Alice Drummond

After losing their academic posts at a prestigious university, a team of parapsychologists goes into business as proton-pack-toting \ghostbusters\ who exterminate ghouls, hobgoblins and supernatural pests of all stripes. An ad campaign pays off when a knockout cellist hires the squad to purge her swanky digs of demons that appear to be living in her refrigerator.

A theater director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create a life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse as part of his new play.

Three New York drag queens on their way to Hollywood for a beauty pageant get stranded in a small Midwestern town for the entire weekend when their car breaks down. While waiting for parts for their Cadillac convertible, the flamboyant trio shows the local homophobic rednecks that appearing different doesn't mean they don't have humanity in common.

Sully is a rascally neer-do-well approaching retirement age. While he is pressing a workers compensation suit for a bad knee, he secretly works for his nemesis, Carl, and flirts with Carls young wife Toby. Sullys long- forgotten son and family have moved back to town, so Sully faces unfamiliar family responsibilities. Meanwhile, Sullys landladys banker son plots to push through a new development and evict Sully from his mothers life.

The Popes are a family who havent been able to use their real identity for years. In the late sixties, the parents set a weapons lab afire in an effort to hinder the governments Vietnam war campaign. Ever since then, the Popes have been on the run with the authorities never far behind.

The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas is a musical with a book by Texas author Larry L. King and Peter Masterson. It is based on a story by King that was inspired by the real-life Chicken Ranch in La Grange, Texas. Reynolds is the local sheriff who is more interested in keeping the towns most popular business open than carrying out the letter of the law.Parton is the whorehouse madame who also happens to hold the sheriffs interest.It is the late 1970s, a brothel that has been operating outside of fictional Gilbert, Texas for more than a century. It is under the proprietorship of Miss Mona Stangley, having been left to her by the original owner. While taking care of her girls, she is also on good terms with the local sheriff, Ed Earl Dodd. When crusading television reporter Melvin P. Thorpe (based on real-life Houston news personality Marvin Zindler) decides to make the illegal activity an issue, political ramifications cause the place to be closed down.

Dr. Malcolm Sayer, a shy research physician, uses an experimental drug to \awaken\ the catatonic victims of a rare disease. Leonard is the first patient to receive the controversial treatment. His awakening, filled with awe and enthusiasm, proves a rebirth for Sayer too, as the exuberant patient reveals life's simple but unutterably sweet pleasures to the introverted doctor.

A midwestern teacher questions his sexuality after a former student makes a comment about him at the Academy Awards.

In 1964, a Catholic school nun questions a priest's ambiguous relationship with a troubled young student, suspecting him of abuse. He denies the charges, and much of the film's quick-fire dialogue tackles themes of religion, morality, and authority.