艾克(理查•基尔 Richard Gere 饰)是一名专栏记者,他的妻子就是顶头上司。然而,这并没有给他带来多少好运气,相反,和妻子性格不合离婚后,因这层关系艾克过得更加抑郁。一次偶然,艾克在酒吧里听闻了马里兰州一名女子玛琪(朱莉娅•罗伯茨 Julia Roberts 饰)三次踏上红地毯时临阵脱逃的故事。他对这件事深感兴趣,并将其写成了专栏。 当艾克去到实地采访当地人时,没想到人们普遍对他的做法感到很愤怒。而即将第四次踏上红地毯的事件主人公玛琪因为看了艾克的专栏后大感尴尬,第四次临阵逃脱。玛琪认为是艾克害惨了自己,决定以牙还牙。
Stephen Seary, a charismatic and successful stage designer, returns to his small hometown in Australia to say goodbye to his dying mother. What was to be a quick trip descends into chaos, drama, and at times downright funny moments as Stephen navigates family responsibilities, a difficult relationship with his father, old friends and past lovers, all while trying to return to Europe for a major opera contract.
Stella Ballister (Patricia Owens) receives the horrifying news that her husband met with an untimely demise while mountain climbing. Newly married, Stella asks for the retrieval of her husband's body - but the task proves impossible when the corpse accidentally falls into a deep crevasse, where no human eyes or hands can reach him. Mark (James Donald), having feelings for Stella, stays by her side, a close friend and nothing more. Forty years later, still trying to get over the news of the accident, Stella learns that the glacier has moved. Hiring a crew to help prospect her husband out of the ice, they find the body preserved and untouched. Stella views the body of her husband one last time.
Barbie Hallem is a bored rich girl, who drinks too much, parties too much and flirts outrageously with any man she meets. And there's no reason to think she stops at flirting, even though she has a boyfriend. But her boyfriend is a drip. He won't punch out a guy when he sees her kissing him. The dullard even tries to take her home when she gets drunk at a party. What she wants to do is go up to the mountains and stay at the cabin her uncle left to her. The boyfriend tries to tag along, but she manages to abandon him at the side of the road. Before the night is over, she'll wish desperately she had just gone home.