影片根据詹妮弗·尼文2015年畅销小说改编，故事讲述维奥莱特·马基(范宁饰)和西奥多·芬奇(史密斯饰)这两个高中生和精神疾病不断作斗争，他们相遇并发现各自内心的世界。

　　美国少妇瑞姬•蓝伯特（奥黛丽•赫本饰）在法国梅杰夫滑雪场偶遇一位自称皮特•乔舒亚（加里•格兰特 Gary Grant 饰）的男子。瑞姬返回巴黎，发现家中被洗劫一空，丈夫查尔斯遇害。瑞姬被美国使馆传召，结识了CIA特工汉密尔顿（华特•马修 Walter Matthau 饰），才发现原来查尔斯葬礼上出现的三名怪客是他二战时贪污黄金的同伴：泰克斯（詹姆士•柯本 James Coburn 饰），赫尔曼（乔治•肯尼迪 George Kennedy 饰）和利奥波德（奈德•格拉斯 Ned Glass 饰）。汉密尔顿要求瑞姬帮助政府寻找失踪的黄金，而三名怪客也对瑞姬紧追不放。危急时皮特突然现身救美。正当瑞姬陷入情网之际，三怪客纷纷遇害，矛头指向身份变幻莫测的皮特，瑞姬也陷入空前危机。
　　加里•格兰特与奥黛丽•赫本因此片分获金球奖最佳男女主角提名。奥黛丽•赫本获英国电影电视艺术学院奖最佳女主角。

　　GiGi(Ginnifer Goodwin 饰)是个对爱情充满幻想的女孩儿，却在一次次约会中受挫。她的闺蜜Beth（Jennifer Aniston 饰）和Janine（Jennifer Connelly 饰）不断鼓励GiGi在感情中振奋起来，却各自对爱情怀有遗憾。Beth与Neil（Ben Affleck 饰）同居七年，却一直未能等来期待的那枚婚戒。Janine的敏感让她与Ben（Bradley Cooper 饰）的婚姻陷入僵局，而Ben与歌手Anna（Scarlett Johansson 饰）的婚外情更是给他们的婚姻雪上加霜。Anna一边拒绝拥趸Conor（Kevin Connolly 饰）的示好，一边热情似火的期待Ben离开Janine，可是Ben真的能离开Janine来到她的身边么？另一方面Anna的好友Mary（Drew Barrymore 饰）在一个清晨和Conor面对面的不期而遇了。
　　几个女孩儿带着爱情的梦想在城市中跌跌撞撞，而此时一直未遇真爱的GiGi在酒吧老板Alex（Justin Long 饰）的口中听到了让所有女人心碎的话“He is just not that into you!”

　　Because I could not stop for Death, he kindly stopped for me; the carriage held but just ourselves and immortality” – Emily Dickinson
　　If Death took a holiday, the guns would go silent in Iraq, the slaughter on our nation’s highways would cease, and the news media would be compelled to cover positive events in the humanities, arts, and sciences. Unfortunately, Death has not had a vacation in recorded history, but Mitchell Leisen’s 1934 fantasy, Death Takes a Holiday, allows us to consider the possibility. Co-written by Maxwell Anderson and Gladys Lehman and based on the play "La Morte in Vacanza" by Alberto Casella, Death Takes a Holiday stars Frederic March as the Grim Reaper who takes on human form in an attempt to discover why men fear him so much. Why he has waited 5,000 years to satisfy this curiosity is not explained.
　　[Spoiler] After a brief tryout as a shadowy figure who scares the daylights out of those that cross his path, Death shows up at, of all places, an upscale party at an Italian villa, posing as the mysterious Prince Sirki. Only one person knows who he really is, the host Duke Lambert (Guy Standing), and he is sworn to secrecy. Sirki proceeds to fascinate the guests. Given to bursts of wit and poetry, he can just as quickly turn sullen and threatening, and some soon find out that it is better not to look too deeply into his eyes. During the three days in which the Prince is at the villa, however, people all over the world miraculously escape death and potential suicides are doomed to frustration.
　　To see what’s behind all the conversation about love, the suave but naïve Prince Sirki falls for the irresistible Grazia (Evelyn Venable), the daughter of one of Duke’s friends. Grazia knows who Death is but does not fear him, much to the chagrin of her fiancé, Corrado (Kent Taylor) who has developed a strong disdain for Prince Charming.
　　More sinister than Brad Pitt in the 1998 remake Meet Joe Black, March turns in a very convincing performance as the creepy yet strangely appealing guest. Although the ending is melodramatic, the emotions are very real and the suggestion that Death may in reality be a friend disguised as a foe is quite touching.
　　(Howard Schumann, talkingpix.co.uk)
　　In this wearisome and predictable plot line, Death falls in love and bores us to death talking about it.
　　(Dennis Schwartz, homepages.sover.net)
　　I've heard DRACULA was advertised with the tag line "The Weirdest Love Story ever told!" (this is probably a paraphrase), but at heart, I've never felt that you could honestly call that movie a love story. The tag line would be much more appropriate for this one, since it ultimately boils down to what amounts to a love story. This movie is very good indeed, particularly if you consider that it is built around a concept that could have easily been handled in a cute or facile manner. Instead, it is handled as seriously as possible, with some real thought put into how death would try to come to terms with a life and an outlook that was to that point totally unfamiliar to him; much of the credit does go to Fredric March in the title role. It's quite scary when it needs to be, particularly during the first twenty minutes. From then on, it deals with its themes with subtlety, a quiet wit, an enduring sadness, and an everpresent tension on how Death might react if crossed. It's not perfect; some of the dialogue is self-conscious and artificial, as if the writers knew they were dealing with weighty issues and were trying to be profound. But I am certainly glad they didn't try to turn it into a musical comedy of sorts.
　　(Dave Sindelar, scifilm.org)
　　See also the remake: Death Takes A Holiday (1971)

　　18岁的亚莉克欧文斯对舞蹈有一份狂爱，由于现实生活的压力，白天在一家铁工厂担任焊工，晚上在当地一家酒吧演出，全片刻画亚莉克追求理想、独立与爱情的奋斗过程。 主题曲由艾伦卡拉主唱，支支动听，舞曲风靡全球。

　　根据狄更斯的小说《远大前程》改编而成。
　　费因是个贫苦的孤儿，在极其偶然的情况下，他进入神秘的Paradiso Perduto庄园——那是州上最富有的女人丁斯默尔（Anne Bancroft饰）的家，成为她和她的侄女艾丝黛拉的座上客。
　　许多年过去了，费因（Ethan Hawke饰）每周都到庄园跳舞，他一往情深地爱慕着成年后的艾丝黛拉（Gwyneth Paltrow饰），可艾丝黛拉绝美的脸庞下却是一颗高傲而冷酷的心：她并不爱费因，却极尽其挑逗之能事，将可怜的小伙子玩弄于股掌之中，最后她就不告而别去了国外留学。
　　受到沉重打击的费因终于看清自己和艾丝黛拉的距离，可就在他放弃之际，他又突然得到神秘人的赞助来到纽约，在这里他尽情施展自己的艺术才华，事业上就要闯出一片天，此时，性感尤物艾丝黛拉又在他面前出现了……

　　In 1900, Naomi Murdoch deserted her small-town family to go on the stage. Some ten years later, daughter Lily invites Naomi back to see her in the Riverdale high school play. Her arrival sets the whole town abuzz, wakes up old conflicts, and sets off new emotional storms.

　　卡洛琳·班德（Hope Lange）是一个刚毕业不久、在纽约打拼的女大学生，她进入费边出版公司担任秘书职位，并在那里认识了同样身为秘书的格雷格·亚当斯（Suzy Parker）和阿普里尔·莫里森（Diane Baker），格雷格和阿普里尔都很喜欢卡洛琳，于是邀请卡洛琳搬进她们的公寓，三个女孩就这样生活在了一起。卡洛琳的上司阿曼达·法罗（Joan Crawford）因为怀疑卡洛琳企图取代她的位置，所以一直百般刁难卡洛琳，然而卡洛琳自己却计划男友艾迪·哈里斯（Brett Halsey）一从欧洲回来便与其成婚，然后从公司辞职彻底投入家庭主妇的生活，但天不遂人愿的是艾迪在欧洲与其他女人成婚，伤心不已的卡洛琳只好全心投入工作之中，她和编辑迈克·莱斯（Stephen Boyd）的感情也因此变得越发复杂。阿普里尔是个天真单纯的女孩，刚一入公司就遭到了上司沙利马尔先生(Brian Aherne)的性骚扰，但却反而与其成为朋友，后来偶然间她认识了富二代德克斯特·基（Robert Evans）并与其交往，她幻想着与之成家立业却未料到自己所托非人。格雷格一直努力想要成为一个女演员，她偶然认识了导演戴维·塞维奇（Louis Jourdan）并与之谈起恋爱，有了塞维奇的帮助她以为自己已经可以全心追求演艺事业便放弃了秘书的工作，却未想到厄运已经就此埋下祸根。

　　[之后4]讲述一个过往的秘密动摇了Hardin坚不可摧的外表，随后Tessa遭遇了一场悲剧，使他们的关系濒临崩溃。

　　故事发生在1921一年，艾娃（玛丽昂·歌迪亚 Marion Cotillard 饰）和姐姐玛格达（安吉拉·萨拉弗安 Angela Sarafyan 饰）经受不住繁华都市的霓虹诱惑，启程从波兰前往纽约淘金。半路上，玛格达不幸患上了当时是不治之症的肺结核，因此而被医生隔离在了位于埃利斯岛上的医院之中，情同手足的姐妹两人就此分道扬镳。
　　来到纽约之后，艾娃才发现，这里的一切远不如幻想中的美好，她不幸的落入了皮条客布鲁诺（华金·菲尼克斯 Joaquin Phoenix 饰）的手中，成为了一名妓女。艾娃的生活中充满了伤痛和屈辱，能够再次和姐姐相见成为了她心中的唯一信念。一次偶然中，艾娃结识了名叫奥兰多（杰瑞米·雷纳 Jeremy Renner 饰）的魔术师，善良的奥兰多让艾娃明白，他可能是自己迈向新生活的唯一跳板。

　　寡居的妇女苦泪多，
　　可爱的女儿为娘愁，
　　过节带来神奇魔棍，
　　从此幸福小日子过。