西哈诺(杰拉尔•德帕迪约 Gérard Depardieu 饰)生性狂野不羁,心地善良,他默默地爱慕着表妹罗克珊(安妮•波诺什 Anne Brochet 饰),但是他生来长着一个丑陋的大鼻子,纵使自己才华横溢,也不敢对表妹表明心迹。一天晚上他狠狠地嘲讽并且击败一个富家子之后,罗克珊约他次日见面。西哈诺写好情书后准备表明情愫之时,罗克珊却告诉他自己爱上了英俊的新兵克里斯蒂(文森特•佩雷斯 Vincent Perez 饰),并嘱咐在同一兵队的西哈诺保护他。克里斯蒂也喜欢着罗克珊,西哈诺便将自己对罗克珊的爱慕付诸笔端以克里斯蒂之名送达罗克珊之手,并且巧妙地安排了两人的婚姻。谁知早就对罗克珊心怀不轨的军官见此情景愤恨难忍,将克里斯蒂调去了阿拉斯作战……
Noel Coward's attempt to show how the ordinary people lived between the wars. Just after WWI the Gibbons family moves to a nice house in the suburbs. An ordinary sort of life is led by the family through the years with average number of triumphs and disasters until the outbreak of WWII.
Clarence Day (William Powell), is a benevolent despot of his 1880s New York City household. His wife Vinnie (Irene Dunne), is the real head of the household. The anecdotal story, encompassing such details as Clarence (Jimmy Lydon), the eldest son's romance with pretty out-of-towner Mary (Elizabeth Taylor). Vinnie tries to get her headstrong husband baptized, else he'll never be able to enter the Kingdom of God.
亨利(考特尼·万斯 Courtney B. Vance 饰)是小镇上受人敬仰的牧师,他的妻子茱莉亚(惠特尼·休斯顿 Whitney Houston 饰)则是教会唱诗班的主唱,这对璧人在旁人眼中是一对天衣无缝的伉俪,可是实际上,他们要面临的问题远比一般人所设想的多得多。
作为一名牧师,亨利要做的事情并非只有传教那么简单,他还要负责处理教会中发生了许多棘手的意外,这令亨利感到疲惫不堪,与此同时,对于家庭的疏忽让他和茱莉亚之间的感情也亮起了红灯。某日,走投无路的亨利向上帝祈祷,希望主能够帮他度过难关,谁知道上帝真的实现了他的愿望,派来一位名叫杜德利(丹泽尔·华盛顿 Denzel Washington 饰)的天使来到了亨利的身边。