Када схвати да јој прети депортовање у родну Канаду, Маргарет (Сандра Булок), успешни њујоршки издавач књига, објављује да је верена за свог асистента Ендруа (Рајан Рејнолдс), који о томе нема појма и кога она већ годинама малтретира. Он пристаје да учествује у тој превари, али има и неколико својих захтева. Пар креће на Аљаску код његове чудне породице, где ће се градска девојка која увек држи све конце у својим рукама наћи у низу комичних ситуација. С неочекиваним венчањем и имиграционим службеником за петама, Маргарет и Ендру ће се нерадо заветовати да ће се држати плана, без обзира на озбиљност последица.
Када најбољи пријатељи и потпуне супротности Деби и Питер замене домове на недељу дана, они завире у животе једно другог што би могло да отвори врата љубави.
Хроника из времена Макса Перкинса који је радио као уредник књига у „Скрибнеру“, где је надгледао радове Томаса Вулфа, Ернеста Хемингвеја, Ф. Скота Фицџералда и других светски познатих писаца.
Overbearing mom, Jackie, travels cross-country to be with her son, Angelo, after he drops out of college to become a surfer. She meets a surf instructor who convinces her to try to accept her son's wishes and allow him to follow his dreams.
In a series of three vignettes, three women in turn struggle to free themselves from the men who restrict their personal freedom.
After interning her insane husband in a remote psychiatric hospital, book editor Helga Pato returns home by train, where she meets a mysterious man who identifies himself as a psychiatrist.
Actress Reese Holden has been offered a small fortune by a book editor if she can secure for publication the love letters that her father, a reclusive novelist, wrote to her mother, who has since passed away. Returning to Michigan, Reese finds that an ex-grad student and a would-be musician have moved in with her father, who cares more about his new friends than he does about his own health and well-being.
When editor Jane Grant receives a plus-one invitation to her cousin's wedding, she finds herself in a predicament. To one-up her old high school rival Natasha Nutley, Jane tells her about her perfect, charming and handsome boyfriend -- except he isn't real. Catching word of her "boyfriend," Jane's intrusive Aunt Ida demands he make an appearance at the wedding. Now, Jane must go on every date she can snag to find a man who fits the bill.
Sparks fly when Anna Penn and Charlie Hudson meet. Unfortunately, they're both engaged to other people. In fact, they're staying at the same New York City hotel in order to work on wrapping up the last details of their nuptials. Over days and evenings of joint wedding planning, the two grow closer -- and start to wonder if they're getting married to the right people after all.
James is still in love with his ex-wife Barbara and has one last chance to win her back. While his friends and parents try to help, they're dealing with their own complicated love lives. But, in a crazy world, love is the only thing that makes sense.
Pablo and Fernando, owners of a children's book publishing company about to go bankrupt, have managed through unorthodox means to contract the country's best-selling author, Adela Mora. The evening of the official signing, Paco asks his friend to let him use his house for a love tryst while Fernando wines and dines Adela. At the same time, Paco's wife, Carmen, will be taking her lover to Rosa's house. From here on the rout begins, as Paco tries to get rid of Silvia, his secretary, and Carmen, her husband. Fernando thinks Rosa is cheating on him with Oscar, who thinks Fernando is gay and having an affair with his partner, while the soldier thinks his girlfriend is a professional...
As Russian writer Boris Pasternak (1890-1960) thinks it is impossible that his novel Doctor Zhivago is published in the Soviet Union, because it supposedly shows a critical view of the October Revolution, he decides to smuggle several copies of the manuscript out of the country. It is first published in 1957 in Italia and the author receives the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1958, which has consequences.