An English professor meets his long-time writing idol, who turns out to be a surly and irritable man — nothing like the majestic intellectual the professor had envisioned.

A biased umpire, a tightly-strung coach, and a fastball to the head make for a chaotic and messy Little League championship game.

A young man's romantic partner dies in a tragic boating accident, and he is grief-stricken. When he's offered the chance to clone his deceased partner, to bring her back exactly as she was before, he jumps at the opportunity -- but the resulting clone is not quite whom he had expected.