An examination of the effect of supermarket giant Wal-Mart on local communities in the US, with brief detours to the UK, and to investigate Wal-Mart's use of sweatshop labour in China.

Confetti, a bridal magazine, holds a competition to find the couple with the most original wedding idea of the year. The finalists include Matt (Freeman) and Sam (Stevenson) whose theme is a Broadway musical, Josef (Mangan) and Isabelle (Meredith MacNeill) go with a a tennis theme, while Robert Webb and Olivia Colman literally let it all hang out as naturists Michael and Joanna.

Washed up and drunken cop Jack Mosley (Willis) is given a dead-end task by his lieutenant: to escort con Eddie Bunker (Mos Def) the short 16 blocks from his holding cell at the police station to the courthouse, to testify in a case.

Andy Sargent, convinced that he must earn some quick money to impress his son, persuades his friends in the small town of Butterface Fields to help him with his latest scheme: to make an amateur porn

Fading movie star Howard Spence rides off the set of his latest Western, in the midst of an apparent drink and drug-fuelled mid-life crisis. After visiting his mother (Saint), he next tracks down an old flame (Lange), and discovers he may have fathered a child.