A French general during World War I risks the lives of his men to take a German fortification in order to bolster his own ego and threatens them when they fail.
A small-town Southern sheriff and an African-American police detective from Philadelphia reluctantly join forces to solve a wealthy man's murder in Mississippi.
During World War II, two Marines are assigned to protect two Navajo who were chosen so that they could use their original language to encode radio messages.
A businessman who is trying to get home for the holidays is paired up with a loutish salesman who turns his journey into a three-day stretch of errors.