尼克·弗林（保罗·达诺 Paul Dano 饰）是个年轻作家，从小和单身母亲朱迪（朱丽安·摩尔 Julianne Moore 饰）相依为命的他早就忘记父亲的样子，直到一天接到电话，自称他父亲的乔纳森（罗伯特·德尼罗 Robert De Niro 饰）被房东赶了出来，找他 借车搬家。天上掉下来个老爸，也是个落魄作家，还带着全部行李，让弗林在室友面前非常难堪。已经流落街头的乔纳森晚上到流浪汉收容所过夜，又恰逢弗林在此打工，几个不自然的晚上之后，乔纳森还是决定避嫌，从此只能到车站或无人工地混上一天是一天，还安慰自己是为下一部伟大小说积累素材。时不时听说父亲凄惨状况的弗林终于决定把他找回来，但此时他连父亲是否还活着都不知道……

After losing his job and wife, and spending time in a institution, a former teacher winds up living with his parents. He wants to rebuild his life and reconcile with his wife, but his father would be happy if he shared his obsession with the Philadelphia Eagles. Things get complicated when he meets a woman, who offers to help him reconnect with his wife, if he will do something very important for her in exchange.

A group of working-class friends decide to enlist in the Army during the Vietnam War and finds it to be hellish chaos -- not the noble venture they imagined. Before they left, Steven married his pregnant girlfriend -- and Michael and Nick were in love with the same woman. But all three are different men upon their return.

During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure.

In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in 1910s New York. In the 1950s, Michael Corleone attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.

A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.

Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel. Investigating a case that led to the wrongful arrest and eventual death of an innocent man instead of wanted terrorist Harry Tuttle, he meets the woman from his daydream, and in trying to help her gets caught in a web of mistaken identities, mindless bureaucracy and lies.