Robby Benson stars as a young San Francisco cab driver with dreams ofbecoming a rock star. Instead he's the prime suspect in the murder of abrilliant scientist, chased by the police and the KGB and the unwillingbaby-sitter to a chimpanzee that carries the formula for globalthermonuclear destruction. It certainly isn't shaping up do be a boringday, and he'll have stories to tell his grandchildren if he doesn't DieLaughing.

Two teenagers at the time of the Normandy invasion in 1944 are friends but they are divided by the same thing that unites them--their faith. Though both are devout Jews, there's a subtle difference. Danny is an Hasidic Jew, brought up to accept faith blindly by his father--an ultra-orthodox rabbi who rejects the 20th century for the special joys of centuries--old tradition. Reuven, on the other hand, has been brought up by his father who is a secular...

Book-loving Belle must rescue her father from a grim castle where he is being held by a beast, as well as fight off the advances of the boorish Gaston. She takes her father's place as captive in the enchanted castle, where, with the help of his enchanted servants, she comes to see a softer side of the beast.