An absent-minded-professor father and his son take off in an old Pontiac to bond during a symbolic road trip through the Western U.S. This while his wife tries to overcome her neuroses to save the family.
After the break up of her marriage, photographer Samantha Taylor retreats to the sanctuary of friend Caroline Lord's California ranch. Samantha falls in love with ranch hand Tate Jordan, and they share a deep and passionate love until Tate finds out that Samantha's ex-husband is popular and wealthy news anchor Warren Taylor. Ashamed he leaves the ranch, Samantha is heartbroken. Samantha breaks her back in an accident and is paralysed, and must learn how to walk - and ride - again. Caroline Lord tragically dies but leaves her ranch to Samantha, who turns it into a riding school for paralysed children. Through this enterprise, she begins to heal from the pain of Tate's desertion, the loss of her friend and her own paralysis. Tate returns to the ranch after hearing of Caroline's death and finds Samantha there. Can they both overcome their own demons and learn to love each other again??
In this HBO special, comedian Martin Short appears in a series of sketches, vignettes and musical performances about Hollywood, featuring some of his classic characters like Ed Grimley, Jackie Rogers Jr., Lawrence Orbach and Troy Soren, and co-starring some of his colleagues from "SCTV" and "Saturday Night Live."
방송국 사장인 프랭크(Frank Cross: 빌 머레이 분)는 돈만을 생각하는 사람, 그에게 크리스마스란 특집방송으로 돈 벌수 있는 기회일 뿐이다. 특집쇼 기획 회의에서 직원을 가볍게 해고하는 그에게, 7년전에 죽은 시체가 찾아와 유령의 방문을 예고한다. 어린 시절과 일 때문에 사랑하는 여인을 떠나보냈던 청년 시절을 회상시켜주는 택시기사 유령, 가족과 애정을 일깨워주는 요정, 미래의 처참한 장례식으로 데려가는 괴물 유령이 차례로 그를 방문한다. 미래까지 갖다온 프랭크는 인간에게 가장 소중한 것이 관심과 사랑임을 깨닫게 된다.