故事讲述前海洛因瘾君子丹尼尔·莱格参与了一项毒品交易，以错误的理由为错误的人提供帮助。当交易失败时，丹尼尔被扔进泰国监狱，并被判处100年徒刑。当他试图在曼谷被监禁时幸存下来时，他被定罪的消息引起了环球邮报记者维克托·马拉雷克的注意，他决定追捕负责对丹尼尔进行错误指控的阴暗卧底警察。
家里经营自行车行的科沙夫（阿克谢·库玛尔AkshayKumar饰）是一个大龄单身青年，他的老爸专横独大，出于迷信要求儿子必须娶一个一只手上有两根拇指的妻子，而为了所谓的黄道吉日还专门安排科沙夫娶了一头母牛为妻。科沙夫虽然唯唯诺诺，可是无时无刻不期待美好爱情的出现。偶然机缘，他邂逅了婆罗门出身的知识女性贾娅（布米·佩德卡尔BhumiPednekar饰）。最初的龃龉和误会过后，这对身份地位和生活背景都有着巨大差异的男女越走越近，最终喜结连理。然而好景不长，新婚次日贾娅就发现一个严重问题。出于宗教信仰，科沙夫的家里根本没有厕所，包括女性在内必须要去很远的野外解决问题。为了自己的合法权益，贾娅和丈夫以及其家人展开了旷日持久的战争……
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。
故事发生在1955年的法国南特，彼时那里正在进行一场轰轰烈烈的工人罢工运动，而钢铁工人弗朗西斯（理查·贝里 Richard Berry 饰）就是参与其中的一员。弗朗西斯租下了寡妇玛格特（达尼尔·达黎欧 Danielle Darrieux 饰）手里的一间房子，玛格特虽然是资产阶级，但是却对工人阶级充满了同情，时长向他们伸出援手。 弗朗西斯有一个相恋多年的女友瓦雷特（Fabienne Guyon 饰），虽然瓦雷特腹中已经怀上了他的孩子，但这个冷漠残酷的男人还是选择抛弃了她，转而将注意力投向了一个名叫艾迪斯（多米尼克·桑达 Dominique Sanda）的女人。艾迪斯嫁给了一个富有的商人，可婚后的生活却令她苦不堪言，为了排遣内心的愤懑，艾迪斯偷偷从事着妓女的职业。
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?
