A pany of friends rises in the funicular to meet unforgettably New Year's Eve on the top of the mountain. The guys are already anticipating how they will cheerfully slide down to the beat of the chimes and explosions of fireworks. But the adventure turns into a real nightmare, when in the midst of the holiday a flimsy trailer gets stuck over the precipice.
老頭子Woody(布魯斯·鄧恩 Bruce Dern 飾)收到一份廣,上面說他中一百萬大獎(jiǎng),此他深信不疑更決定從蒙大的比靈斯市步到內(nèi)布拉斯加林肯市去領(lǐng)獎(jiǎng)他的妻子和兩兒子多次勸阻果,最終小兒David(威爾·福特 Will Forte 飾)決定開車載著他到林去領(lǐng)獎(jiǎng)。去林的路上他們經(jīng)了Woody的老家,便決定拜訪那些久未面的親戚們。Woody一家在那里短暫停留幾天里,整個(gè)鎮(zhèn)的人都知道Woody中了大獎(jiǎng),Woody頓時(shí)成了鎮(zhèn)上紅人,接踵而的是他的那些債主們。David也漸漸了解了Woody那些不為人知的去,對(duì)自己的親有了新的了......