迈克（保罗·吉亚玛提 Paul Giamatti 饰）是一名小镇律师，在帮一位老年痴呆症老头里奥（波特·杨 Burt Young 饰）打监护权官司时，阴差阳错自己成了里奥的监护人。光照顾老头还不够，里奥的外孙凯尔（阿历克斯·夏夫尔 Alex Shaffer 饰）又不期而 至，他因为和吸毒的母亲不和来投靠外公，迈克一家只好收留他，并安排他到附近高中念书。迈克同时还兼任该所高中摔跤队教练，很快发现凯尔是个很有天赋的摔跤手。局面似乎很“双赢”，里奥和凯尔得到生活上的照顾，迈克的队伍里多了个主力，每个月还有1500元监护收入补贴家用。 但平衡因为凯尔母亲辛迪（梅兰妮·林斯基 Melanie Lynskey 饰）到来而打破，她想夺回里奥的监护权，母亲来了，凯尔也没理由再和迈克一家生活在一起，但只有凯尔明白，他母亲对他和祖父丝毫没有关爱，一切目的只是祖父的钱…
每个人的青春期都或多或少的有过迷茫，躁动，愤怒和困惑。电影主人公贾斯汀（卢•泰勒•普奇 Lou Taylor Pucci饰）有着吮拇指的幼稚习惯。贾斯汀一直想要克服这个难缠的习惯，其实这个习惯只是一个青少年青春期困惑的一个缩影，其他的困惑还包括性和家庭等。在改变这个习惯的意愿下隐藏的，是贾斯汀对成长的不自觉的渴望。每个人成年人都可以在这部电影中找到自己曾经的影子，这个故事中的严肃，真挚，诙谐，都是那段青春时光不可抵抗的魅力。
霍阿满与女友薛丽在一次郊游中不慎摔下 崖，使年轻、聪明、灵活甚至狡黠的阿满 在特定的时间范围里思维和心态变成六岁 孩子，对自己是个记者，说过不少假话而 羞愧万分。 阿满不做调查研究，把一个早已倒闭两年 的乡镇企业，写成“一颗明星闪闪亮”的新闻 报道，引来了四方参观团、检查团、拉赞 助团体在黄家镇的云集，给地方政府造成 了极坏后果。 影片无情地鞭苔了报社钟主任、黄镇长等 人顾及面子知错不改的错误思想，歌颂了 以市委刘书记为首、幼儿教师及几个年轻 实习记者坚持事实，敢讲真话的优秀品 质，积极倡导了我党一贯坚持的事实求是 的工作作风。 同时，影片假借阿满对做六岁儿童那天的 怀念，表达了人们在现实生活中渴望拥有 真诚、善良、美好、纯洁的愿望，具有强 烈的现实教育意义。
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?
这是一部讲述发生在办公室里的罗曼蒂克爱情故事……
