由于受不了严谨的校纪校规，女孩伊莎贝尔（凯特·哈德森 Kate Hudson 饰）毅然离开了电影学院，过上了她所渴望的自由生活。伊莎贝尔的姐姐罗茜妮（娜奥米·沃茨 Naomi Watts 饰）定居于法国巴黎，身怀六甲的她惨遭画家丈夫查尔斯（梅尔维尔·珀波 Melvil Poupaud 饰）的背叛，愤怒的罗茜妮决定离婚，她给伊莎贝尔写了一封信，希望自己的妹妹能够来到自己身边，支持和陪伴她度过这一段艰难时期。 一次偶然中，伊莎贝尔结识了名叫埃德加（蒂埃里·莱尔米特 Thierry Lhermitte 饰）的法国外交官，尽管埃德加已经是一个七十岁高龄的老人了，但伊莎贝尔依旧拜倒在了他的慷慨大方和风度翩翩之中。尽管伊莎贝尔和埃德加之间的恋情并不被他人所看好，但伊莎贝尔依然坚持着自己的想法和信念，直到某一日，她发现，埃德加竟然是自己的亲戚。
杰克．莱蒙与沃尔特．马修这一对最佳喜剧搭档在完成了两集东山再起的《见色忘友》之后，再度携手走进女人堆，竟然在一艘开往加勒比海的邮轮上当伴舞男郎，希望钓上富婆财色兼收。华特依旧饰演诡计多端的查理戈登，他赌马欠了一屁股债，乃游说丧妻的连襟赫伯苏利文出海旅游轻松一下。赫伯不明所以答应了，上船后才知道查理已签约伴舞，虽被摆了一道也只好打鸭子上架。
城南是个黑手党活动盛行的地方，有两个帮派，一个住在AliBhai，控制古鲁和莫娜等男女巫的活动，另一支由当地雇佣兵组成，两派都对当地的包工头和土地占有者收保护费、或直接占有他们的地产，当然若有不从，则施以暴力，敲诈甚至杀死他们。长官Mohamed Maideen Khan来做城南的执政者了，他开始清理这些黑帮……华丽火爆的性感歌舞........
纽约百老汇，戏剧导演Oscar Jaffe（约翰·巴里摩尔 John Barrymore 饰）捧红了女演员Lily Garland（卡洛·朗白 Carole Lombard 饰），两人成为百老汇票房保证，同时也是一对情侣。合作三年后，Lily因为受不了Oscar对她私人生活的过度干预，偷偷跑去了好莱坞演电影。Oscar一怒之下起用了新的女演员，可惜票房很差，还在芝加哥欠下了债。在从芝加哥回纽约的二十世纪列车上，Oscar机缘巧合又和Lily在同一列火车上。Oscar试图挽回Lily，不管是爱情还是演戏，但Lily已经有了另外的恋人，也对重新和Oscar合作不感兴趣。这列火车上碰巧有一位脑子不大好使的大富翁，Oscar利用这个富翁给他开了张支票，试图以这张支票来让Lily签了演戏的合约。然而这位所谓“大富翁”原来不过是个精神病人，Oscar手中的支票毫无价值。心灰意冷的Oscar决定开枪自尽......
主角悍女Katarina出名泼辣，生男勿近，而她的妹妹Bianca却是一位温柔娴婌的万人迷。做父亲的惨成祸心，或许受不了大女儿Katarina的气焰凌迟，他居然徇私剥夺妹妹谈恋爱的自由，直至姐姐嫁得出为止。那些倾慕妹妹的众生皆因此头疼，苦思后度出一计，就是找一隻替死鬼娶姐姐。Katarina性格暴躁、脾气倔强，找不到任何一个敢娶她的男人，在心不甘情不愿的情况下，她嫁给了高大结实的大胡子男人Petruchio。Petruchio一心要把Katarina训练成百依百顺的好妻子，所以他采取了“以暴制暴”的方式，最后终于驯服了Katarina的一身傲骨。 Franco Zeffirelli's adaptation of William Shakespeare's play about love and marriage. Shy Bianca and mean-spirited Katarina, are two daughters of the rich merchant, Baptista. Though Bianca is being courted by a number of young men, Baptista announces that she may not marry until Katarina is wed. None of the men in town are willing to marry Katarina, so Bianca remains unwed, until a scoundrel called Petruchio appears.
Siskel and Ebert once ran a special show entitled "Movies I'm Embarrassed to Admit I Liked." I suppose that if I composed such a list of guilty pleasures, this one would be one of them . . . but upon reflection, it's really a lot better than that. Fifteen year-old science prodigy Mitch (Gabe Jarret) is recruited by ambitious college professor William Atherton (in yet another of his patented roles as a loathsome character) to work on the professor's prize laser project, not knowing that the prof is really developing a government weapon. Along the way, Mitch is befriended by Chris (Val Kilmer), another prodigy a few years his senior who teaches the Mitch how to loosen up. This could have degenerated into nothing more than just another teen revenge comedy, but there's so much more: the dialogue is laced with sharp wit there are some lovely scenes that have nothing to do with the story yet are carefully set up, almost as blackouts (e.g., Mitch goes to a lecture at which a few students have left tape recorders instead of attending later, at another lecture there are more tape recorders than students and, in a final scene, one large tape recorder gives the lecture to a room populated by nothing but other small recorders!) and throw-away scenes that make you want to stop and back up the tape (e.g., Chris off-handedly cutting a slice off a bar of solid nitrogen to make a slug for the coffee machine). It's also one of the few movies to boast the presence of the memorable Michelle Meyerink -- as Jordan, the "girl-nerd" who made being smart and female something to be emulated. And there's Tears for Fears great song, "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" providing the perfect coda as the closing credits begin to roll . . . . Yes: really now, what's there to be embarrassed about?
