Mrs. Aaron
Life has its downs for James, living with his mom in Chicago at 39, an aging performer at Second City, eating and weighing too much. A woman he's been dating drops him, as does his agent, her brother. James turns down roles in local TV, roles that make him sad. Someone's remaking his favorite movie, "Marty," a role he'd love, but he doesn't even get an audition.
Dr. Mildred Wickes
Un trío de cantantes de folk de los años sesenta preparan un show en el Carnegie Hall en memoria de un promotor de conciertos recientemente fallecido.
Neighborhood Lady
A couple who both work at wedding receptions encounter complications when they decide to marry.
Mrs. Pearson
Doug es vive solo al cargo de sus hijas, Katie y Bonnie. Cuando Katie cumple 15 años, y aprovechando un viaje de negocios de su padre, decide ir a un salón de belleza y cambiar completamente su 'look'. De este modo se convierte en una preciosa joven que será objeto del deseo y la admiración de los jóvenes. Sin embargo, su padre no ve con buenos ojos ese cambio de su hija, porque conoce a los hombres...
Agent Constance
Lacey, the shaken survivor of a bloody supernatural rampage in the countryside, is flown to Los Angeles where a slick movie producer plans to cash in on her story. At a decadent Hollywood party, plans for the beginning of a new horror movie franchise are torn asunder when a fragment of the original haunted mirror turns these hotshot movers and shakers into screamers and quakers!
La película se inscribe en la tradición de las obras críticas y densas de Robert Altman. El director se pregunta en esta película por la salud moral y física de los americanos del Norte.
Diane
Brooks Wilson is in crisis. He is torn between his wife Selma and two daughters and his mistress Grace, and also between his career as a successful illustrator and his feeling that he might still produce something worthwhile.