
Suffering from writer's block and eagerly awaiting his writing award, Harry Block remembers events from his past and scenes from his best-selling books as characters, real and fictional, come back to haunt him.

When he discovers that his adopted son is a genius, a New York sportswriter seeks out the boy's birth mother - a ditzy porn star and prostitute.

In New York in 1928, a struggling playwright is forced to cast a mobster's talentless girlfriend in his latest drama in order to get it produced.

An inept crook and his wife strike it rich when their botched bank job's cookie-making cover business becomes a phenomenal success.

A New York girl sets her father up with a beautiful woman in a troubled marriage while her stepsister gets engaged.

In the 1930s, jazz guitarist Emmet Ray idolizes Django Reinhardt, faces gangsters and falls in love with a mute woman.

The fortunes of a husband and wife differ drastically after they divorce.

A corporate engineer develops a lucrative secret process for a company but doesn't know who to trust when the higher-ups seemingly want to steal it from him.

An ordinary American family goes on vacation to Europe. Because of the Cold War they are stuck in the U.S. Embassy surrounding by the Soviet forces.

A man has an affair with his best friend's wife after several failed relationships including a marriage.