Sweet and Lowdown (1999)

A loser of a crook and his wife strike it rich when a botched bank job's cover business becomes a spectacular success.

A director is forced to work with his ex-wife, who left him for the boss of the studio bankrolling his new film. But the night before the first day of shooting, he develops a case of psychosomatic blindness.

Suffering from writer's block and eagerly awaiting his writing award, Harry Block remembers events from his past and scenes from his best-selling books as characters, real and fictional, come back to haunt him.

When he discovers his adopted son is a genius, a New York sportswriter seeks out the boy's birth mother: a prostitute.

The fortunes of a husband and wife differ drastically after they divorce.

Two alternating stories about Melinda's (Mitchell) attempts to straighten out her life.

In 1920s New York, a struggling playwright is forced to cast a mobster's talentless girlfriend in his latest drama in order to get it produced.

An insurance investigator and an efficency expert who hate each other are both hypnotized by a crooked hypnotist with a jade scorpion into stealing jewels.

Sally's parents' marriage breaks up when her father undergoes a mid-life crisis and impulsively weds a prostitute as Sally's own marriage also begins to disintegrate.

The tale of two brothers with serious financial woes. When a third party proposes they turn to crime, things go bad and the two become enemies.

A New York girl sets her father up with a beautiful woman in a shaky marriage while her half sister gets engaged.

Jemimah wants Tilly to have puppies. At any cost.