伍迪·艾伦自导自编自演作品，藉由一场派对，呈现出人们善变的情绪，以及复杂性事的轻喜剧。
洛拉（琳达·达内尔 Linda Darnell 饰）同老板波特（保罗·道格拉斯 Paul Douglas 饰）结了婚，婚后，洛拉才发现波特对自己的海誓山盟全是谎言，他不过将自己当做了摇钱树。瑞塔（Ann Sothern饰）则要强悍的多，凭借着剧本写作收入不菲，甚至快要赶上了丈夫乔治（柯克·道格拉斯 Kirk Douglas 饰）。洛拉（琳达·达内尔 Linda Darnell 饰）拥有过人的美貌，却依然生活在怀疑和困惑之中。 某日，三位太太带着孩子们正在野餐，一封未写收件人的信不期而至，写信的是名叫艾迪（西莱斯特·霍姆 Celeste Holm 饰）的女人，信上说她即将和三位太太其中一位的丈夫远走高飞，而三个女人却并不知道究竟是谁被背叛了。
影片以17世纪马哈拉施特拉邦马拉地军事领袖塔纳吉·马卢萨雷的生平为基础。
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?
