本片改编自美国作家沃尔特•肯的同名小说。瑞恩•布林厄姆(乔治•克鲁尼 George Clooney 饰)供职于美国内布拉斯加州奥马哈市一家专为其他公司提供裁员服务的公司,一年有300多天辗转于全国各地解雇他人,几乎以机场为家。在一次例行裁员旅行中,瑞恩遇到了商务美女亚历克斯(维拉•法梅加 Vera Farmiga 饰),二人一见钟情,却都满足于维系随意的性伴侣关系。与此同时,瑞恩公司的大学生新人娜塔莉(安娜•肯德里克 Anna Kendrick 饰)得到了公司总裁的青睐,竭力推广通过网络视频会议远程裁员的改革。瑞恩反对变革,却不得不带娜塔莉四处实习熟悉业务…… 本片获奥斯卡最佳导演、最佳影片、最佳男主角(乔治•克鲁尼)、最佳女配角(维拉•法梅加 和安娜•肯德里克)及最佳改编剧本六项提名,金球奖最佳导演、最佳影片等六项提名,并获洛杉矶影评人协会最佳剧本奖。
In 1965, Bob Crane, who had achieved some earlier success as a television supporting actor, was working as a successful morning radio DJ at KNX Los Angeles. Despite enjoying his work, photography (especially of the female form) and drumming, Crane wanted to be a movie star. So it was with some reluctance that he accepted the title starring role in a new television sitcom called Hogan's Heroes (1965), a WWII POW comedy. To his surprise, the show became a hit and catapulted him to television stardom. The fame resulting from the show led to excesses and a meeting with home video salesman and technician John Carpenter, with who he would form a friendship based on their mutual interests, namely excessive sex (for Crane, purely heterosexual sex) and capturing nude females on celluloid. His fame allowed Crane to have as much sex as he wanted, which was incongruent to his somewhat wholesome television friendly image, and the way he portrayed himself to almost everyone except Carpenter and his...