Stand Up

The First American Feature made in Cuba since the revolution of 1959.

Godai tries to figure out what to do with his life after college while competing with Kyoko's impossibly perfect tennis coach for her affection.

Peter Hungerford, the kindhearted proprietor of a London clothing store, loses both his business and his wife, Adele, when she runs off with his savings and his clerk, Oscar. Forced into bankruptcy, Peter becomes the manager of a cheese business owned by his patron, the Earl of Denham. Also joining the company is Paula, Peter's former cashier. Aware of the earl's amorous intentions toward Paula, Peter watches over her. The frustrated earl fires Peter, but he is overcome with remorse and soon rehires him. Later, the creditors who took over Peter's store request that he return as manager. He accepts, then upbraids Paula when she declares her intention to stay on as the earl's companion. Paula realizes that she loves Peter and follows him back to the shop, where she takes charge of him and his affairs on a permanent basis.

Fifi is seen as Pierrot in a French play that is a failure despite her effort to put ginger into the rest of the cast. Among the few in the last audience was Cartouche, a veteran, who had become an actor when his wounds no longer allowed him to follow Napoleon. Through Cartouche's efforts Fifi is employed at the Imperial theater in Parts. He takes her to his lodging, determined to protect her. Fifi fails to understand how much Cartouche is doing for her, and when he gives her money to buy clothes she purchases a toy dog sailed Toto. The veteran buys a lottery ticket and gives it to Fifi. The ticket bears the winning number and Fifi finds herself in possession of a fortune. Cartouche decides Fifi must be educated. He applies to his old general, who suggests that Fifi be sent to the home of Louis Bourcet, an attorney who lives alone with his mother. Instead of putting her money in the bank Fifi hides it and startles the Bourcet family by her extravagance. They decide she has even more money than they thought and Louis begins to see in the wealthy Fifi a very acceptable wife. He makes love to the girl, and she accepts his proffer. Then she sets about to make him break the engagement by squandering her money, realizing she is in love with Cartouche. Accordingly she buys the most impossible things, scandalizing the Bourcet family into a complete renunciation by giving the remainder of her wealth to a charitable benefit for old soldiers. Ejected from the house by the angry Mme. Bourcet, Fifi returns to the Imperial, where she demands more money for her services because she has been publicly thanked by the General for her donation to charity. She tells Cartouche she loves him, but the old soldier refuses. to permit her to "throw herself away" upon him until Fifi gets an inspiration of her own.

A non-social author and his socialite wife invites his rich best friend and former ex-girlfriend to stay with them for five days in order to save their house from immediate foreclosure.