阿巴贡(路易·德·菲耐斯 Louis de Funès 饰)是个人尽皆知的吝啬鬼,早年丧妻的他带着女儿艾莉丝(Claire Dupray 饰)和儿子克莱昂特(皮埃尔·奥赛达特 Pierre Aussedat 饰)过着平静的生活。靠放高利贷为生的阿巴贡将辛苦赚来的金币埋在了花园里,他将自家花园的地下视为最保险和最安全的所在。 阿巴贡一直在追求一个名叫玛丽安娜(Madeleine Barbulée 饰)的年轻姑娘,没想到玛丽安娜却和克莱昂特两情相悦,两人在花园里幽会的时候被阿巴贡逮了个正着,这让阿巴贡十分气恼。祸不单行,阿巴贡埋在地下的金币失窃了,克莱昂特向父亲承诺他将查出盗窃金币的罪魁祸首,但作为报酬,他必须祝福他与玛丽安娜的爱情。
琼(凯瑟琳·特纳 Kathleen Turner 饰)是一名小说家,创作过许许多多充满了冒险和刺激的故事,销量十分可观。可是尽管如此,琼自己的生活却向来四平八稳波澜不惊,在内心里,她十分希望能够和自己笔下的主人公那样,来一场奇遇。 机会很快就来临了,某日,琼收到了一封来自哥伦比亚的来信,原来,琼的姐姐伊莱恩(玛丽艾伦泰勒 Mary Ellen Trainor 饰)被宝石大盗艾拉(Zack Norman 饰)和纳尔夫(丹尼·德维托 Danny DeVito 饰)绑架了,他们所要的并非赎金,而是一张藏宝图。心急如焚的琼立刻启程赶往哥伦比亚。在那里,琼结识了英明神武胆识过人的男子杰克(迈克尔·道格拉斯 Michael Douglas 饰),两人结伴继续前进。
Gray-haired furniture retailer Paul Winkelmann still has his dinner cooked and his laundry done by his mother. He spends his evenings playing Scrabble with Mama's friends and discussing the role of women in society in his carnival club. When he meets psychologist Margarete Tietze, Pussi finally begins to rebel against his dominant mother.
This kicks off with the murder of one Adolf Schwartz (who bears a striking resemblance to another famous Adolf) by placing a ravenous piranha fish in his bathtub. Who did it No-one knows or cares, as they're too busy being distracted by busty Margo Winchester, who hitch-hikes into# town and gets involved with all the local men. It all ends with a series of complicated plot twists that reveal that just about everyone is really someone else. And if it gets too confusing, Russ Meyer helpfully arranges for a one- woman nude Greek chorus to pop up at intervals to explain what's going on.
In this very late 60's irreverent, almost anarchic low-budget film, Brian De Palma defines more of his strange, given Hitchcock-like fascination of voyeurism, and attacks the issues of the day. The most prominent of which, both cringe-inducing and just plain funny, is when he focuses on the black-power movement (a black woman handing out fliers asking white people 'do you know what it's like to be black'), which is something that could only work for that time and place, not before or now. But one of the key things to the interest in the film is 27 year old Robert De Niro (not his first or last film with the director), who plays this character who sits in a room looking out through his telescope at women in their rooms, setting up phony deals, and in the end basically throwing bombs. Those who have said that De Niro can't act and just is himself in every movie should see this movie, if only out of some minor curiosity. A couple of times in the film it's actually not funny, as when there's a disturbance in a black-power meeting (filmed in a grainer, rougher style than the rest of the film). In the end it's capped off with a rambling monologue in an interview that tops De Niro's in King of Comedy. It's pretty obvious where De Palma's career would go after this, into slightly more mainstream Hollywood territory, but all of his trademarks are here; the dark, almost nail-biting comedy, the perfectly timed style of voyeurism, and interesting usage of locals. Think if De Palma and De Niro did a Monty Python film, only even more low-budget and in its New York way just as off-the-hinges, and you got Hi, Mom! It also contains an eccentric and funny soundtrack. imdb comment