Selfish yuppie Charlie Babbitt's father left a fortune to his savant brother Raymond and a pittance to Charlie; they travel cross-country.

An ordinary working class boy, like all his peers, he played football day and night and dreamed of being a striker. But no matter which team he played for - in the yard, at the factory, or in the army - he was inevitably put in goal.

Two young men, Martin and Rudi, both suffering from terminal cancer, get to know each other in a hospital room. They drown their desperation in tequila and decide to take one last trip to the sea. Drunk and still in pajamas they steal the first fancy car they find, a 60's Mercedes convertible. The car happens to belong to a bunch of gangsters, which immediately start to chase it, since it contains more than the pistol Martin finds in the glove box.

Юный блокадник Юра Тюкалов пришел в спорт после войны, когда у него, казалось, не было сил жить, не то что вести изнурительные тренировки по академической гребле. Но после встречи с тренерами Михаилом и Верой Савримович у Юры открывается второе дыхание, и он начинает жизнь заново. Судьбы, обожженные войной, соединились в команде, где все поддерживают и вдохновляют друг друга. Победы даются нелегко, но у Юры есть любовь, талант и родная команда, которую не остановить: их цель — Олимпиада в Хельсинки.

At an elite, old-fashioned boarding school in New England, a passionate English teacher inspires his students to rebel against convention and seize the potential of every day, courting the disdain of the stern headmaster.