Bipedalism, or 'two-footed walking', is the story of a painter who grew up in an orphanage and only years later learns the circumstances of his father's disappearance and death. Childhood memories bring the main character back to the past he buys a house in the suburbs that used to belong to his family. In the basement, he finds his father's archives and scientific research documents on the hybridization of human race with related biological species. Studying the archive material, he unexpectedly finds evidence of efforts to renew the experiments on the remaining hybrid population. The painter then becomes a researcher, and consequently a victim. The basic idea of his father's research was to change, control and influence the process of human evolution - initially connected with eugenics theories of the period before World War II, and now being placed in a context of modern 'biotechnological' expectations by his former colleagues. The main character tries to recreate and realize his father's heritage, who was forced to cooperate with state terror organizations, using the results of his secret research. In a tragic manner, this information turns into the main character's reality, at first forcing him to reappraise his father's values and later driving him to madness.

15岁的奥斯卡(艾伦史丹佛饰)既早熟又善体人意，他说流利法文、还勤读伏尔泰，所有同年纪的女生都哈他，不过，他却偏偏只甲意“老女人”。这个假期，他即将跨出他“转大人”的第一步，诱惑他心爱的女人上勾，而这对象不是别人，正是他的小妈---伊芙(雪歌妮薇佛饰)。然而，天不从人愿，奥斯卡还没钓到伊芙却先煞到一群高龄欲女，伊芙的姊妹淘黛安。　　15岁的Oscar，聪明好学。他不满同龄女孩的浅薄，爱上了成熟又有学问的女性——他的继母Eve，而他的教授父亲对此一无所知。他想在感恩节之夜对继母表白，却又难以开口，醉醺醺地跟继母的密友Diane上了床，失了童贞。父亲慈爱的关心、Diane的纠缠和Oscar对继母的纯真爱情，构成了本片的喜剧元素。情节有些荒唐，但正象电影中Diane对Eve所说的：你还记得我们15岁的时候是如何梦想的吗？

剧情改编自真人真事，描写诺玛·蕾一家都在南部小镇中的棉织厂工作，环境十分恶劣，工人饱受资本家的无情剥削。后来总工会派来一名组织者协助当地组织工会，受到工人们冷嘲热讽和老板无理阻拦。但是对不合理事物具有挑战勇气的诺玛受到组织者的影响而站了出来，终于在工厂成立了第一个工会。

　　從南美雨林區前來法國訪問的僧士，意外地在電梯中撞見一名無所事事的法國人培林，他對培林一見如故，儘管培林態度冷淡、意興闌珊，他還是讓僧士睡在他旅館房間裡。第二天當正式參訪活動進行一半時，僧士竟意外心臟病發作，緊急送醫後不能言語的他，堅持要見培林一面，心不甘情不願的培林只好前往醫院。打從這兩個人見面在電梯撞見那一刻起，彷彿一切就像命中註定似地，現在要說厭惡對方，大概是很難了…

里克（肯尼思·布拉纳 Kenneth Branagh 饰）是一名从业经验非常丰富的刑事案件律师，他凭借着清晰的逻辑和过人的口才，一直走在行业领先的位置，已经连续八年未尝败绩。然而，在事业经营的风生水起的同时，里克的婚姻生活却渐渐枯萎濒临死亡，他和结婚多年的妻子莲妮（法米克·詹森 Famke Janssen 饰）最近正在起草离婚协议。