As a group of high school students prepare for their fall production of Macbeth, the pressure and drive for fame leads a few of them to spiral out of control and become consumed by the treacherous Shakespearean characters they portray.

A recently dumped divorcee in his late-twenties sets out to plan a wedding-sized divorced party in an attempt to get his life back on track.

When political turmoil forces a British-Caribbean dictator to flee his island nation, he seeks refuge and hides with a rebellious teenage girl in suburban America, and ends up teaching the young teen how to start a revolution and overthrow the "mean girls" in her high school.