梅兰妮（瑞茜•威瑟斯彭 Reese Witherspoon 饰）是纽约炙手可热的设计师之一，欧美年轻貌美的她拥有众多追求者，欧美其中不乏像纽约最有名的钻石王老五、市长的儿子安德鲁这样人物。可是梅兰妮虽然和安德鲁订了婚，却一连三次拒绝了他花费天价的求婚。众人一时都摸不着头脑。其实，梅兰妮有自己的苦处：她本来是阿拉巴马州一个平凡的女孩，早已嫁给了当地一个纯朴的小伙子，但梅兰妮不甘心于小镇平凡无奇的生活，于是几年前独自来到纽约打拼。她必须回家乡办好离婚手续才能返回纽约开始她和安德鲁的新生活。梅兰妮带着一种优越感回到了家乡，回到了之前她不屑一顾的生活的地方。此时，她才猛然醒悟，原来自己一直都没有改变，这里才是她的家！
张栋梁
回复 :Sara is offered the perfect apartment: roomy, very bright, luxurious and so inexpensive. There's just one problem: she can't move in until the current owner, the elderly Lola, dies.
黄雨田
回复 :Jack Willis is a handsome roadtrain driver with a secret - he has just become a top-selling romance novelist. However, being a 'man's man' in the Australian outlook, to avoid embarrassment, he needs a name, a woman's name - and he chooses that of his best friend, Ruby Vale. He must do some fancy footwork to continue the charade when the glamorous city publisher, Ziggy, arrives in dusty outback Lucktown to sign 'Ruby Vale' to a major book deal. Ruby agrees to help Jack though it's for her own gain as well - the publisher will pay for her coming wedding (with Hamish, Jack's buddy). Accompanied by Jack, Ruby goes to Sydney to meet the media, appear on TV and cocktail parties, etc. Gradually, Jack realizes that he has fallen in love with Ruby, while Ruby is also touched by Jack's novel. However, Hamish arrives in Sydney a few days later and asks both of them to stop all these foolish things...
李加靓
回复 :在纽约布鲁克林区街头开设香烟店的哈维凯托，和经常到店里买烟的失意作家威廉.赫特是全片的中心人物，透过他俩的交谈各自的遭遇，理出了四个男人与一个女人之间复杂的人生故事……在东方女性版的《喜福会》造成轰动后，导演王颖转过头来拍摄一部西方男性版，同样是以几个家庭的多线发展探讨人伦亲请的可贵，但味道各有不同。这部电影能把生活中看似平凡无奇的一些细微变化作出高明的解释，不少片段有感人肺腑的剧力，证明王颖已经跨越华裔导演的民族局限性，且西方题材的掌握也能挥洒自如。
