Pryce Cahill是一位已过壮年的前职业高尔夫球手，他的职业生涯在20年前过早脱轨。在婚姻破裂并被印第安纳州一家体育用品店解雇后，Pryce将赌注和未来完全押在了一位名叫Santi的17岁高尔夫天才身上。 本剧是一部发自内心、令人感觉良好的体育题材喜剧，前所未有地呈现了一个在高尔夫世界中建立起来的家庭和这个家庭成员之间的关系。

理纳德（杰昆•菲尼克斯JoaquinPhoenix饰）因病理原因被未婚妻抛弃后长时间无法解脱，居住在纽约父母公寓中的他曾多次尝试自杀。理纳德的父母正考虑与好友科恩一家搞干洗店联营，科恩家的大女儿姗德拉（凡妮莎•肖VinessaShaw饰）爱上了理纳德，但理纳德却爱上了偶遇的金发邻居蜜雪儿（格温妮丝•帕特洛GwynethPaltrow饰），然而不幸的是，蜜雪儿正与一位有妇之夫的律师罗纳德（伊莱亚斯•科泰斯EliaKoteas饰）陷入婚外恋。理纳德在爱情的煎熬中痛苦不堪，曙光与黑夜交替出现，让他无所适从。\r本片是导演詹姆斯•格雷即“纽约三部曲”后的第四部作品，也是金球影帝杰昆•菲尼克斯的息影之作。

电影起始于主人公泰德的乔迁派对，结果却变成了一个折磨人的夜晚。每个派对参加者都在努力面对他们的过去，都被那一生中最糟糕的遗憾往事所困扰。。。

What begins as a housewarming party for Tad, turns into a tormenting night, leaving each attendee grappling to face their past, haunted by their own worst regrets.

An unhappily married man, who doesn't know how to break up with his wife, asks a womanizing Casanova to seduce her so that she'll leave him instead. But as he witnesses how his wife gets closer to the Casanova, he begins to change the way he sees her and, soon, realizes that he's made the worst mistake any husband can make.