When a single father to a teenage daughter learns that he has a fatal brain tumor, he takes her on a road trip to find the mother who abandoned her years before and to try to teach her everything she might need over the rest of her life.

　　

本片拍摄于1953年，根据马克·吐温的小说《一张百万英镑的钞票》改编。\r富豪之家的两兄弟，从银行取出面额为一百万英镑的钞票，想以此验证一个穷人拿到这张巨额钞票的结局。哥哥认为这张钞票对一个穷人毫无价值，最终他还是会穷困潦倒；而弟弟则认为他会因为这张钞票摆脱困境过上富足的生活。为了证明各自的理论的正确的，兄弟两人为此打起了赌。他们将这张钞票留给穷困潦倒的美国小伙子亨利·亚当斯（格利高里·派克GregoryPeck饰）后出国旅行了，留下对未来一片迷茫的亨利。\r人们对这位突然暴富的罕见富翁，竟拼命地拉拢他，从免费吃饭，买衣服，到免费住宿，一个个像乞丐一样讨好他，并不断提高他的社会地位。不仅如此，这位幸运的小伙子还取到了一位好妻子和三万英镑的银行利息，从此以后过着非常幸福的生活。

Aston (Robert Shaw), a quiet, reserved man, lives alone in a top-floor cluttered room of a small abandoned house in a poor London district. He befriends and takes in Mac Davies (Donald Pleasence), an old derelict who has been fired from a menial job in a café. In time Aston offers him a job as caretaker of the house. Aston's brother, Mick (Alan Bates) - a taunting, quasi-sadist - harasses the derelict when his brother is away, countermanding his orders. Eventually Aston, himself irritated by the cantankerous old man, puts him out.

格温妮丝•海登已经拥有了一切，完美的职业生涯、穿不完的衣服、梦想的公寓、贴心的朋友……她认为她的生活中唯一缺少的是一个男人。一次，格温妮丝•海登受到启发，决定在婚恋网站上找到自己的如意郎君。然而，一切并非如她所愿……