Julie Evans
Jay Brooks is that black guy who digs indie rock, graphic novels, and dates white chicks. After a slew of bad break-ups, Jay gives up white women, "cold turkey," and he goes on a mission: "Operation Brown Sugar". But because Jay doesn't fit the "brotha" stereotype, he fails miserably with the "sistahs." Then he meets the dynamic Catherine, a misunderstood "Half-rican Canadian", who's as righteously quirky as he is. To win her heart, Jay must confront his fears as he realizes commitment is a bigger issue than race.
Grace Williams
In LA's Fairfax district, where ethnic groups abound, four households celebrate Thanksgiving amidst family tensions. In the Nguyen family, the children's acculturation and immigrant parents' fears collide. In the Avila family, Isabel's son has invited her estranged husband to their family dinner. Audrey and Ron Williams want to keep their own family's ruptures secret from Ron's visiting mother. In the Seelig household, Herb and Ruth are unwilling to discuss openly their grown daughter's living with her lover, Carla. Around each table, things come to a head. A gun, an affair, a boyfriend, and a pregnancy precipitate crises forcing each family to find its center.
Mrs. Dowell
Panther is a semi-historic film about the origins of The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. The movie spans about 3 years (1966-68) of the Black Panther's history in Oakland. Panther also uses historical footage (B/W) to emphasize some points.
Virginia Cooper
Diana Ross dramatizes multiple personality disorder.
Lady Bracknell
An all-black version of Oscar Wilde's play.
The former star of a cancelled cop TV show solves crimes. The pilot was broadcast on NBC in July 1991 but was not picked up as a series despite being a "personal favorite" of NBC chairman Brandon Tartikoff.
Secretary
A middle-aged man suffering from boredom selfishly walks out on his wife and family in search of excitement and adventure. Before he snaps out of his male-menopause moment, he has a brief affair with a much-younger woman named Jennifer.
Judge
A lonely, gay, middle-aged artist shares his Manhattan brownstone with a young lady in a platonic relationship, and when she becomes pregnant by a married man, he decides to raise her child as his own.
Rachel
A man resists the California fads that his wife, friends and wealthy Marin County neighbors embrace. Based on the serial by Cyra McFadden in the San Francisco Chronicle in the 70s, satirizing the lifestyle trends of the local elite - from open marriages and organic food to New Age cults.
Reporter
An ex-comedian fights to keep a failing nightclub alive as a showcase for aspiring young comics.
A young ghetto kid despairs of ever getting out of that environment and making something of himself, until one day he gets a job as an assistant in a veterinarian's office, and working with all the animals begins to affect his outlook on life.
Bus Passenger
Um professor e seu assistente constroem o primeiro ônibus movido a energia nuclear, apesar da oposição que representa interesses contrários. Entretanto quando uma bomba é colocada no ônibus cria diversos tumultos em sua primeira viagem.
Mary
Darrell REm um período de mudanças comportamentais (1968) um cabeleleiro popular entre as mulheres corre atrás de sua independência financeira enquanto vive vários casos amorosos (alguns perigosos) ao mesmo tempooodt Um cabeleireiro mulherengo e sedutor de Beverly Hills se envolve facilmente com várias mulheres pois, em virtude da sua profissão, muitos homens o consideram homossexual. Ele tenta convencer um rico empresário que está tendo um caso com uma de suas amantes a lhe fornecer capital para montar um salão de beleza. Ao mesmo tempo, ele é pressionado pela noiva para se casar o mais rápido possível, o que pode prejudicar seus planos.
Mama-bama
A nightclub janitor discovers the personal effects of a magician and uses them to become a popular magician himself. Tampering with the secrets of the beyond has its price, however, as he soon learns when he is confronted by voodoo, vampirism, and an eviscerated ghost.
