- Colleagues Les and Natalie are delayed in the Albuquerque airport. Restless, irritated, and unable to stand the service workers he meets at every turn, Les heads downtown. Natalie refuses to leave his side and discovers that his supposedly aimless wandering has more of a point than he is willing to admit. Natalie conceals secrets of her own, though neither can keep them quiet f...
- Sheltering from the 1918 Spanish Flu at their seaside estate, a Progressive journalist and his socialite wife take in a mysterious grifter as a private cook. But when the plague descends on the posh island, the family and staff find themselves cut off from society and, like castaways, struggling to survive. The new cook sees an opportunity to rouse his fellow staff to re-think their stations and have the run of the mansion for themselves. Their employer suspects the cook’s coup is part of a far more sinister agenda. It is not long before the mind games between master and servant breed an all-out war for dominance over the home. Social restraints crack apart. And civility gives way to animal instincts that lurk beneath…
- 哈里（丹尼·德维托 Danny DeVito 饰）和泽尼亚（雷亚·普尔曼 Rhea Perlman 饰）两夫妻，一个是商人，一个是赌棍，两人再也没有想到的是，他们爱情的结晶，小小的玛蒂尔达（玛拉·威尔逊 Mara Wilson 饰）竟然是个世间罕有的天才。应玛蒂尔达的要求，完全忽视她的教育的父母将她送进了康琴小学，一段新的旅程在玛蒂尔达面前就此展开。 身为康琴小学的校长，特拉齐布尔小姐（帕姆·费里斯 Pam Ferris 饰）喜欢听话而温顺的孩子，身为铅球高手，她解决问题的唯一方法就是武力。和暴力的特拉齐布尔小姐完全相反的是一年级老师汉尼小姐（艾伯丝·戴维兹 Embeth Davidtz 饰），她的温柔和耐心让玛蒂尔达如沐春风。聪明的玛蒂尔达发现汉尼小姐似乎有着一些无法结局但又说不出口的难处，她决定用自己的力量帮助汉尼小姐。
