Marina Durell

April (Helen Hunt) é casada com Ben Green (Matthew Broderick) e, prestes a chegar aos 40 anos, deseja desesperadamente ter um filho. Só que suas tentativas não dão efeito e, para piorar, seu marido deseja se separar. Logo em seguida, sua mãe adotiva falece e ela é procurada por Bernice Graves (Bette Midler), uma apresentadora de TV que diz ser sua mãe biológica. Perdida em meio a tantas reviravoltas, April conhece Frank (Colin Firth), o pai de um de seus alunos, que também vive um momento conturbado devido a uma recente separação.

In 24 hours, 5 worlds collide in the forgotten neighborhoods of New York City.

Lisette and husband Chino face marital difficulties. She is fed up with the kids, while he has job troubles. His mother Rosaria hates Lisette and the neighborhood tramp has designs on Chino. Things get even worse when Chino goes to jail and Lisette gets a good job uptown. Can this marriage be saved?

Andrea Crawford, an important business woman, risks everything to save a kid from the life of crime.

Ramón Iglesia, the head of a Puerto Rican family living in Long Island, encounters difficulties fulfilling his dream of moving back to Puerto Rico. Portrays many of the hardships faced by Puerto Ricans and other Hispanics in the United States, including confrontation among family members as traditional Hispanic values conflict with American values.

When his partner is killed, tough Irish detective Eddie Ryan vows to avenge the death, whatever the cost. As he begins unraveling clues, his behavior becomes so outrageous that he's obliged to turn in his badge, but the experience only emboldens him. Ryan eventually learns that his partner was caught up in a Puerto Rican gun-running scheme masterminded by a crook named Sweet Willie, who wants to foment revolutionary war.

A young wife and mother, bored with day-to-day life in New York City and neglected by her husband, slips into increasingly outrageous fantasies: her mother breaking into the apartment, an explorer's demonstration of tribal fertility music at a party causing strange transformations, and joining terrorists to plant explosives in the Statue of Liberty.