In Los Angeles, an ex-con takes the underground fighting world by storm in his quest to fulfill a promise to a dead friend.

La vie de Cassie n'est pas de tout repos en cette période de Noël. En effet son petit-ami a rompu avec elle et son associé à la boulagerie la laisse tomber… Une star de cinéma est de passage en ville et sans le reconnaître, Cassie tombe sous son charme et semble même retrouver espoir en l'amour.

An advertising CEO wakes up in the hospital speaking only in ad slogans.

Lil (Naomi Watts) and Roz ('Robin Wright' ) are two lifelong friends, having grown up together as neighbors in an idyllic beach town. As adults, their sons have developed a friendship as strong as that which binds their mothers. One summer, all four are confronted by simmering emotions that have been mounting between them, and each find unexpected happiness in relationships that cross the bounds of convention.

Jericho "Action" Jackson is a Detroit police sergeant who was demoted from lieutenant for almost tearing the arm off of sexually violent sociopath Sean Dellaplane, whose father is Peter Dellaplane, a major car manufacturer. But Dellaplane himself is violent as well. Dellaplane kills his wife Patrice by shooting her. And then he plants her body in Jackson's apartment, framing Jackson. Dellaplane won't miss Patrice very much, because he has a drug-addicted mistress named Sydney Ash. He keeps Sydney hooked with a free supply of heroin. Jackson suspects Dellaplane of masterminding a murder spree against local officials from the auto workers' union.

Les enfants de Jack et Maya sont désespérés car leurs parents, trop occupés par le travail, ne prennent jamais le temps d'organiser des fêtes de fin d'année dignes de ce nom. Or, cette année le couple doit organiser chez euix un Noël en famille parfait, pour séduire un potentiel client russe. Ils engagent alors Owen, organisateur d'évènements et spécialiste de Noël, pour les aider.

Le père Noël perd ses pouvoirs magiques après qu'un Sénateur mène une campagne contre lui. Il ne peut donc pas remplir son rôle le soir de Noël… Deux enfants, Miley et Zach, vont l'accueillir dans leur grange et lui venir en aide afin de sauver la fête.

Sam et Kat sont amis depuis toujours et ont toujours célébré les fêtes de fin d'année ensemble. Ils ont connu ensemble tous les aléas de la vie, les joies comme les peines, se soutenant à chaque épreuve. Mais cette année, Sam réalise que Kat est la femme sa vie. Il souhaite lui avouer son amour mais redoute que sa déclaration ne gâche leur passé et surtout leur avenir.

Salvatore dies in a car accident because he was too busy leering at a picture of his wife. Because he didn't make a will and he has no heirs, his brothers stand to inherit his entire fortune. Unless the wife (Edwige Fenech) can get pregnant right away, so that Salvatore will still be considered the father of the child.

After a stint in a psychiatric facility Jessica, her husband and a friend move to remote farm they have recently purchased. There they find a young woman by the name of Emily living in the house and they invite her to stay. When Jessica goes for a swim in the lake, she sees a body just below the water's surface. When they go into the village to sell some old furniture, they learn that a woman by the name of Abigail Bishop drowned in the lake and her body was never found. Local folklore has that Abigail is now a vampire roaming the countryside. A mute blond girl leads her to the body of a dead man but the body is not there when Jessica goes for help. Jessica and those around begin to wonder if she is losing her mind.