The alumni cast of a space opera television series have to play their roles as the real thing when an alien race needs their help.

Pianist David Helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. Years later he returns to the piano, to popular if not critical acclaim.

Forced by the imminent foreclosure of their friend's bar, two lifelong buddies will decide to rob a bank's armored car, not knowing that its cargo is not money, but a new street drug.

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