朋友的妈妈：朋友的母亲和妻子

　　龙雁飞（许冠文 饰）是一个著名的武侠小说家，十年了都没有新的作品面世了，不过以往的畅销作品仍然带给他客观的收入，生活无忧。他的女儿Sophia（杨千嬅 饰）是个早已到了适婚年龄，但她恋爱运甚差，只想找一个真正可以过日子的人结婚，其实她一直暗恋自己的上司——花花公子Frankie（刘青云 饰）。Frankie因为意外要搬到Sophia的家住，龙雁飞看见自己心爱的女儿被Frankie当工人使唤，心里很不是滋味，便对Frankie充满了敌意，但在后来的相处中，两个男人又成了知己……

　　Anna is stuck: she's approaching 30, living like a hermit in her mum's garden shed and wondering why the suffragettes ever bothered. She spends her days making videos using her thumbs as actors - thumbs that bicker about things like whether Yogi Bear is a moral or existential nihilist. But Anna doesn't show these videos to anyone and no one knows what they are for. A week before her birthday her Mum serves her an ultimatum - she needs to move out of the shed, get a haircut that doesn't put her gender in question and stop dressing like a homeless teenager. Naturally, Anna tells her Mum to "back the f-off". However, when her school friend comes to visit, Anna's self-imposed isolation becomes impossible to maintain. Soon she is entangled with a troubled eight year old boy obsessed with Westerns, and the local estate agent whose awkward interpersonal skills continually undermine his attempts to seduce her.

　　中国拳手高然为逃避往事的创伤，也为躲避岳父争夺女儿的抚养权，放弃拳击事业，隐居在柬埔寨暹粒市，以陪富二代练拳的方式赚钱养家，和女儿过安稳的生活。然而一场突如其来的意外打破了这份平静，高然女儿被卷入境外黑帮犯罪活动，下落不明。高然救女心切，孤身深入东南亚，与黑暗势力展开一场殊死搏斗。

　　畅销浪漫小说家琼安（凯瑟琳•特纳 Kathleen Turner 饰）与恋人杰克（迈克尔•道格拉斯 Michael Douglas 饰）本打算前往纽约暂居，但生性浪漫的杰克却想要改变计划，驾船去欧洲航行，这使文思枯竭的琼安进一步怀疑自己生活的真实性。正在此时，琼安的一位读者，埃及大亨欧马（斯皮罗斯•佛卡斯Spiros Focás 饰）邀请琼安到他的宫殿为其撰写传记，并大肆宣扬自己的统一尼罗河部落称帝的计划。与琼安分开的杰克沮丧万分，在集市上偶遇以前的同僚拉尔夫（丹尼•德维托 Danny DeVito 饰）和刺杀欧马未果的尼罗河土著塔拉克（保罗•大卫•马吉德 Paul David Magid 饰），自己的船也神秘被炸。三人决定前往埃及，拆穿欧马的骗局，同时营救琼安……