Life Stinks (1991)

Seven vignettes explore the difference between fantasy and reality, memory and history, and the joy and agony of the human condition.

A student moves in with a family that lives in an underground house in the middle of the forest, far from civilization. His hopes of peace and quiet are soon…

Prudence Hardcastle is on the pill. So is her sister-in-law, but someone has been swapping aspirin for their pills. Is it the teenage niece, the maid, the chauffeur, a lover,…

Roscoe the Rainmaker is invited to California (with sidekick “Billy”) to relieve a terrible dry spell and to save the community from an unscrupulous businessman who stands to profit from…

A man and a woman start to fall for each other after they get locked inside a movie theater on their first date.

Modest editor, has shipped his wife and kids for the weekend, and is trying to relax in his house at the outskirts of Warsaw. His quiet evening is only disturbed…

The Romeo and Juliet story played out in a tenement neighborhood with Buster and Virginia’s families hating each other over the fence separating their buildings.

A ne’er do well father and ex-husband who always raced his way through the holidays is forced to relive Christmas Day time and again until he gets it right in…

Young love and childish fears highlight a year in the life of a turn-of-the-century family up to the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair.

A small-town country homebody goes to New York to find her missing fiancé and gets romantically involved with two sophisticated men.

In their first screen appearance together, Stan plays a penniless dog lover and Oliver plays a crook who tries to rob him and his new paramour.

A lesbian hires a male escort to break the heart of the bisexual woman who has just dumped her.