阿拉伯少年阿拉丁不仅拥有忠实的朋友猴子阿布的友谊，还拥有一条神奇的魔法飞毡，他们在闹市中过着无忧无虑的快乐生活。一天，城堡里的公主厌倦了无聊透顶的皇宫生活，决定独自一人偷跑出来见识外面的花花世界。偷跑出来的公主在闹市里遇到了阿拉丁，阿拉丁对她一见钟情。同一时候，邪恶国师企图利用阿拉丁帮助自己找到能实现愿望的神灯，阿拉丁当然不肯束手就擒，于是，他的冒险之旅开始了。

本片从一个宫廷乐师萨里埃利的角度，为我们呈现了天才莫扎特的一生。萨里埃利（F·莫里·亚伯拉罕 F. Murray Abraham饰）是维也纳音乐界里有名的人物，自视甚高的他自从遇到了莫扎特（汤姆·休斯克 Tom Hulce饰），心里的妒嫉之火便熊熊燃烧不能平息。莫扎特总能以他超乎常人的音乐作品赢得全场惊叹，他的《费加罗的婚礼》等歌剧，都成了传颂千古的经典。
萨里埃利对莫扎特又羡慕又嫉恨的心理已经发展到几乎扭曲的地步。他在莫扎特的事业上一次次的从中作梗——故意缩短歌剧的上演周期，恶意删改莫扎特的作品，在莫扎特承受着丧父之痛时给他无情的精神折磨。贫穷虚弱的莫扎特在生命最后的几年里，写就遗作《安魂曲》，一代大师35岁就与世长辞，留下不朽作品。而萨里埃利，早有等待他的宿命般的结局。

A courageous young World War II gunner and aspiring cartoonist, trapped in the belly of a B-17 aircraft, has only his imagination as a force that might be able to save him.

In his plot for Noises Off, Frayn plays on the concept of a play within a play, in this case a dreadful sex-comedy titled Nothing On—the type of play in which young girls run about in their underwear, old men drop their trousers, and many doors continually open and shut. Nothing On is set in "a delightful 16th-century posset mill"[2][3] that has been converted to a modern dwelling for which renters are solicited; the fictional playwright is appropriately named Robin Housemonger. Each of the three acts of Noises Off contains a performance of the first act of Nothing On.[4]
Act One is set at the dress rehearsal, the night before opening at the (fictional[5]) Grand Theatre in Weston-super-Mare, with the cast still fumbling with entrances and exits, missed cues, misspoken lines, and bothersome props, most notably several plates of sardines.
Act Two portrays a Wednesday matinee performance one month later,[6] at the (again fictional[7]) Theatre Royal in Ashton-under-Lyne. In this act, the play is seen from backstage, providing a view that reveals the deteriorating personal relationships among the cast that have led to offstage shenanigans and onstage bedlam. Also, there appears to be no true resolution. The play simply falls into turmoil and disorder before the curtain is pulled.
In Act Three, we see a performance near the end of the ten-week run, at the (still fictional) Municipal Theatre in Stockton-on-Tees, when personal friction has continued to increase and everyone is bored and anxious to be done with the play. The actors attempt to cover up a series of mishaps but only compound the problems and draw attention to the bungling performance.
Much of the comedy emerges from the subtle variations in each version as off-stage chaos affects on-stage performance, with a great deal of slapstick. The contrast between players' on-stage and off-stage personalities is also a source of comic dissonance.

Sixteen-year-old Michael Dunn arrives at St. Basil's Catholic Boys School in Brooklyn circa 1965. There, he befriends all of the misfits in his class as they collide with the repressive faculty and discover the opposite sex as they come of age.