Victoria Jackson

Joey Boca (Kevin Kline) owns a pizza parlor, and is married to Rosalie (Tracey Ullman). He's also a serial womanizer. Rosalie goes to extremes when she finds he has been cheating. Joey Boca (Kevin Kline) works with Rosalie (Tracey Ullman) in their pizza parlor. She is convinced that he works all of the time for them and her world dissolves when she finds that he has been fooling around for years. Being Catholic, divorce is out of the question, so she, her mother, and her best friend decide to kill him. Hopelessly incompetent as killers, they hire incompetent professionals as they beat, poison, and shoot Joey, who remains oblivious to their attempts. —John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net> In Tacoma, Washington, Joey Boca (Kevin Kline) and his loving wife, Rosalie Boca (Tracey Ullman), have two children, own and operate their own successful pizzeria, and own an apartment building, which Joey manages. All of their customers and tenants seem to love affable Joey, perhaps a little too much, as Joey is a chronic philanderer, something of which Rosalie is completely unaware. Things change when Rosalie secretly catches Joey undeniably cheating on her. After she gets over the initial shock and grief, which makes her want to kill herself, she instead figures a better idea is to have Joey killed. She decides to confide in her mother, handy woman Nadja (Dame Joan Plowright), who lives with them and has not liked Joey for a long time for taking Rosalie for granted, and Devo (River Phoenix), Joey and Rosalie's busboy and cleaner at the pizzeria, who Rosalie knows has always loved her. Unable to do the job to completion, they figure they need some professional help. Who Devo finds to do the job, are druggie cousins Harlan (William Hurt) and Marlon (Keanu Reeves), whose interest is solely in the money, as they have never killed anyone before. Through the entire proceedings, the truth may set them all free. —Huggo

An unemployed visionary becomes the manager of a local television station. The station becomes a success, with all sorts of hilarious sight gags and wacky humor. George Newman is a daydreamer whose hyperactive imagination keeps him from holding a steady job. His uncle decides George would be the perfect man to manage Channel 62, a television station which is losing money and viewers fast. When George replaces the station's reruns with bizarre programs such as "Stanley Spadowski's Clubhouse", "Wheel of Fish" and "Raul's Wild Kingdom", ratings begin to soar again. Mean-spirited and cynical mogul R.J. Fletcher becomes furious that the UHF station is getting better ratings than his network's programming. Because of gambling debts, the uncle is forced to consider selling the station to Fletcher, who would only too happily shut it down (he cannot legally own two stations in the same town). George and his friends organize a 48-hour telethon to raise the money by selling investment stock from Channel 62 to save the town's new favorite station. —MGM/UA Home Video

Amid the widespread fear of AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome), best friends Stacy Hunter (Lea Thompson) and Melissa Halpern (Victoria Jackson) are nervous about being sexually active single women in 1980s Los Angeles, California. Stacy, who has always been interested in sex, lost her virginity in high school before initiating a series of passionate affairs with struggling musicians and artists, many of whom were complete strangers. Melissa, however, remained intimidated by sex until her sophomore year in college, when she persuaded her closest male friend to sleep with her. After a brief, unhappy engagement to a boorish fiance, Melissa yearns to lose her inhibitions around men. Stacy, however, regrets her past promiscuity and takes a vow of celibacy. Determined to find true romance, the women take a vacation to the Oasis health resort, where they begin a rigorous fitness regime. During an evening social gathering, all the guests are randomly partnered up on dates. Melissa is matched with Matthew (Peter Dvorsky), a handsome but serious psychologist conducting research for his next book, while Stacy ends up with Vincent "Vinny" Falcone (Andrew Dice Clay), a bawdy macho man from New Jersey. Over the next few days, a friendly nutritionist named Jamie (Jerry Levine) takes an interest in Melissa, and Stacy develops an attraction to Nick (Stephen Shellen), a physical trainer and former rock musician. During another social event, Jamie flirts with Melissa, but Matthew the psychologist pulls her away from the party to have sex. As they undress, however, Matthew realizes he is not attracted to Melissa enough to become aroused. Hurt and disappointed, Melissa returns to the party, where Nick serenades Stacy with one of his songs. He kisses her onstage, and they spend the night together. Melissa storms off and bumps into Vinny, who is drunk on the beach. After guzzling his flask of liquor, Melissa awakens the next morning with a terrible hangover. She returns to her room and overhears Stacy and Nick discussing the incredible sex they had the night before. Frustrated, Melissa checks out of the resort and hitchhikes to the nearest town, hoping to catch the next bus home. While waiting, she naps on a bench and dreams about Jamie the nutritionist, murmuring his name in her sleep. Suddenly, she stirs awake and is shocked to find him sitting at her feet. Admitting he followed her to ensure she was all right, he convinces her to return to the Oasis. Meanwhile, Stacy learns of her friend's abrupt departure and rushes to catch the afternoon bus. Nick decides to go with her, hoping to pursue his music career in Los Angeles. Realizing Melissa is not at her apartment, Stacy calls the resort. The two friends clarify the misunderstanding, but Melissa decides to stay at the Oasis. Overcoming her fear of intimacy, Melissa has sex with Jamie and experiences her first orgasm. Back in Los Angeles, Stacy realizes she and Nick are not compatible and she frantically drives back to the Oasis in a rental car. In the lobby, she bumps into Vinny, who has been taking romantic advice from a dating handbook and earnestly attempts to engage her in conversation. In her haste, Stacy rebuffs his advances and runs upstairs to find Melissa. She admits that having sex with Nick caused her to mistakenly believe she was in love with him. Melissa reminds her that Nick, a talented but dimwitted musician, is no different than the rest of Stacy's former sexual partners, and encourages her to end the relationship. Before she leaves, Stacy congratulates Melissa on her coupling with Jamie, and they hug. Crushed by repeated rejection, Vinny also decides to leave the resort and asks Stacy for a ride to the bus station. As they drive, Vinny reveals his insecurities about women, and Stacy regrets misjudging him. Back at her apartment, she breaks up with Nick and chooses to stop dating altogether. Sometime later, she receives an introspective letter from Vinny, who claims to have changed since his stay at the Oasis. After six months, Melissa and Jamie move in together, and Stacy remains single. While leaving a New Year's Eve party, Stacy runs into Vinny, now the polite and well-dressed owner of a lucrative limousine business. Although he apologizes for arriving unannounced, he confesses that he drove across the country just to see her. Charmed, Stacy invites him inside for breakfast. Six years later, Stacy and Vinny are happily married with two children. During their annual Christmas party, Stacy and Melissa look lovingly at their partners and embrace.

When a burnt-out shrink needs a temp, a charming escaped convict takes over his practice and radio show. Escaped delinquent John W. Burns, Jr. replaces Dr. Maitlin on a radio show, saying that he is a psychiatrist named Lawrence Baird. His tactless radio show is a hit, and he becomes very popular. But then Dr. Maitlin meets the real Dr. Lawrence Baird at a conference in London.