都勒（塞缪尔•杰克逊 Samuel L. Jackson 饰）是一个失意的黑人商贩，为了能获得孩子的抚养权，他费力地争取到了房屋贷款。在酗酒者分享会上，滴酒不沾的他难掩心中的欢喜，言辞激动。凯文（本•阿弗莱克 Ben Affleck 饰）是一家艺术品基金会的白人律师，他曾经帮助某富豪做过慈善捐助工作。但当老人死后，他却在上司的授意下，接连清洗了基金会的老成员，此举被老人的继承人视为背叛，一纸诉状将其告上法庭。　　正在此时，一场车祸让都勒和凯文相遇。因为拿错了对方的文件，两人的命运发生了改变。因为错过了约会的时间，都勒的孩子被判由妻子抚养，从此父子难得见面。而凯文也在法庭上被逼上了绝路，陷入了信任危机。这时，两人才发现彼此的对抗只会让事情更糟，但是化敌为友的路途却荆棘丛生……

本片展示了画展开幕式之前一位艺术家的日常及其与他人的关系。生活中的混乱成为了她的灵感源泉。

十六岁的黑人男孩詹姆·华莱士（罗伯·布朗 Rob Brown 饰）在篮球方面极富天赋，非常有潜力成为篮球界的明日之星。他常常与小伙伴们一起打篮球，他们注意到住在对面公寓顶层的沉默男人总是看着他们。这位神秘的隐士原来就是知名作家威廉·佛瑞斯特（肖恩·康纳利 Sean Connery 饰）。一次偶然的恶作剧让两人相互结识，威廉发现他在写作方面也很有天份。很快，詹姆凭借自己出色的篮球技术和优秀成绩，获得了一所著名私立学校的邀请。然而对于一所白人学校而言，詹姆却面临着艰难选择和种种质疑。威廉同意帮助詹姆提高他的写作水平。渐渐地，两人在交流中建立了深厚的友谊，循循善诱的威廉激发出詹姆潜藏的写作才能，而威廉自己也开始改变，终于走出避世多年的隐居公寓。

Fraught with over obvious symbolism, Hartley's early feature is nonetheless a joy to watch. Hal here shows us his uncanny ability to cast his characters perfectly came early in his career.　　Adrienne Shelley is a near perfect foil to herself, equal parts annoying teen burgeoning in her sexuality (though using sex for several years); obsessed with doom and inspired by idealism gone wrong she is deceptively – and simultaneously – complex and simple. Her Audrey inspires so many levels of symbolism it is almost embarrassingly rich (e.g., her modeling career beginning with photos of her foot – culminating her doing nude (but unseen) work; Manhattan move; Europe trip; her stealing, then sleeping with the mechanics wrench, etc.)　　As Josh, Robert Burke gives an absolutely masterful performance. A reformed prisonerpenitent he returns to his home town to face down past demons, accept his lot and begin a new life. Dressed in black, and repeatedly mistaken for a priest, he corrects everyone (I'm a mechanic), yet the symbolism is rich he abstains from alcohol, he practices celibacy (is, in fact a virgin), and seemingly has taken on vows of poverty, and humility as well. The humility seems hardest to swallow seeming, at times, almost false, a pretense. Yet, as we learn more of Josh we see genuineness in his modesty, that his humility is indeed earnest and believable. What seems ironic is the character is fairly forthright in his simplicity, yet so richly drawn it becomes the viewer who wants to make him out as more than what he actually is. A fascinatingly written character, perfectly played.　　The scene between Josh and Jane (a wonderful, young Edie Falco . . . You need a woman not a girl) is hilarious . . . real. But Hartley can't leave it as such and his trick, having the actors repeat the dialogue over-and-over becomes frustratingly arty and annoying . . . until again it becomes hilarious. What a terrific sense of bizarre reality this lends the film (like kids in a perpetual am notare too argument).　　Hartley's weaves all of a small neighborhood's idiosyncrasies into a tapestry of seeming stereotypes but which delves far beneath the surface, the catalyst being that everyone believes they know what the unbelievable truth of the title is, yet no two people can agree (including our hero) on what exactly that truth is. A wonderful little movie with some big ideas.

　　当从曼哈顿搬到高尚住宅区斯戴佛之后，乔安娜（妮可•基德曼 饰）与丈夫（马修•布罗德里克 饰）都准备好了新生活的开始。乔安娜本想打好与邻居之间的关系，可是一众邻居太太的性格都将近完美，让乔安娜感到她们都无法靠近。这群有钱的太太中只有一名叫芭比的太太例外，她是乔安娜眼中的正常人，她俩也成为了好友。　　其他太太们每天都忙着照顾自己的丈夫，对丈夫言听计从。乔安娜与芭比都感到十分好奇，为何邻居太太们似乎没有自己的脾气与喜好。　　于是她们决定一查究竟，调查结果让她们惊讶不已，有钱的男人竟然把自己的太太变成了机器人，以求他们的妻子都千依百顺。这些一半人类一半机器的太太们背后有着“公开的秘密”，这样的黑手，也逐渐伸向乔安娜与芭比，她们将如何应对呢？