19世纪后半期，科技发展持续推动着工业的进步。在伦敦，醉心发明的科学家福格（Steve Coogan 饰）经常进行疯狂的运输工具实验，尽管，他得不到皇家科学院的认可，只是一名业余爱好者，仆人也因过于危险的实验离他而去。来自中国的刘星（成龙 饰）为取回家乡的宝物“玉佛像”，打劫了英格兰银行。招来了英国警方与中国犯罪组织黑蝎集团的无休无止追捕，无奈之下只得化名“路路通”担任福格的仆人。
　　福格为取代古板不堪的科学院院长，赌上全部家当与前途，要在80天内环游世界。而路路通认为可借这次旅行将佛像送回家乡。两人出发后在巴黎遇见痴迷印象派的业余女画家罗切（Cécile De France 饰）要求同行，他们怀着不同的目的乘上“东方快车”号。虽然前路有土耳其王子（Arnold Schwarzenegger 饰）、黑蝎芳将军（莫文蔚 饰）与手下（吴彦祖 饰）的重重拦截，但怀揣梦想的三人不会畏惧任何险阻。

　　Tom Sizemore plays Jack Durant, a dynamic and dangerous gentleman who runs the most famous steakhouse in the city. He caters to movie stars, politicians and mobsters. He knows all their secrets but does anyone really know the man they call Jack Durant?

　　一家走下坡路的澳大利亚银行遇到了一个神秘的HR导师麦克斯·门科奥弗和他的自称会提高公司工作效率的改革策略——把雇员变成无自我意识的工作机器。这一切正如男主角所画的未完待续的漫画书的故事情节一样。男主角侥幸没有被下药，他试图和女主角一同打败坏角色、拯救同事并收获爱情。

　　Anmar dreams of becoming a great soccer player, and he finally has his chance to join a team while studying architecture in the U.S. But, to reach his potential, Anmar must first convince his father who threatens to send him back home, get on with his teammates who see Anmar more as a terrorist than a striker, and work with his classmate, Ana, who is just a bit too hot.

　　理查德是一名飞行员，退伍后，他在一家酒吧打工，认识了同事芭芭拉（安娜·玛西 Anna Massey 饰）并与之相爱。性格粗暴的理查德同老板发生口角后被开除，身无分文的的只得投奔前妻布伦达（Barbara Leigh-Hunt 饰）。布伦达经营着一家婚姻介绍所，她友善的接待了理查德并偷偷的在他口袋里塞了一些钱。没想到几天后，布伦达在介绍所中被她与理查德共同的朋友鲍伯（巴里·福斯特 Barry Foster 饰）玷污并用领带勒死，原来鲍伯就是伦敦臭名昭著的领带勒杀狂魔。
　　布伦达死了，理查德成了最大的嫌疑人。为了将更大的罪嫌推到理查德身上，鲍伯又趁机杀死芭芭拉，一时间理查德成为了全城通缉的对象，最终落网。负责此案的奥克斯福德（埃里克·麦克文 Alec McCowen 饰）觉得事有蹊跷，经过夫人的提点，他发现真正的罪犯已经露出了马脚。

布兰顿（希拉里•斯万克 Hilary Swank 饰）来到法奥斯城，成为了当地的大众情人，很受女性欢迎。然而他却有着不为人知的隐秘——俊男本是女儿身。“他”的真名叫蒂娜，一直对自己是个女性缺失认同。他喜欢成为男性，并决定来到这个陌生的城市开始新角色和新生活。                                                                      　　布兰顿和当地女孩拉娜（科洛•塞维尼 Chloë Sevigny 饰）恋爱了，还和拉娜的前男友成为好友——尽管他们粗野、酗酒，行为暴戾，但被接纳的布兰顿却得到了认同感。生活朝着布兰顿想要的方向发展，一次交通违章却暴露了所有的秘密。布兰顿被识破女儿身，尽管拉娜原谅了她，悲剧却发生了。拉娜的前男友对布兰顿怒不可遏，将她摧毁在一场残忍的暴力事件中。

　　A comic celebration of dreamers and their dreams, LIVING IN OBLIVION is the second film written and directed by Tom DiCillo. With a tone that teeters somewhere between Kafka and the Marx Brothers, it chronicles the hilarious misadventures of a group of people who have joined together to accomplish one of the most difficult goals imaginable - the making of a low-budget independent film. With an innovative and surprising structure that shifts fluidly between the movie being made and those making it, the film offers a rare and accurate -- if comically heightened -- look behind-the-scenes, with the people who make the scenes. How they make them -- and the fact that they manage to make them at all -- is what LIVING IN OBLIVION is all about.
　　Starring Steve Buscemi as director Nick Reve, LIVING IN OBLIVION highlights a day on the set of Nick's film where everything that could possibly go wrong, actually does. Struggling against ever-escalating odds to maintain his integrity and his sanity, Nick is both helped and hindered by his bumbling, if well-intentioned crew, headed by his cinematographer Wolf (Dermot Mulroney), a cameraman whose leather gear suggests that he is more inspired by Billy Idol than Sven Nykvist; a leading lady, Nicole (Catherine Keener), a talented but neurotic actress who is involved in a romance and a rivalry with her leading man, Chad Palomino (James Le Gros); an iron-willed assistant director, Wanda (Danielle Von Zerneck); and, for the first time ever on-screen, a Gaffer.

　　埃利斯（丹尼斯·奎德 Dennis Quaid 饰）是一名商人，曾经有过一段非常黑暗的过去。他的父亲罗伊（詹姆斯·卡恩 James Caan 饰）是一名杀人凶手，犯下过灭门的惨案。父亲带给埃利斯的阴影一直持续到他成年。之后，在一场旅途中，埃利斯邂逅了名为戴维斯（梅格·瑞恩 Meg Ryan 饰）的女子，戴维斯温柔而又善良，她的出现拯救了埃利斯一团乱麻的生活。很快，两人就坠入了情网，走到了一起。
　　实际上，戴维斯也有着悲惨的经历，她的所有家人都死于一场谋杀，而她是唯一的一名幸存者。埃利斯可怕的预感得到了证实，杀死戴维斯家人的不是别人，正是自己的父亲。