Um garoto brinca com uma velha canção chamada "Purple People Eater" e a criatura realmente aparece. Os dois então vão ajudar um casal de idosos que estão sendo expulsos de casa pelos gananciosos senhorios.
Jodie and his mum are grief-stricken by the passing away of Jodie's grandfather, but they soon find themselves with a lot more to be upset about when he gets determined not to stay dead.
Numa noite de reveillon cada um deles está num lugar diferente. Milner é um corredor, Toad luta no Vietnã, Debbie é uma hippie em San Francisco e o casamento de Steve e Laurie está em crise. O sonho dourado dos anos 60 estaria se acabando?
O ano é 1964. Os Beatles estão prestes a chegar nos Estados Unidos, e os jovens americanos estão completamente loucos. Esperançosos em fazer parte deste momento histórico estão seis adolescentes histéricos de Nova Jérsia que não desistirão de verem o quarteto em pessoa. Embarcando na primeira viagem de suas vidas, os amigos chegam a Nova Iorque, onde eles estão determinados a superarem suas chances e ver a banda em sua primeira aparição no The Ed Sullivan Show.
Henry Steele is a basketball phenom at his small town high school, but when he matriculates to a big city university on a scholarship, soon realizes that he has few skills outside the sport. Expected by his coach to contribute significantly to the team, Henry is overwhelmed by the demands on his time, the "big business" aspect of college sports, and the fact that he never fully learned to read. Things look bleak for Henry when Janet Hays, a pretty graduate student, is assigned as Henry's tutor. Her intellect and strength lift Henry out of his doldrums just in time to battle the coach, who attempts to rescind Henry's scholarship.
A suburban housewife's feeling that her life is standing still causes her to divorce her husband. This causes tension with her daughter, who bitterly resents her walking out on the family, and her mother, whose own beliefs about marriage and family are jolted by her daughter's divorce.
