乐维（伯特·兰卡斯特 Burt Lancaster 饰）拥有一个人人羡慕的晚年，每年过生日的那一天，他儿孙们总计十八口人都会齐聚在乐维的身边，为他庆祝这个富有意义的节日。虽然眼前的一切看上去是这样的美好，但乐维亦有时会陷入由于之中，怀念起和已经逝去的妻子之间那再也无法重现的旧日时光。 波罗（约翰·格洛弗 John Glover 饰）是乐维的外甥，在所有孩子里，似乎只有他懂得乐维心中的所思所想，他甚至能够感受到，乐维非常希望在死后能够被火葬在大海之中的愿望。乐维今年的生日很快就要到了，晚辈们聚在一起讨论要送给他什么礼物，一艘隐藏在杂草种的被废弃的小船吸引了乐维的注意。

During World War II, hard-luck farmer Colvis Nevels leaves his rural Kentucky home to take a factory job in bustling Detroit. Reluctantly accompanying Colvis is his long-suffering wife, Gertie, a talented woodcarver set in her traditional ways. When the perils of city life and Colvis' reckless squandering of money send the Nevels into precarious financial straits, Gertie starts a business making hand-carved dolls in order to provide for her family.

The true story of a young woman named Sybil, whose childhood was so harrowing to her that she developed at least 13 different personalities.

The reinvigorated elderly group that left Earth comes back to visit their relatives. Will they all decide to go back to the planet where no one grows old, or will they be tempted to remain on Earth?

On their way to start a new life at a sheep farm in rural Virginia, the Turner family are halted by a wreck on the highway that has claimed the life of a truck driver. Spotting the trucker's now-abandoned collie on the side of the road, they take pity on the dog and adopt her. As the city family copes with the change to rural life, including a feud with a neighboring farm family who resent the city interlopers, the ever-loyal Lassie helps them adjust to their new surroundings.

Walter Lee Younger is a young man struggling with his station in life. Sharing a tiny apartment with his wife, son, sister and mother, he seems like an imprisoned man. Until, that is, the family gets an unexpected financial windfall.