Out of costume, Charlie is a clean-shaven dandy who, somewhat drunk, visits a dance hall. There the wardrobe girl has three rival admirers: the band leader, one of the musicians, and now Charlie....
Charlie plays a woman, jealous over her husband's interest in another woman. She gets in the way of a cameraman, knocks over a director and a policeman, and gets thrown into a crowd of spectators at a military parade. She attacks her husband and his new flame. The husband throws her off the pier into the harbor....
爱好天文的杰弗里（乔恩•海德 Jon Heder 饰）幼年丧父，这令他和母亲简（黛安•基顿 Diane Keaton 饰）之间更加互相依赖对方，已经29岁的杰弗里仍然和母亲住在一起，在父亲好友书店中的工作早已让他厌倦，但习惯了母亲照顾的杰弗里并没有改变生活的想法。简新近结识了一个男友麦特（杰夫•丹尼尔斯 Jeff Daniels 饰），二人的关系迅速发展，麦特不久就侵入了杰弗里的“领地”，此时刚结识了餐厅驻唱姑娘诺拉的杰弗里拒绝了对方的示意，将自己三年未有约会的记录继续了下去，杰弗里自感将要失去母亲，于是向麦特展开了反击，连诺拉也被卷入了这场家庭战争。杰弗里和麦特的对峙逐步升级，而他不期然体会到了和诺拉相处的快乐，诺拉和麦特的出现，令大男孩杰弗里成长了起来……...
