在全国性的大选来临之际，一直被各界看好的种子选手－－国会议员坎姆·布莱迪（威尔·法瑞尔饰）不慎在公开场合失态，于是幕后金主策划推举一名敌对候选人，想要在其地盘北卡罗莱纳区造成影响力，而他们的人选就是菜鸟新人马帝·哈金斯（扎克·加利费安纳基斯饰），这位有些娘娘腔的中年男人是当地旅游中心的主任，一直过着安稳的小男人生活。起先，马帝似乎是最不被人看好的选择，毫无政坛经验的他也数次在公开场合出糗。不过由于新赞助者的支持和金援到位，再加上拼命三郎般的竞选经理及其家族的政治人脉，他得快成为魅力政客坎姆不容小觑的黑马候选人。随着选举日逐渐逼近，这两人的激烈竞争依然僵持不下，而且很快就演变成势不两立、水火不容的情况，他们倾全力互相毁谤和中伤，想尽办法玩阴，耍贱招陷害、弄臭对方，誓言斗个你死我活。暗涌连连的政坛，迎来了一场大混战。
一天，你滿心以為給妻子和朋友開個玩笑，把蓄了十年的鬍子刮掉。但可惜完全被人忽視了，或更可悲的是每個人都假裝看不到，很快，你得意的笑容不見了，笑臉再也掛不住。你堅持，但所有人都跟你說你從未蓄過鬍子。莫非你神經錯亂？是否所有人都想令你以為自己瘋掉了？又或者，是因為你的緣故而搞亂了世界的某種秩序？
本片是導演艾曼雷．卡雷爾改編自他自己一九八六年出版的小說。他的另外兩本小說《 Class Trip 》及《 The Adversary 》曾分別被葛羅特．米勒及妮歌．加西亞兩位導演改編成電影並先後成為康城影展的參選影片。在本片中，因為男人的妻子和老友否認他曾經蓄鬍子而令整個故事維持在緊張的氣氛中。
喜歡結局完整的觀眾可能會感到不高興，但欣賞引人入勝的故事和精湛演技的觀眾則會看得津津有味。本片在康城影展的導演雙週中奪得歐洲電影標籤大獎。
Roger Sharpe，一个来自中西部的年轻人。凭借一己之力推翻了纽约州长达35年的弹珠游戏禁令。
Madhavan (Dileep) is a clever thief who does robbery for a living. He is following the principles of his mentor Mullani Pappan (Mala Aravindan). Meesa Madhavan got his name by the popular saying that if Madhavan rolls his Mustache (Meesa in Malayalam) looking at someone, he will rob his house that night. His enemy was a local money lender Bhageerathan Pillai (Jagathy Sreekumar) who refused to give back his father's property. Madhavan falls in love in Bhageerathan Pillai's daughter Rukmini (Kavya Madhavan). The sub inspector in the village Eappen Pappachi (Indrajith) has an eye on Rukmini. He steals the idol from the local Temple with the intention of selling it and puts the blame on Madhavan. It becomes Madhavan's responsibility to find the culprits and he does that with his mentor's help and thus uniting with his girl friend.
Ambrose likes his mother's assistant, but when she inherits a fortune, the obstacles to their relationship keep mounting.
All the qualified men line up to be chosen, as an heiress advertises that she will marry the man with the most interesting mustache, that marriage which comes with a mansion. John Syrup Soother wins the marriage to who he believes is the heiress, Olive Palmer, a tank of a woman who has lost her beauty with age. But he learns that he his betrothed is not the heiress, Diana Palmer, but her mother. Howson Lotts, a shyster and one of Diana's other suitors, sells John a beach-front house for his new life, that house which is not all that it seems on the surface. In the meantime, others still will do anything to be Diana's betrothed, that choice in which John now has a different but still vested interest.
Andreas Hübner is an unfriendly official who interviews immigrants wishing to stay in Germany. One morning an Adolf Hitler moustache appears on his face. All efforts to remove the fascist identifier fail and Andreas ends up alone in a field asking God for help. The answer arrives in the shape of a yoghurt carton with a 1945 sell-by-date.
Follows a young teacher from Turkey whose goal is to establish a school in Kyrgyzstan.
This town is too small for the both of them. And for their moustache.