British filmmaker Simon Cellan Jones directs the BBC drama Eroica, starring Ian Hart as Ludwig van Beethoven. Shot on digital video, this TV film depicts the first performance of Beethoven's Third Symphony, June 9th, 1804, in Vienna, Austria. Prince Lobkowitz (Jack Davenport) has invited friends to listen to Beethoven conduct his new symphony for the first time. Among the aristocratic attendees are Count Dietrichstein (Tim Pigott-Smith), Countess Brunsvik (Claire Skinner), and composer Josef Haydn (Frank Finlay). The actual musical score is performed by the Orchestre Revolutionaire et Romantique, under the direction of John Eliot Gardiner.
El profesor David Ash acude a Edbrook para calmar los temores de Tess, la niñera de los Mariell, que asegura ver cosas muy extrañas. Ash intenta convencerla de que son alucinaciones fruto del cansancio y el estrés; sin embargo, también él empieza a dudar de sus sentidos ante la anómala conducta de los tres hijos mayores de la familia.
1940, Linda Voss (Melanie Griffith) es una mujer irlandesa, de origen judío-alemana que ama las películas, especialmente las películas sobre guerra y espías. Consigue un trabajo en un bufete de abogados de Nueva York, después de demostrar que puede hablar alemán con fluidez. Como secretaria y traductora de Ed Leland (Michael Douglas), comienza a sospechar que su jefe está involucrado en trabajos de espionaje.
En el mundo de las inversiones financieras Anthony Wayne es un talento, sin embargo en el amor es un auténtico desastre. Cuando viaja a París por motivos de trabajo, Anthony conoce a Nicole, la mujer de sus sueños. Para acercarse a ella, Anthony ha ideado un plan.
Joe and Sarah Marriot are a pair of European campers who have pitched their tent for a little R & R at a campsite in France.
The other families that have come to the site on holiday provide great comedy and plenty of people watching for the Marriots. Of course, you'd expect hilarity from characters dubbed the Fitness Family, Mr. and Mrs. Topless, Fatty Granada, and the In-the-Trades. But the Marriots' enjoyment of observing the outside world turns inward when the entrance of Early Bird, a free-spirited female, shakes up their little nest.
Being accused of child abuse is a nightmare every family dreads. The Taylors are an ordinary happy family, but Paul and Jill are worried about their 11-year-old son Mark, who is not eating. The family GP has diagnosed 'failure to thrive', and Mark is sent to the hospital for a check-up.
