Casanova, the fabled romantic, strives to discover the real meaning of love after failing to win the affection of a particular Venetian woman.

Dr. Alfred Jones, a London fisheries scientist with a satisfactory, if not exciting, life, scoffs when he is asked to participate in a project to create a salmon river in Yemen, but, pressured by the government, he agrees to meet with the fabulously wealth sheik sponsoring the plan and the sheik's lovely young real estate agent, and begins to believe the impossible project might just work.

Pathological liar, Clifford Irving, stages a complex hoax. In the 1970's Irving managed to fool a major publisher and LIFE magazine into thinking he was writing an authorized biography of Howard Hughes. Irving and his best friend and partner, Dick Susskind, go to extreme lengths to pull off the hair-brained scheme. The more outrageous the lies they concoct, the more believable they become and the more money gets thrown at them. Inspired by the unbelievable...

Aside from a secret affair with a housewife (Mary Steenburgen), Gilbert Grape (Johnny Depp) spends his days stocking shelves at a grocery store, caring for his mentally handicapped brother (Leonardo DiCaprio), and holding together a large family headed by Mama, a former beauty queen whose weight tops 500 pounds. But just when Gilbert thinks nothing will ever change, a beautiful stranger (Juliette Lewis) arrives on the scene, capturing his heart. Nominated...