Everybody Just Stay Calm

The Devil wants to hire a publicist to change his image but a phone call to his mother reveals even the devil has a mother who let let him do what he wants.

Celena and Charlie live together in L.A., and both of them want to make it in the movies. At a Hollywood party, Charlie manages to grab himself a part in a film, and he does it by stealing material from Celena. Then he discards her, like a used tissue. Not only does she get mad, she gets even.

The camera focuses up close on a series of unnamed women as they talk to their men. In every case, even though we don't hear what the men are saying, we know exactly what line and lie they're pitching. The women, who are desperate for affection and a relationship, apologize, bend over backwards to accommodate, cooperate with every male fantasy, tolerate every male insecurity, ignore infidelities, and pick up the check.

Seven (or six - depending on the version) short stories of conquest, desperation and the will to overcome.

Actress Illeana Douglas works at a supermarket where Daryl Hannah continually slacks off, nearly drooling fans stalk her, and Jeff Goldblum comes in to shop for pastries.