Cyndi Lauper stars as a performing mermaid in a Miami nightclub who ends up on the wrong end of a murder. On the run carrying a locket that people seem to be getting killed for, she runs into an ex-golfer and a wisecracking kid who might just be able to bail her out of this wacky nightmare..
With white Jewish lesbians for parents and two adopted brothers - one mixed-race and one Korean-Brooklyn teen Avery grew up in a unique and loving household. But when her curiosity about her African-American roots grows, she decides to contact her birth mother. This choice propels Avery into her own complicated exploration of race, identity, and family that threatens to distance her from the parents she's always known. She begins staying away from home, starts skipping school, and risks losing her shot at the college track career she had always dreamed of. But when Avery decides to pick up the pieces of her life and make sense of her identity, the results are inspiring. OFF AND RUNNING follows Avery to the brink of adulthood, exploring the strength of family bonds and the lengths people must go to become themselves..
Une sortie d'autoroute manquée et voilà Darry Marzouki, prestidigitateur au chômage, croisant la route d'Irène Montier Duval, une belle bourgeoise, le sac Hermès rempli de billets de banque. Par amour, elle a servi d'intermédiaire dans une vente d'armes entre un ministre français et la Corée. L'affaire s'est ébruitée. Le ministre veut lui faire porter le chapeau. En fuite, elle propose à Darry de le payer pour qu'il la conduise à Genève dans sa belle BMW. Le hic, c'est que la BMW n'est pas à Darry. Il l'a volée sur un coup de tête à son beau-frère, petite frappe un tantinet irritable, qui promet de l'étriper s'il ne la rend pas. Ne pouvant accepter la proposition d'Irène, Darry s'invente une identité d'altermondialiste se rendant à Locarno pour un sommet. Irène, qui rêve de changer d'air, se prend au jeu..
In 2003 the year of Aomori Asian Games, Dae-woong, a former ice hockey player receives an offer to be a director of Korean national ice hockey team. Before he enjoys the moment, realizes it is a woman national team with bunch of losers; a figure skating player who wants to get married by becoming a national team, a former field hockey player, now a fat housewife, and an expelled short track skater. As an ace player, Ji-won, a former national team player of North Korea, joins the team. But they still have hope as only 5 teams participating this year. With the great victory of first match, they feel the medal is closer, yet Ji-won meets her sister left in North Korea alone as a next opponent....
