本片講述一間傳統學校的老師用反傳統的方法來教學生們詩歌、文學、生活的故事。電影不僅是主演羅賓·威廉斯的經典之作，同時也是一部講述師生關係的優秀電影。

正直探員杜馬（阿爾柏仙奴）與拍檔到沒有黑夜的阿拉斯加協助調查一宗命案。誰料杜馬在追兇時誤殺拍檔，杜馬在內疚和無法入睡下瀕臨精神崩潰之際，真兇作家華特（羅賓威廉斯）與他大玩心理戰，加上女幹探艾莉（希拉莉絲韻）的進逼下，把杜馬推向不歸路。

A psychiatrist becomes romantically involved with the sister of one of his patients, but the influence of her controlling gangster husband threatens to destroy them both.

A gardener in East L.A. struggles to keep his son away from gangs and immigration agents while traveling across town to perform landscaping work for the city's wealthy landowners.

Because he's the oldest, Jake has been the man of the house, since his parents divorce. When Mom starts seeing Sam, who always seems to be trying some new way to get rich quick, and declares he's the man of the house now, Jake puts up with it. Until he discovers Sam's illegal activities.

Driven to the brink by her overworked and insensitive husband and horrendously selfish children, Brooklyn-based housewife Gloria Goodman seeks a meaning to life.