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　　During a cross-country lecture tour, notoriously acerbic radio personality Sheridan Whiteside slips on the icy steps of the house of the Stanleys, a prominent Ohio family, and is forced to recuperate in their home during the Christmas holidays. The overbearing, self-centered celebrity soon comes to dominate the lives of the residents and everyone else who enters the household. He encourages young adults Richard and June Stanley to pursue their dreams, much to the dismay of their conventional father Ernest.
　　Meanwhile, Whiteside's spinster assistant Maggie Cutler finds herself attracted to local newspaperman Bert Jefferson. When she reads Bert's play, she is so impressed she asks Whiteside to show it to his contacts, and then announces she will quit his employment and marry Bert. However, her boss is loath to lose such an efficient aide and does his best to sabotage the blossoming romance...

　　玛丽（莉莎·库卓 Lisa Kudrow 饰）最近有点烦，因为他遭到了制片人尼克（杰西·布拉德福特 Jesse Bradford 饰）的“勒索”，尼克声称自己手中掌握着玛丽失散已久的儿子的下落，而交换情报的条件则是由他将玛丽与儿子重逢的场面拍摄下来。
　　查理（史蒂夫·库根 Steve Coogan 饰）和他的同性情人吉尔（大卫·萨克莱夫 David Sutcliffe 饰）也遇到了点麻烦，一系列不太显眼的迹象让查理开始怀疑起了吉尔对自己的忠诚。朱迪（玛吉·吉伦哈尔 Maggie Gyllenhaal 饰）亦站在人生的十字路口前，她不知道自己和男友奥迪斯（杰森·雷特 Jason Ritter 饰），以及男友父亲弗兰克（汤姆·阿诺德 Tom Arnold 饰）之间的关系该何去何从，未来又在哪里。

　　Nick和Nora 这对搞笑侦探夫妻档总是连手出击调查案件。这回他们要着手的是一位发明家失踪的案子，要找出为何会失踪，且失踪到哪里去了……？
　　
　　相当成功地将喜剧和悬疑元素交融在一起。William Powell和Myrna Loy 饰演的夫妻档，是影史上第一对塑造成功的屏幕情侣组合！本片导演就是影坛上有『一次OK』之封号的 W.S. Van Dyke，本片他只花了两礼拜就拍摄完毕！由华人黄宗沾担纲摄影指导。本片独有的喜剧悬疑风，也成往后这类型电影的祖师爷。Albert Hackett和Frances Goodrich 根据 Dashiell Hammett 的小说改编成剧本。后来还拍摄了五部续集。

　　Honor's sole focus is getting into Harvard. Willing to do whatever it takes, Honor concocts a plan to take down her top three competitors, until things take a turn when she unexpectedly falls for her biggest competition.