电影筛选瑞秋（凯伦·皮斯托里斯 Caren Pistorius 饰）和丈夫正在分居之中，目前由她独自抚养着年幼的儿子凯伊（加布里埃尔·贝特曼 Gabriel Bateman 饰）。离婚事宜的商讨令瑞秋心力交瘁，睡过头的她眼看着就要迟到，却不巧碰上了高速公路大堵车。 明明是绿灯，瑞秋却被停在她前面的一辆大卡车拦住了去路，失去耐心的瑞秋狂按喇叭，哪知道却惹恼了卡车司机（罗素·克劳 Russell Crowe 饰）。卡车司机命令瑞秋为她的不礼貌而道歉，瑞秋拒绝了，此时的瑞秋还并没有意识到，自己已经引火烧身。卡车司机是一名精神病患者，刚刚放火烧死了要同自己离婚的前妻一家子。他掉包了瑞秋的手机，开始对她进行人肉搜索和疯狂报复。
故事发生在一间名为“鸟笼”的夜总会中，艾伯特（内森·连恩 Nathan Lane 饰）是其中的当家花旦，不仅如此，他和夜总会的老板阿曼德（罗宾·威廉姆斯 Robin Williams 饰）还是出双入对的同性情人。 某日，阿曼德同前妻所生的儿子瓦尔（丹·福特曼 Dan Futterman 饰）找到了老爸，喜滋滋的告诉他他即将带着未婚妻芭芭拉（卡莉斯塔·弗洛克哈特 Calista Flockhart 饰）前来造访。阿曼德在感到欣喜的同时亦十分紧张，因为芭芭拉的父母凯文（吉恩·哈克曼 Gene Hackman 饰）和路易斯（黛安娜·维斯特 Dianne Wiest 饰）是保守派人士，如果让他们知道了自己同艾伯特之间的关系，儿子的婚事可能就要岌岌可危了。于是，阿曼德开始劝说艾伯特，让他假扮成为一个正常人，表面上答应了阿曼德的请求，艾伯特的内心里却十分郁闷。
An expert at sleight of hand and with a keen eye for identifying charlatans and tricksters, our story begins as Harry has fallen on hard times in recent years, professionally and ethically losing his way. He’s resorted to making his living as a fake medium and fraudulent ghost hunter, conducting séances for unsuspecting families who think their lives have been made a misery by ghostly mischief making. Harry’s duplicitous lifestyle has also had serious consequences when after leading a séance for a tragic soldier a young man commits suicide on the doorstep of Harry’s home. A couple of months later, Harry is offered the chance to investigate the haunting of a local MP’s home as the case threatens to ruin the politician’s reputation. With the prospects of leading his political party, Edward Curtis can ill-afford the scandal as his wife Grace begins to hallucinate and act bizarrely and very much out of character as she believes their family home to be haunted. There’s a possibility Grace may be committed to an asylum in scandalous circumstances if Harry doesn’t take on the investigation. Ghosts from Harry’s past influence his decision to take the case and he begins to think it might be time to take a new path. Together with the Curtis family maid, Sarah Grey, whose own mother has fallen prey to con artist mediums in the past, their detection and investigative skills complement one another and they make a formidable partnership. Smart, driven and open-minded, Sarah is a strong-minded woman who can handle herself when unravelling the mysteries behind the hauntings, which are seriously affecting Grace’s health and well-being. Harry also calls on the services of his old friend, Albert, during the investigation. An African pharmacist with a sideline in voodoo con-artistry, Albert has a keen interest in medical and scientific discoveries, which Harry exploits to the maximum. Journalist Vernon Wall also finds himself in Harry’s orbit. Cynical and hard-bitten, although clever at winning the trust of the people he’s interviewing, Vernon is keen to learn about Harry’s techniques and sensing a political scandal sets out to inveigle his way into his life by extracting information from Sarah.
水木夫妇婚姻生活幸福美满。然后不幸降临到两人身上。因为丈夫的失误，公司遭受巨大损失，丈夫最终被调到肤浅的部门，整天盯着办公桌。当她的丈夫从他不喜欢的同事那里听说这件事时，他得到了一笔交易……
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