A reluctant grandfather had the chore of taking his grandson, Edward out to lunch. Grandpa is a foul-mouthed old curmudgeon and Edward is a bible loving neurotic mess. They're stuck spending the day together and they hardly know each other. When grandpa accidentally says the F-word to a passing car, he discovers something peculiar about his grandson. He is tormented by swear words. Edward becomes a shivering, quivering wreck whenever someone swears. Grandpa is bewildered and amused by all this and takes it upon himself to cure what he thinks is a very unfortunate ailment.
A waitress, desperate to fulfill her dreams as a restaurant owner, is set on a journey to turn a frog prince back into a human being, but she has to face the same problem after she kisses him.
Nikki Blue is a dancer at a strip club hidden along a back road in rural New England. Further down the road, Alice, a burnt-out, neurotic college grad with no particular ambitions, spends her days working at a roadside fossil and rock shop.
It's Boxing Day and already Karen is making New Year resolutions - chiefly for others - and the family have been burgled,though selectively,causing Sue to cheat on the insurance claim.
This elegant romance is the least-known work of the mature Giacomo Puccini . The story concerns a kept woman who defies convention to chase a dream of romantic love with an earnest, if naïve, young man.
