

Local councillor Sidney Fiddler persuades the Mayor to help improve the image of their rundown seasi...

A young woman's rise to fame after she wins a beauty contest is cut short when she marries an ex-con...

Two escaped convicts roll into the village of Happy, Texas, where they're mistaken for a gay couple ...