Adaptación cinematográfica de la excelente novela de Mario Vargas Llosa. Santo Domingo (República Dominicana), 1992. Urania Cabral (Isabella Rossellini) regresa a su ciudad natal. Apenas reconoce al viejo calvo y desdentado que yace en su lecho, mudo e inmóvil, casi inerte. Es su padre, Agustín Cabral, alias "Cerebrito", Presidente del Senado y mano derecha del dictador Rafael Trujillo durante muchos, muchos años. Hasta que cayó en desgracia. Pero de aquello ha pasado mucho tiempo. Todo ello lo recuerda Urania, a través de su ingenua mirada infantil. Se lo cuenta a su tía y a sus primas, que no entienden por qué Uranita ha estado tanto tiempo sin venir a verlos, a ellas y a su propio padre
Daisy is the love of Ken's life - she is also large... and very pretty... and on the dole. But Ken is a dreamer, all his dreams to make a fast buck ending up where they started - as dreams. With the rent unpaid, the bailiffs at the door and Ken's dreams in tatters, Daisy sets out to bring home the bacon and gets a job in the local factory. There she meets Marlene and half a dozen other large women who are all united in a secret passion - Sumo wrestling! Ken doesn't know what's hit him.
The film tells the story of the Blanche family who run a dark and dismal health resort on a remote island which is only accessible by ferry. The spa program consists of feeding the guests seaweed and eel-based meals, then administering liberal colonic irrigation. The spa is run by the family matriarch Dame Blanche until her death. Things continue on with her children running the resort until Kath, the resort's former sous chef and love interest of one of the sons, comes back to the island unannounced. Stranded between monthly ferries, she is a catalyst for a series of events that turns life as it is known at Hotel Splendide on its ear.
La dramatización de la historia de amor entre Sidney James y Barbara Windsor, se desarrolló en el contexto de las películas de 'Carry On' durante los años sesenta y setenta.
Five friends who meet at Hull University in the late 1970's and form a barbershop-style quartet. They blow their chance to sing at a graduation gig and vow to meet fifteen years later at the Cote d'Azur villa of one of their parents.
