An uptight New Yorker and his party girl sister visit their Dad's lake house to meet his new wife, and rough-around-the-edges kids. When the parents announce they're adopting a child to bring the family together, it has the opposite effect.
早已年過半百的根·湯姆森(邁爾·基頓 Michael Keaton 飾)曾經是一名風光一時好萊塢電影明星他所塑造的超級雄飛鳥俠家喻戶。而今榮耀早成日黃花,不甘寂的里根轉戰(zhàn)百老,試圖通過改編蒙德?卡佛的《我們談論愛情的候,我們談論什》重新贏得關注 與尊重。無奈現總和理想有太大差距,劇組經費緊,糟糕的男主被燈砸頭,剛從毒所出來的女兒米(艾瑪·斯通 Emma Stone 飾),毒舌戲劇評論員箭在上蓄勢待發(fā),此請來救場的好萊當紅小生麥克·農(愛德華·諾 Edward Norton 飾)乖戾張揚,屢染指篡改里根殫竭慮打造的戲劇 在混亂的鼓點中,命多舛的戲劇迎來公演的重要時刻?