خلاصه داستان : در این فیلم 3 نسل از یک خانواده برای حضور در یک مراسم تدفین، در شهر کوچک تگزاس کنار هم جمع می شوند و در طول این مدت که با همدیگر هستند شاهد خنده ها، گریه ها، و حقیقت های تلخ زندگی می باشند...

"Sordid Lives" is about a family in a small Texas town preparing for the funeral of the mother. Among the characters are the grandson trying to find his identity in West Hollywood, the son who has spent the past twenty-three years dressed as Tammy Wynette, the sister and her best friend (who live in delightfully kitschy homes), and the two daughters (one strait-laced and one quite a bit of a loser).

خلاصه داستان : برای رسیدن به رویای خود یعنی حضور در هاروارد، یک نوجوان نازپرورده به عنوان یک مرد جوان سیاهپوست ظاهر می شود تا بورسیه تحصیلی کامل دریافت کند...

A caucasian prospective grad student's affluent family won't pay his way through law school, so he takes tanning pills to darken his skin in order to qualify for an African-American scholarship at Harvard. He soon gets more than he bargained for, as he begins to learn what life is really like for blacks in America.