San Francisco Bay Area poet, Janice Mirikitani, gives personal reflections on her experiences as a Japanese American woman. Interspersed with readings of her own poetry, the documentary paints an image of an Asian American literary trailblazer – a survivor of internment during World War II and a member of the Third World Women’s Collective – who broke ground and paved the way for future Asian American women artists.
Taking a break from their dreary lives, close friends Thelma and Louise embark on a short weekend trip that ends in unforeseen incriminating circumstances.
Sixty year old Max is having something of a middle-age crisis. His marriage seems to go nowhere as the passion, tenderness and happiness vanished when their daughter moved out.
Claude, a militant anarchist, is caught stealing and is shot by a policeman while fleeing the scene. Dodo, a hairdresser, is hit by one of the stray bullets.
Jimmy Burke and his friends steal 10 million from the Lufthansa office in New York. The FBI has no idea who the thieves are until Burke girlfriend gives them a hint.
In Los Angeles, a gang of bank robbers who call themselves The Ex-Presidents commit their crimes while wearing masks of Reagan, Carter, Nixon and Johnson.
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