Comedy / Drama
Five O. Henry stories, each separate. The primary one from the critics' acclaim was "The Cop and the Anthem". Soapy tells fellow bum Horace that he is going to get arrested so he can spend the winter in a nice jail cell. He fails. He can't even accost a woman; she turns out to…


Soapy (segment "The Cop and the Anthem")

Streetwalker (segment "The Cop and the Anthem")

Horace (segment "The Cop and the Anthem")

Barney Woods (segment "The Clarion Call")

Johnny Kernan (segment "The Clarion Call")

Joanna Goodwin (segment "The Last Leaf")

Susan Goodwin (segment "The Last Leaf")

After moving to a new town, troublemaking teen Jim Stark is supposed to have a clean slate, although being the new kid in town brings its own problems. While searching for some stability, Stark forms a bond with a disturbed classmate, Plato, and falls for local girl Judy. However, Judy is the girlfriend of neighborhood tough, Buzz. When Buzz violently confronts Jim and challenges him to a drag race, the new kid's real troubles begin.

The young dude, who can't even make responsible decisions in life, doesn't get along with the group of experienced workers where he started working for a long time. He resents being ridiculed for his not-so-hilarious tattoo, which he passes off as an eagle, but the people around him consider them to be chickens... However, the creators stress that everyone must mature and accept responsibility for their behaviour. However, the exhortative and executionally clumsy work-themed story relies on pre-approved schemes, unable to assert its own idiosyncratic perspective.

Seymour Krelborn is a nerdy orphan working at Mushnik's, a flower shop in urban Skid Row. He harbors a crush on fellow co-worker, Audrey Fulquard, and is berated by Mr. Mushnik daily. One day, Seymour finds a very mysterious unidentified plant which he calls Audrey II. The plant seems to have a craving for blood and soon begins to sing for its supper.

Behrman (segment "The Last Leaf")

Sam "Slick" Brown (segment "The Ransom of Red Chief")

William Smith (segment "The Ransom of Red Chief")

Della (segment "The Gift of the Magi")

Jim (segment "The Gift of the Magi")