少根筋的单亲妈咪珊蒂（詹妮弗·安妮斯顿 饰），独力抚养两个儿子，总期盼着与前夫破镜重圆，没想到他却娶了一个20岁的小萝莉；单亲奶爸布莱德利（杰森苏戴西斯 饰），身兼父母两职辛苦拉拔女儿长大，却不知如何与青春期女儿的相处；八百年没见老妈的大龄女子洁西（凯特·哈德森 饰），藏着不欲人知的小秘密，不料远在百里外的老爸老妈却意外来访；单身的事业女强人米兰达（朱莉亚·罗伯茨 饰），忙到没时间谈恋爱，却在新书发表会上遇见了生命中唯一的缺憾…每个人总有不能说的秘密，母亲节那天，一场热闹的庆祝派对，将彼此的心重新凝聚在一起。
"帷幕升起，汉娜心怀激动地开始了她在大学剧团的首场演出，但她却因为身体不适晕倒在舞台上；通过种种检查化验，最后医生得出了这样的结论：汉娜其实是父母失败流产的幸存儿，但这导致了她身体有某些天然的缺陷。听到这一消息，汉娜觉得困惑和失落，而且很愤怒。
汉娜在好友贾森的鼓励下，开始了一段新生的旅程，在旅程中她开始重新梳理自己的生命，她越来越坚信每个生命都是美丽、独一无二，不应该被不负责任的堕胎剥夺……"
德尼罗与基顿饰演一对早已分手的老夫妻，他们收养的儿子（本·巴恩斯 饰）与女友（阿曼达·塞弗里德 饰）到了谈婚论嫁的阶段，但本的生母（苏珊·萨兰登）突然杀将出来决定参加亲儿子的婚礼，而且她还是位虔诚的清教徒。为瞒住生母，德尼罗与基顿只能逢场作戏再次扮演夫妻，一系列貌合神离的搞笑事接踵而至……
影片讲述了一个女儿在两位母亲之间的撕裂与挣扎的故事，一位是用爱抚养她成长的养母Tina、，另一个则是与她有着血缘关系的亲生母亲Angelica。三个人因爱与伤痛而产生了纽带关系，但被爱围困的女儿究竟该如何抉择，三人各自身份又该如何定义？
桑德拉（玛丽·阿斯特 Mary Astor 饰）虽然已有家室，却深深的爱上了皮特（乔治·布伦特 George Brent 饰），最终，两人决定抛弃所有的一切私奔。虽然他们得以过上了朝夕相处的日子，但桑德拉的婚姻始终是两人关系里的一根刺。当桑德拉怀上了皮特的孩子后，皮特却转而同自己的未婚妻玛姬（贝蒂·戴维斯 Bette Davis 饰）结婚了，这让桑德拉非常的愤怒和震惊。
Joy is an emotionally damaged young woman of eighteen, who was given up at birth, to grow up in homes and with foster families. She lives on the fringes of society, getting by on benefits and earning a little extra by playing the accordion in the subway. In addition, she is a skilled shoplifter and has never been caught.
During a heated argument with her sister Joan, Gail discovers the shocking news that she is adopted. With the reluctant support of her adoptive parents and baby sister Penny, Gail goes in search of her biological mother and true identity.
Gil Cardinal searches for his natural family and an understanding of the circumstances that led to his becoming a foster child. An important figure in the history of Canadian Indigenous filmmaking, Gil Cardinal was born to a Métis mother but raised by a non-Indigenous foster family, and with this auto-biographical documentary he charts his efforts to find his biological mother and to understand why he was removed from her. Considered a milestone in documentary cinema, it addressed the country’s internal colonialism in a profoundly personal manner, winning a Special Jury Prize at Banff and multiple international awards.
Mula lives with her husband, sick mother and daughter Nina in a countryside house. At the weekend before Nina’s First Holy Communion, her brother with his family come for a visit together with Kaja – Mula’s younger sister, who disappeared suddenly 6 years earlier. Kaja is Nina’s biological mother. Mula is afraid that unstable Kaja might want to take her daughter away.
Coring, a gay beautician, is left with a baby by his former ward, Dennis. The baby grows up thinking that Coring is his real father. Everything seems to be smooth until the kid's mother suddenly shows up to claim her son.
When the teenage adoptive daughter of two hyper-devoted gay parents seeks a relationship with her nonjudgmental birth mother, they explore the complications and joys of uniting their big, loud, multi-ethnic families.
