Emmett Murphy (Shane Hagedorn) is a Civil War veteran who returns to his Michigan home looking for peace. After his wife dies, he fulfills his promise to a dying soldier and brings the Negro widow, Haddie (Lauren LaStrada) and her daughter to stay with him and his son. The townsfolk aren’t ready for this modern family and a nefarious plot to remove them is hatched. Facing bigotry and greatly outnumbered, Emmett struggles to find faith. But when the circus train comes to town, a mysterious turn of events provide Emmett and his family with the unexpected help they need to overcome.
In the bleak near future Los Angeles has become a dangerous war zone with cops pitted against assorted law-breaking lowlifes. Sergeant Arliss Ryder (well played with customary wired intensity by the always great Wings Hauser) has an electronic device put into his back that turns him into an out-of-control psychotic killer and put on the Strike S.Q.U.A.D. (an acronym for Scum Quelling Assault Urban Devision), which is a unit of crazed cops assigned by Captain Bill Quinton (a typically gruff Alex Cord) to rid the City of Angels of criminals by using any means necessary. The only problem is that Arliss discovers what's going down and decides to put a stop to all this madness.
Jeff Hannah es un estudiante del Lincoln High que tiene por delante un prometedor futuro como atleta. Quiere dejar atrás su pasado como miembro de una banda, los Cobras, que aún dominan violentamente el instituto. Sin embargo, este pasado parece no querer darle tregua cuando, por error, es acusado de un escabroso asunto de drogas y además su novia Sherry recibe una brutal paliza. Jeff se embarca en una cruzada en la que la venganza se convierte en su única razón de vivir.
May (Susan Dey) es una madre soltera que, desde su hogar en el barrio de Echo Park en Los Ángeles, sueña con llegar a ser famosa. Para poder llegar a fin de mes, May trabaja en un bar de striptease y alquila una habitación a Jonathan (Tom Hulce), un compositor que sobrevive repartiendo pizzas y que no tarda en enamorarse de ella, aunque May sólo tiene ojos para su vecino culturista (Michael Bowen). El trío traba una fuerte amistad, que les ayuda a superar las decepciones que sufren cuando sus aspiraciones por llegar a Hollywood se ven frustradas. Pero los celos de Jonathan amenazan con hacer peligrar la única auténtica familia que todos ellos poseen en Echo Park.
Shirley Muldowney is determined to be a top-fuel drag racer, although no woman has ever raced them before. Despite the high risks of this kind of racing and the burden it places on her family life, she perseveres in her dream.
Comedia de adolescentes ambientada en los años sesenta. Durante un viaje a México para perder la virginidad, un grupo de alumnos de un instituto de Los Ángeles vivirá diversas peripecias.
