Michael Burgess is an academic who has written a scholarly book on the American Revolution which Hollywood has bought the film rights to. The arrival of the film crew seriously disrupts him as actors want to change their characters, directors want to re-stage battles, and he becomes infatuated with Faith who will play the female lead in the movie. At the same time, he is fighting with his crazy mother who thinks the Devil lives in her kitchen, and his girlfriend who is talking about commitment.
Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie s...
Undine is a historian and tour guide at the Berlin City Museum specializing in urban development, wh...
A committed film director struggles to complete his movie while coping with a myriad of crises, pers...
Small-town bartender Owen Peadman goes to Los Angeles to raise money to help save his father's Minne...
Brian Owens was once a prominent professor of quantum mechanics until an accident stripped him of hi...
An actor poses as a lawyer to help his sick friend, and problems develop.
Bumbling professor Ned Brainard accidentally invents flying rubber, or "Flubber", an incredible mate...
Professor Lawrence Wetherhold might be imperiously brilliant, monumentally self-possessed and an int...
A meditation on love and its various incarnations, set within a community of friends in Oregon. It i...
A young lunatic director and his devoted cult of cinema terrorists kidnap a Hollywood movie goddess ...
A renowned ophthalmologist is desperate to cut off an adulterous relationship…which ends up in murde...
In this belated sequel to 'The Decline of the American Empire', middle-aged Montreal college profess...
After a rough divorce, Frances, a 35-year-old professor and writer from San Francisco takes a tour o...
Grady is a 50-ish English professor who hasn't had a thing published in years—not since he wrote his...
A strong-willed peasant girl is sent by her father to the estate of some local aristocrats to capita...
An American-born Chinese economics professor accompanies her boyfriend to Singapore for his best fri...
With the peak of his career long behind him, an actor clings to his past glory — until a sudden wake...
It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been in...
Sherlock Holmes is as dashing as ever, but with a little secret: Dr. Watson is the brains behind the...
Quincy Adams Wagstaff, the new president of Huxley U, hires bumblers Baravelli and Pinky to help his...