In 1979, filmmaker Trent Harris visits the small town of Beaver, Utah to film a talent show. Impressed by a performer called Groovin' Gary, he recreates Gary's act in 1981 with Sean Penn and in 1985 with Crispin Glover.
A dedicated mother is told that she only has a few months to live. She is determined to spend her remaining days with her family, but she takes that idea to a ridiculous extreme.
An alcoholic, cancer-ridden American film-maker decides to produce a Bollywood movie.
Finnish porn-movie producer Pertsa returns from America to his home country to continue his profession with hopelessly-small budgets and incompetent casts and crews. A self-ironic satire about director Donner's scandalous fame in late-1960s Finland, notorious for a graphic long shot of his penis pointing northeast.
A man dies in an accident, leaving two weeping widows: a society lady and an exotic dancer. The rivalry between the two women goes to unexpected limits, until they are informed that neither will inherit from their former companion.
A secret agent tries to prevent World War III.
