Sugarlove

ชีวิตเหมือนจะเป็นเรื่องง่ายสำหรับคู่รักที่แสนจะสมบูรณ์แบบอย่าง ไอวี่ และ ธีโอ ทั้งความสำเร็จในเรื่องของอาชีพ, ชีวิตแต่งงานที่เต็มไปด้วยความรัก และลูก ๆ ที่แสนจะยอดเยี่ยม แต่ภายใต้โฉมหน้าชีวิตในอุดมคติของพวกเขานั้น พายุลูกใหญ่กำลังก่อตัวขึ้นอยู่ ในขณะที่อาชีพของ ธีโอ เริ่มดิ่งลงไป ความทะเยอทะยานของ ไอวี่ ก็พุ่งทะยานขึ้นไป และเชื้อไฟของการแข่งขันอันร้อนแร้งและความขุ่นเคืองใจที่เก็บซ้อนเอาไว้ก็ปะทุขึ้นมา

Jo, the mother of seven children, divorces her second husband in order to marry Jake, a successful but promiscuous screenwriter. Though they are physically and emotionally compatible, they are slowly torn apart.

Shy, sensitive high school outsider Jakob Moormann is miserably lacking immaterial support at home, where his strict father, uniformed cop Claas, and selfish mother are too busy breaking up to be there for him. Jakob focuses on class dream-girl Hannah, without much luck. His secret recording of himself masturbating gets into class bullies Henry and Erik's hands through the mother's thoughtlessness. The rascals blackmail Jakob and post the video on the Internet. After a raging lecture phase, dad stands up for Jakob, but his life is already wrecked more than anyone realizes.

A man in his mid-20s, still living at home with his mother and stepfather, puts all his eggs in one basket: the girl who works at his local coffee shop. The problem is, she has a serious boyfriend. As they become closer, the line between friendship and intimacy is blurred, and the situation forces both to examine where they are in their lives.

Middle-aged widow Beatrice Hunsdorfer and her daughters Ruth and Matilda are struggling to survive in a society they barely understand. Beatrice dreams of opening an elegant tea room but does not have the wherewithal to achieve her lofty goal. Epileptic Ruth is a rebellious adolescent, while shy but highly intelligent and idealistic Matilda seeks solace in her pets and school projects, including one designed to show how small amounts of radium affect marigolds.

After her stay-at-home husband leaves her, a workaholic lawyer finds that she is not completely up to the tasks of caring for her young son, ailing father and household all by herself.

A failed novelist's inability to pay the bills strains relations with his wife and leads him to work at an escort service, where he becomes entwined with a wealthy woman whose husband is a successful writer.

Rory is an ambitious entrepreneur who brings his American wife and kids to his native country, England, to explore new business opportunities. After abandoning the sanctuary of their safe American suburban surroundings, the family is plunged into the despair of an archaic '80s Britain and their unaffordable new life in an English manor house threatens to destroy the family.