影片描写一名美国商人奉公司之命来到满格兰海岸洽谈收购土地兴建石油工厂，当地的风土文物和居民的起居作息跟他这个城市人很不协调，让他觉得此行无聊透顶。不料公司总裁亲到小镇视察后改变主意，想在当开办一所天文学院。商人回到美国的寓所后，也忍不住回想起一望无际的满格兰海岸。
素有「新浪潮祖母」之称的导深安妮华达，以拟迈化及不受考据限制的嘉剧风格，来表达「电影一百周年」这个严肃的主题。已经一百岁的电影先生有感于生命稍纵即逝，遂雇用年轻女孩卡蜜帮助他对一百年来的电影纪事做一番回顾。家里就是一座博物馆的电影先生，对电影如数家珍，完全沉溺在往的的电影情怀中。卡蜜除了每天接受电影洗礼外，更因电影先生的关系，经常接触到许多大明星，如马斯楚安尼、杰哈德巴狄厄、凯萨琳丹妮芙、劳勃狄尼洛等，甚至连亚兰德伦听到电影先生病了都特地赶来看他……
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故事围绕一个圣诞节蛋糕展开，讲述了战争年代天主教女子学院里人性的纯真、贪婪和幻想。“pupil”一词来源于拉丁语“pupilla”，即小女孩。
喜剧名为《准许》（Permission），讲述了一对情侣通过各自与别人睡觉来巩固他们俩的关系。 《准许》由Brian Crano自编自导，影片的主人公安娜（丽贝卡·豪）和威尔（丹·史蒂文斯）是一对多年的情侣，他们是初恋情人、又都是对方的初吻和第一次，关系十分稳固，但又缺乏激情。 安娜三十岁生日派对上，威尔准备求婚，但被他们喝醉的朋友打断，朋友醉醺醺的建议他们先别急着结婚、安定下来，而是去外面看看其他的“风景”。说者无意，听者有心，安娜真的心动了，于是和威尔商议开始“实验”：即在一夫一妻框架下，自由与其他人发生性关系。
圣诞前夕，斯代尔斯（帕瑞克•雷纳Patrick Renna 饰）为哥哥布克（克里斯•欧文 Chris Owen 饰）找一个应召女郎，但是布克真正喜欢的却是瑞切尔（盖博•卡尔 Gable Carr 饰）。法国留学生多米尼克（林赛•塔波特Lindsey Talbott 饰）因与应召女郎（博蒂•布里斯Boti Bliss 饰）同名，惨遭折磨…… 其间，艾德里安（卡梅隆•理查德森 Cameron Richardson 饰）拒绝了纽玛的求爱；格利（玛瑞安•德菲诺Marieh Delfino 饰）被错被当成布莱尼，卷入黑帮交易。越来越多的误会，让大家度过了一个令人啼笑皆非的圣诞节……
In this very late 60's irreverent, almost anarchic low-budget film, Brian De Palma defines more of his strange, given Hitchcock-like fascination of voyeurism, and attacks the issues of the day. The most prominent of which, both cringe-inducing and just plain funny, is when he focuses on the black-power movement (a black woman handing out fliers asking white people 'do you know what it's like to be black'), which is something that could only work for that time and place, not before or now. But one of the key things to the interest in the film is 27 year old Robert De Niro (not his first or last film with the director), who plays this character who sits in a room looking out through his telescope at women in their rooms, setting up phony deals, and in the end basically throwing bombs. Those who have said that De Niro can't act and just is himself in every movie should see this movie, if only out of some minor curiosity. A couple of times in the film it's actually not funny, as when there's a disturbance in a black-power meeting (filmed in a grainer, rougher style than the rest of the film). In the end it's capped off with a rambling monologue in an interview that tops De Niro's in King of Comedy. It's pretty obvious where De Palma's career would go after this, into slightly more mainstream Hollywood territory, but all of his trademarks are here; the dark, almost nail-biting comedy, the perfectly timed style of voyeurism, and interesting usage of locals. Think if De Palma and De Niro did a Monty Python film, only even more low-budget and in its New York way just as off-the-hinges, and you got Hi, Mom! It also contains an eccentric and funny soundtrack. imdb comment
