"Great, Chinese!" is the first exuberant reaction of Brian, Lisa and Michael Brücker's son, when the Chinese Wang family move into the house next door. But the very next morning, the Brückers realize that they have underestimated their new neighbors. The immigrants from the Far East turn out to be real high-flyers. The Wangs' offspring outperform the Brückers' offspring at school, father Wang snatches the coveted managing director position from under Michael Brücker's nose and mother Li is a university professor, while Lisa "only" has a small, poorly run flower store. Logically, the Brückers find so much perfectionism unbearable in the long run and prepare to strike back...
The scientist father of a teenage girl and boy accidentally shrinks his and two other neighborhood t...
Margot Zeller is a short story writer with a sharp wit and an even sharper tongue. On the eve of her...
After her much older husband forces a move to a suburban retirement community, Pippa Lee engages in ...
Two quarreling peasant families, who were forced to leave their lands after the war, are settled by ...
After a failed suicide attempt, a man receives a substantial inheritance from a long lost relative a...
Swedish efficiency researchers come to Norway for a study of Norwegian men, to optimize their use of...
Back from their trip abroad, the family must meet the people of the neighborhood while preparing for...
A low-class antisocial family ends up in a rich upper-class neighborhood and causes all sorts of tro...
Determined to unseat Steve Finch's reign as the town's holiday season king, Buddy Hall plasters his ...
After a bad breakup with his girlfriend leaves him heartbroken, Carter Webb moves to Michigan to tak...
When secretive new neighbors move in next door, suburbanite Ray Peterson and his friends let their p...
A middle-aged couple suspects foul play when their neighbor's wife suddenly drops dead.
With his family away for their annual summer holiday, a publishing executive decides to live a bache...
A man becomes increasingly jealous of his friend's newfound success.
A day in the life of a barbershop on the south side of Chicago. Calvin, who inherited the struggling...
A man spreads the rumor of his fake homosexuality with the aid of his neighbor, to prevent his immin...
Julia, a real estate agent, finds an enormous amount of money hidden in a dead man's apartment, a st...
After her husband runs off with his secretary, Terry Wolfmeyer is left to fend for herself -- and he...
It's Christmastime, and the Griswolds are preparing for a family seasonal celebration. But things ne...
A black comedy set in the 1960s in a small Netherlands community, populated by a cast of eccentrics,...