艾索(艾迪?墨菲 Eddie Murphy 饰)是底特律黑白两道的大名人,身为警探,却也不时干些偷鸡摸狗的勾当,而且他侦办案件时经常不按程序办事,上司对他十分头痛。这天,艾索因为敲诈烟贩而差点被开除出去,幸亏好运气才免遭于难。 艾索偶遇了一位刚出狱的好友,这人带着巨额的德国债券来到了底特律。两人重逢后不久,艾索的这位朋友就被谋杀了。深谙此事不简单,艾索开始了调查。他独自一人追踪嫌疑人维克多来到了好莱坞的比佛利山,正当他准备上前盘问时,却被当地警察带回了警局。当艾索调查得悉维多克的确在贩毒时,当地的警长同意介入调查,却将艾索打发回老家。艾索只好劝说当地的一名警员比利(祖德?莱茵霍尔德 Judge Reinhold 饰)和他合作,两人开始了私自调查。
Ben Campbell(吉姆·斯特加斯 Jim Sturgess 饰)有着惊人的才华,身为麻省理工高材生的他学业无懈可击,他亦毫无意外地赢得了哈佛医学院的录取通知书。然而30万的高昂学费和生活费令他的大学梦摇摇欲坠。在争取奖学金的面试中,教授对他说胜出者必须要有过人的经历而不是像本这种一张白纸的学生。
Ben在一服装店打工,挣取每小时8美元的薪酬。同时和两个好友准备竞赛2.09以期获得认同和奖金。数学课上本的天才头脑被教授Mickey Rosa(凯文·史派西 Kevin Spacey 饰)发现,Mickey 希望本加入自己的21算法团队,专门去赌场依靠算牌赢得大钱。Ben并不同意,但Ben一直暗恋的女孩Jill Taylor(#凯特·波茨沃斯 Kate Bosworth 饰)也出面诱惑时,Ben开始动摇。
Ben开始了严密的训练,出师的成功让Be...
Alice and Niklas are happy, they lack nothing - but a child. After several failed invitros, they go on a holiday to Sardinia to leave their wish for a child behind. Right there, however, everything they tried to repress resurfaces. A cheerful Tyrolean family moves directly into the neighboring house and seems to have everything that Alice and Niklas lack in life. An unforeseen incident changes their view on life, in which the most natural thing in the world does not avail.
Michael Sch?ffer is among the Westerners whose families are killed in the great tsunami while on holiday at Thailand's Phuket beach. So is Billi Cramer, who is less introvert and hence accepts a Greek international relief force therapist's advice to seek contact with a compatriot in the same position. They got on so well there may be a real relationship in the making, but the grief still weighs heavily.