When Clara receives a mysterious gift at Christmas and goes searching for the key to open it, she's transported to a magical world with the Land of Snowflakes, the Land of Flowers, and the Land of Sweets, but she learns that she must brave the Fourth Realm where the tryrant Mother Ginger lives.

When a single mother and her young daughter move to rural France and open a chocolate shop - with Sunday hours - across the street from the local church, they are met with some resistance from the rigidly moral community. But as soon as the townspeople discover their delicious products, their attitudes begin to change.

Hassan is a culinary ingenue with the gastronomic equivalent of perfect pitch. Displaced from their native India, his family settles in a quaint village in the south of France. They plan to open an Indian restaurant, that is, until Madame Mallory, the owner of a classical French restaurant, gets wind of it. Her icy protests against the new Indian restaurant so near her own escalate to all out war; until Hassan's cooking talent and love for Mme. Mallory's...

Novelist John Irving pens a screenplay from his own best-selling book about an orphan who leaves the only family he's ever known, only to realize that his future is inescapably connected to his past.

It shares the soulful and surprising story of one devoted dog who finds the meaning of his own existence through the lives of the humans he teaches to laugh and love.