หลังจากสามีเสียชีวิต อลิซและทอมมี่ ลูกชายของเธอจึงออกจากเมืองเล็กๆ ในนิวเม็กซิโกไปยังแคลิฟอร์เนีย ซึ่งอลิซหวังว่าจะเริ่มต้นชีวิตใหม่ในฐานะนักร้อง แต่ปัญหาเรื่องเงินทำให้พวกเขาต้องย้ายไปอยู่ที่แอริโซนาแทน โดยอลิซรับงานเป็นพนักงานเสิร์ฟในร้านอาหารเล็กๆ แห่งหนึ่ง
Ellen Burstyn
Alice Hyatt
Alfred Lutter
Tommy
Kris Kristofferson
David
Harvey Keitel
Ben Eberhardt
Diane Ladd
Flo
Lelia Goldoni
Bea
Billy Green Bush
Donald Hyatt
Jodie Foster
Audrey
Valerie Curtin
Vera
หลังจากสามีเสียชีวิต อลิซและทอมมี่ ลูกชายของเธอจึงออกจากเมืองเล็กๆ ในนิวเม็กซิโกไปยังแคลิฟอร์เนีย ซึ่งอลิซหวังว่าจะเริ่มต้นชีวิตใหม่ในฐานะนักร้อง แต่ปัญหาเรื่องเงินทำให้พวกเขาต้องย้ายไปอยู่ที่แอริโซนาแทน โดยอลิซรับงานเป็นพนักงานเสิร์ฟในร้านอาหารเล็กๆ แห่งหนึ่ง
A small town waitress stuck in a lousy marriage finds love when an exciting out-of-towner enters her life.
Recently widowed mom Brenda fights to protect her family during a harrowing road trip when a murder and a missing bag of cash plunge them into danger.
A trailer is burning in the middle of a plain. The bodies of two adulterous lovers are found. Scenes from both families, before and after the dramatic events, suggest an unusual connection between them. But what is their secret?
An Inuit hunter races his sled home with a fresh-caught halibut. This fish pervades the entire film, in real and imaginary form. Meanwhile, Axel tags fish in New York as a naturalist's gofer. He's happy there, but a messenger arrives to bring him to Arizona for his uncle's wedding. It's a ruse to get Axel into the family business. In Arizona, Axel meets two odd women: vivacious, needy, and plagued by neuroses and familial discord. He gets romantically involved with one, while the other, rich but depressed, plays accordion tunes to a gaggle of pet turtles.
Max Baron is a Jewish advertising executive in his 20s who's still getting over the death of his wife. Nora Baker is a 40-something diner waitress who enjoys the wilder side of life. Mismatched or not, their attraction is instant and smoldering. With time, however, their class and age differences become an obstacle in their relationship, especially since Max can't keep Nora a secret from his Jewish friends and upper-crust associates forever.
When Johnny is released from prison following a forgery charge, he quickly lands a job as a short-order cook at a New York diner. Following a brief fling with waitress Cora, he develops an attraction for Cora's friend and fellow waitress Frankie. While Frankie resists Johnny's charms initially, she eventually relents when her best friend, Tim, persuades her to give Johnny a chance.
A novelist is blinded in a car crash that killed his wife and several years later rediscovers his passion for life and writing when he embarks on an affair with the neglected wife of an indicted businessman.
Two childhood sweethearts, now both widowed, share a night by a lake in the mountains.
