Dennis is a likeable loser who ditched his pregnant fiancée, Libby, at the altar 5 years ago. Now he is desperate to show that he's changed and so pits his feeble physical prowess against Libby's new boyfriend and serial marathonist, Whit, in a race... but Dennis needs to get into shape fast! Getting help from unexpected quarters, his landlord Mr Ghoshdashtidar and his feckless best mate Gordon, Dennis's credibility is now seriously exposed. Under such scrutiny can the underdog triumph? "Run Fat find out more...

It's the off-season at the lonely Beauregard Hotel in Bournemoth, and only the long-term tenants are still in residence. Life is stirred up, however, when the beautiful Ann Shankland arrives to see her alcoholic ex-husband, John Malcolm, who is secretly engaged to Pat Cooper, the woman who runs the hotel. Meanwhile, snobbish Mrs Railton-Bell discovers that the kindly if rather doddering Major Pollock, played by David Niven, who won an Oscar for his performance, a retired officer who likes to find out more...