The perfect middle-class couple are holding a dinner party when Nicholas gets a telephone call from Sheila, the mother of his teenage daughter Joan, saying that she can no longer stand to be with her and he must look after her now.
Derek Godfrey
Nic-Nic
Diana Fairfax
Nat-Nat
Priscilla Morgan
Sheila
Tessa Wyatt
Joan
Hylda Baker
Mrs. Wiltshire
Richard Gale
Tim
Virginia Stride
Sally
The perfect middle-class couple are holding a dinner party when Nicholas gets a telephone call from Sheila, the mother of his teenage daughter Joan, saying that she can no longer stand to be with her and he must look after her now.
After a convivial holiday dinner party, things begin to unravel when a husband and wife address some prickly issues concerning their marriage.
An Italian socialite on the run signs on as housekeeper for a widower with three children.
Violet, a widowed mother on her first date in years, arrives at an upscale restaurant where she is relieved that her date, Henry, is more charming and handsome than she expected. But their chemistry begins to curdle as Violet begins being irritated and then terrorized by a series of anonymous drops to her phone.
A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.
Molly Gunn, the freewheeling daughter of a deceased rock legend, is forced to get a job when her manager steals her money. As nanny to Ray - the precocious, oft-ignored daughter of a music executive - she learns what it means to be an adult while teaching Ray how to be a child.
While out to avoid spending time with her narcissistic and promiscuous mother, sixteen-year-old Jo has a brief affair that leaves her pregnant and abandoned. When her mother remarries, Jo's only support becomes her friend Geoffrey, a homosexual.
When Manny Singer's wife dies, his young daughter Molly becomes mute and withdrawn. To help cope with looking after Molly, he hires sassy housekeeper Corrina Washington, who coaxes Molly out of her shell and shows father and daughter a whole new way of life. Manny and Corrina's friendship delights Molly and enrages the other townspeople.
A mother and her teenage daughter must confront Death when it arrives in the form of an astonishing talking bird.
Just when George Banks has recovered from his daughter's wedding, he receives the news that she's pregnant ... and that George's wife is expecting too. He was planning on selling their home, but that's a plan that—like George—will have to change with the arrival of both a grandchild and a kid of his own.
After withdrawing to the Chateau Marmont, a passionless Hollywood actor reexamines his life when his eleven-year-old daughter surprises him with a visit.