Plot
When college student Mike DeVries accrues a sizable collections fee, he worries he cannot afford to continue paying for school. With the help of his three comically troublesome dorm-mates (Barrett, Gary, and Keyes) a scheme is devised to scam money from the university treasury. Their plan: Register a dozen fake university clubs, pocket the start up money, and abandon the clubs. When the dean of the university catches wind of their scheme, he offers them a choice: Maintain and establish their crazy list of campus clubs, or face expulsion. Hijinx, and hilarity ensue! Predecessor to the 2010 award winning film 'The Beekeepers'.

Plot
Harry Stone (Danny Aiello), a formerly top notch director, has had three disastrous movies in a row. Facing dismissal from the top perch of Hollywood and finacial ruin from back taxes, he is forced to take on a very commercial and, he believes, ridiculous movie. Now as he faces the film's release and, he believes, another total flop which will complete his ruin, he meets up with his son and daughter and his former wives (which includes Dyan Cannon) to examine his life and his future. The film examines the turmoil a movie director goes through with a film release. His agent (Jerry Stiller) assures him that he has a hit, while those around him wince (as does the audience) at the thought of the movie within the movie. The movie is "The Pickle", a supposedly social satire where a bunch of super-white kids from Kansas take vegetables into space via a super cucumber and land on an Earth-like planet where everyone lives only on beef and die at age 49. As shown in the excerpts of the film, Little Richard stars as the President of the planet who has 6 months to live, Ally Sheedy heads up the Kansas contingent, and Griffin Dunne is the President's aide who falls in love with Sheedy.

Keywords: 1940s, agent, aging, behind-the-scenes, blood-pressure, boyfriend-girlfriend-relationship, brooklyn-new-york-city, career, depression, drink