The Hucksters

An adman attempts to rebuild his shattered life after suffering a nervous breakdown.

A car magnate watches his personal and professional life hit the skids because of his business and romantic indiscretions.

When her rather explicit copy is rejected, magazine journalist Kate is asked by her editor to come up with an article on loving relationships instead, and to do so by the end of the day. This gets Kate thinking back over her own various experiences, and to wondering if she is in much of a position to write on the subject.

Womanising, right-wing Dan Hanson and quiet, liberal Lorie Bryer work for the Baltimore Sun. Rivals for the job of new writer of a vacant column, the paper ends up instead printing their very different opinions alongside each other, which leads to a similarly combative local TV show. At the same time their initial indifference to each other looks like it may evolve into something more romantic.

A ghostwriter finds himself romantically involved with his current wife, a married woman and his long-vanished wife.