Angela, supposedly reformed and living under an assumed surname, is working at a summer camp. However, when the campers start misbehaving, she soon reverts to her old ways.
杰克(小罗伯特·唐尼 Robert Downey Jr. 饰)仗着自己英俊的外表整日沉迷于美色之中并引以为傲。一次偶然中,杰克在酒吧中邂逅了名为兰迪(莫利·林沃德 Molly Ringwald 饰)的女孩,他深深的被这个自信又热情的姑娘所吸引,两人一拍即合相谈甚欢。然而次日,兰迪对杰克的态度却来了个一百八十度的大转弯,百思不得其解的杰克找到了兰迪的住所,才发现兰迪的父亲是一个赌鬼,背负的巨额债务。
为了给父亲还债,兰迪不得不向富翁费尔南多(鲍勃·冈顿 Bob Gunton 饰)寻求帮助,费尔南多要求兰迪那她的身体来交换。杰克提出自己可以帮助兰迪,但遭到了后者的拒绝,兰迪远赴大西洋城,想在赌桌上试试手气。
侦探乔(丹·艾克罗伊德 Dan Aykroyd 饰)和斯特雷贝克(汤姆·汉克斯 Tom Hanks 饰)被任命调查一宗发生在美国洛杉矶的命案。很快,一位名叫马兹(杰克·奥哈罗兰 Jack O'Halloran 饰)的男子落入了法网,他就是那个在案发现场留下了名片的人。
乔和斯特雷贝克顺藤摸瓜,查到了一个名叫PAGAN的邪教组织,在该组织举行献祭仪式时,乔和搭档救下了即将被当做祭品杀死的女子康尼(亚历姗卓拉·保罗 Alexandra Paul 饰)。康尼指认了绑架她的幕后黑手——当地德高望重的牧师乔纳森(克里斯托弗·普卢默 Christopher Plummer 饰),就在乔准备将其捉拿归案之际,他们的行动却遭到了警察局局长的阻挠。
人人都知道乔安娜(歌蒂·韩 Goldie Hawn 饰)是个富有的女人,同样人尽皆知的,还有她那尖酸刻薄的坏脾气。每一日,乔安娜都和丈夫格兰特(爱德华·赫曼 Edward Herrmann 饰)待在他们那极尽奢华的游艇上,挥霍着时间和钱财。迪安(库尔特·拉塞尔 Kurt Russell 饰)是个平凡的木匠,在一次纠纷中,他不仅没有拿到乔安娜所承诺的报酬,还被她从船上推了下去。
几日之后,迪安发现了一则新闻,一个落水失忆的女人正在寻找她的亲人,而这个女人不是别人,正是之前羞辱过他的乔安娜。经过一番盘算,迪安把早已经被丈夫抛弃的乔安娜接回了家,这样他不仅可以收回她曾经欠他的工钱,他的四个孩子也能得到照料。尽管失忆的乔安娜对自己的处境充满了怀疑,但她还是努力的做着本职工作,在日积月累之间,她和迪安之间产生了真挚的感情。
为了和家人一同庆祝感恩节,广告商人尼尔(史蒂夫·马丁 Steve Martin 饰)坐上了飞往芝加哥的飞机,在机场,一个名叫德尔(约翰·坎迪 John Candy 饰)的粗俗男子让他无法忍受,不幸的是,他们在飞机上竟毗邻而坐。本以为忍过两个半小时的旅程就可逃出生天,没想到暴风雪的袭来让飞机更改了航线。
在误打误撞之中,尼尔和德尔住进了同一个房间,屋漏偏逢连夜雨,小偷的造访又让他们丢掉了所有的家当,无奈之下,两人只得搭火车回家。随着时间的流逝,尼尔发现德尔的个性并非表面上看起来的那般教人无法忍受,两人的关系也渐渐亲密起来。可是,事情并没有就此结束,在一次又一次的意外中,尼尔觉得家离自己越来越远。
故事分成三個章節:主要的章節由高達親自飾演導演,正要趕乘飛機,在24小時內把一部電影的菲林交給監製;同時一隊二人流行電子音樂組合,不斷排練歌曲,最後在路上表演;另一邊廂,愚笨的大肥佬捲入一宗事件,被神秘女人密切監視,最後更被拘捕。三段故事看似毫無關連,實際是高達以電影來討論電影製作和藝術創作的重要。片名看似帶有弦外之音,就像高達暗示,假如監製或其他人要干擾導演的藝術創作,就索性我行我素,忠於自己的道路好了。這大概亦示範了高達如何純熟地運用電影媒體來做評論。
A film in three chapters: Godard plays the director in the main chapter, rushing to catch a plane to pass the negatives to his producer within 24 hours; an electronic duo keeps rehearsing for their roadshow; a clumsy fat man gets involved in an incident, and is arrested after being watched by a mysterious woman. Seemingly unrelated events, Godard is discussing the importance of film producer and artistic creativity. Godard is making the statement that if a producer or anyone interferes with creativity, it is better for the artist to go one's own way. A showpiece of how Godard uses the film media as his critical essay.
Three sisters with quite different personalities and lives reunite when Babe, the youngest, has just shot her husband. Oldest sister Lenny takes care of their grandfather and is turning into an old maid. Meg, who aspires to make it in moxia.cc Hollywood as a singer and actress, has had a wild, man-filled life. Their reunion is joyful but also stirs up much tension.
A highly intelligent, but accelerated nerdish boy falls in love (for the first time) with an older girl and goes through several obstacles after another to gain not only her heart, but the acceptance and respect he has longed for his whole life.
Nora Ephron's autobiographical novel chronicling the breakup of her marriage to investigative journalist Carl Bernstein (ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN) is adapted for the big screen by director Mike Nichols and solidly acted by Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson. Rachel Samstat (Streep) is Ephron's stand-in, a New York food writer who falls for and marries Washington political columnist Mark Forman (Nicholson) despite her initial misgivings. And it isn't long before a second pregnancy, separate homes, and the return of Mark's womanizing places a strain on the marriage that results in a bitter divorce and inspires Rachel's cynical musings on the nature of love, sex, and relationships.