Bob Roberts takes place in Pennsylvania in 1990.

Self-loathing screenwriter Charlie Kaufman is hired to write the screenplay adaptation of Susan Orlean's The Orchid Thief.

Vice is narrated by Kurt, a fictitious veteran of the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars.

The film is the story of a depressed man who comes into a town with no future.

In a presidential election set in an alternate 2008, Bud Johnson (Kevin Costner) is a man from Texico, New Mexico, who is coasting through life and has not had a single political thought in his head, while being coaxed by his twelve-year-old daughter Molly (Madeline Carroll) to take more of a serious approach to life.

Sheryl Hoover is an overworked mother of two living in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

The president is caught making advances on an underage girl inside the Oval Office, less than two weeks before the election.

Davis is a successful investment banker at a firm founded and run by his father-in-law Phil.

Dr. Kevin Saunders (played by David Schwimmer) and Dr. William Larson (played by Chris Cooper) pioneer the usage of silicone breast implants.

Marvin Lucas (Peter Boyle), a political election specialist, must find a Democratic candidate to oppose California Senator Crocker Jarmon (Don Porter), a popular Republican.

The film takes place in and around Johnson County, Iowa. Destiny is a 10-year-old foster child in Iowa who gets placed with Ethan and Jill Emmet.

In 2002, Bolivian politician Pedro Castillo (a fictionalized version of presidential candidate Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada) hires an American political consulting firm (based on James Carville's Greenberg Carville Shrum firm) to help him win the 2002 Bolivian presidential election.

Husband and wife Pete and Ellie Wagner, derided by relatives who think they will never have children, consider adoption.

Michigan Governor James Reynolds Pryce (Tom Selleck) is a popular liberal politician who, while running for the office of the President of the United States, finds out to what a great degree his life and career are influenced by the women in his life.

The film tells the story of Phil Campbell (Jason Biggs), a journalist who has just lost his job and gets roped into leading Grant Cogswell's political campaign.

Nick Naylor is a handsome, smooth-talking tobacco spokesman who attempts to influence the act of people in daily life and the vice-president of a tobacco lobby called the "Academy of Tobacco Studies", which has been researching whether smoking tobacco causes lung diseases or not.

Three brothers live at home with their parents and work at the family restaurant that has been managed by their father for the past 25 years.

Nearly 500 residents of the agricultural community of Milagro in the mountains of northern New Mexico face a crisis when politicians and business interests make a backroom deal to usurp the town's water in order to pave the way for a land buy-out.

Introverted 14-year-old Duncan from Albany, New York, reluctantly goes on summer vacation to a beach house in a small seaside town near Cape Cod, Massachusetts, with his mother, Pam; her wealthy boyfriend, Trent; and Trent's stuck-up daughter, Steph.

Richard "Dicky" Pilager, the dim-witted scion of a powerful political dynasty, is running for Governor of Colorado.