影壇兩大喜劇泰斗丹艾克洛德和艾迪墨菲,這樣的組合可說是上乘喜劇的絕對保證。因百萬富翁杜克兄弟一時的突發奇想,令出身上流社會,在投資顧問公司就職的路易斯(丹艾克洛德)與自小在貧民窟長大的比利雷(艾迪墨菲)在一夕之間互換身分。 這個現代版「乞丐王子」的故事,牽扯出一連串的笑料和出人意表的劇情轉折,當路易斯和比利雷得知自己只是兩個富人無聊時打賭的對象時,又會做出什麼樣的反應呢?
Professional daredevil and white-suited hero, The Great Leslie, convinces turn-of-the-century auto makers that a race from New York to Paris (westward across America, the Bering Straight and Russia) will help to promote automobile sales. Leslie's arch-rival, the mustached and black-attired Professor Fate vows to beat Leslie to the finish line in a car of Fate's own invention.
本片奪得36屆奧斯卡最佳影片、最佳導演、最佳男主角、最佳美術、最佳服裝、最佳音效等八項大獎,喬治庫克(George Cukor)導演,奧黛麗赫本(Audrey Hepburn)、雷克斯哈里遜(Rex Harrison)主演。賣花女伊莉莎長得眉清目秀,但出身寒微,她每天必須到街上賣花,貼補家用。 閒暇時她總喜歡哼哼唱唱,一天伊莉莎甜美的嗓音引起了語言學家希金斯教授的注意,教授誇口只要經過他的訓練,賣花女也具有上流社會的氣息。伊莉莎認為這是很好的機會,就請教授培訓她。 教授朋友皮克林因此和教授打賭,如果伊莉莎以名媛淑女形象出席6月份的大使遊園會而不被人識破真相,皮克林願意負擔伊莉莎一切的訓練費用。 自視甚高的希金斯接受了挑戰,他從最基本的字母發音開始教起,教授伊莉莎儀態、禮節…。後來有一次,希金斯帶伊莉莎去參加母親的家宴,年輕的爵士弗雷迪被伊莉莎的美貌和談吐自深深吸引著,一點也看不出她就是曾在雨中向他叫賣花朵的姑娘。 希金斯已經40多歲未婚,他總沒有看得上的姑娘,漸漸地生活上竟然離不開伊莉莎了,他的衣服飲食和生活起居完全依賴伊莉莎照料。然而使伊莉莎氣憤的是希金斯粗暴的脾氣。他教她文雅的禮儀,卻從不用文雅的態度對待她。 6月份終於來臨,希金斯滿懷信心地和伊莉莎、皮克林一起出席希臘大使的招待會。伊莉莎是以皮克林上校的養女身份參加這次的宴會,她全力以赴,在現場談笑自若,巧笑倩兮。當她出現在大家面前,人們停止了交談,欣賞她令人傾倒的儀態。她的待人接物圓熟又恰到好處,希金斯學生尼波姆克使出看家本領和伊莉莎周旋,被伊莉莎弄得暈頭轉向…..結果證明希金斯成功了。 回到家後,疲憊不堪的希金斯向伊莉莎大聲嘟嚷,伊莉莎自尊心受到了傷害,委屈之下,離開了希金斯的家。她在門口遇到了癡情的弗雷迪-他每天晚上都到伊莉莎窗下徘徊,默默地注視伊莉莎,伊莉莎終於被他的癡心感動。 雖然希金斯暴躁不堪,卻真心喜歡伊莉莎,在伊莉莎出走後感到十分苦惱,他得知伊莉莎已和弗雷迪在一起後,內心很痛苦,但仍然要幫助伊莉莎開一家花店。伊莉莎雖然已學會上流社會的儀態和談吐,但還是想回到原來的生活圈,但她希望擁有自己的生活,而不是留在上流社會虛情假意、矯揉作態。
A widowed mother and her son change when a mysterious stranger enters their lives.
Walter Burns is an irresistibly conniving newspaper publisher desperate to woo back his paper’s star reporter, who also happens to be his estranged wife. She’s threatening to quit and settle down with a new beau, but, as Walter knows, she has a weakness: she can’t resist a juicy scoop.
1872年,福特在倫敦俱樂部與幾位好友打賭他可以在80天環遊世界一周,第二天福特與男僕開始環遊世界,途中福特被誤認為銀行搶匪,遭受警察追捕,最後福特完成環遊世界八十天的壯舉。
Some of the boys from South Park Elementary find themselves on a balloon ride to an imaginary land. Upon their arrival they're faced with an unimaginable threat.
A rich businessman makes a bet he can survive on the streets of a rough Los Angeles neighborhood for 30 days completely penniless. During his stay he discovers another side of life and falls in love with a homeless woman.
Spendthrift Willie Hale again returns penniless to the family home in London. His father is none too pleased, but Willie smooth-talks him into letting him stay. At the same time he turns the charm on Dorothy Hope, whose father is big in linoleum and who, before Willie's arrival, was about to become engaged to a Russian aristocrat.
After a childhood of abuse by his evangelistic father, misfit Oscar Hopkins becomes an Anglican minister and develops a divine obsession with gambling. Lucinda Leplastrier is a rich Australian heiress shopping in London for materials for her newly acquired glass factory back home. Deciding to travel to Australia as a missionary, Oscar meets Lucinda aboard ship, and a mutual obsession blossoms. They make a wager that will alter each of their destinies.
A stockbroker bets his new partners $10,000 that he can tell tell the truth, and only the truth, for twenty-four hours.
Bickering husband and wife Tim and Sally Willows mutter a few angry words to a statue of Buddha and wind up living each other's life.
A young woman is torn between a wealthy suitor who wants her body and the honest young man who wants what's best for her.
Two Marine pilots vie for romance and glory.
A feisty Irish woman turns a truck driver into a championship boxer.
A young man bets $10,000 that for 24 hour he can tell nothing but the truth.
Bright young novelist Mabel Vere is engaged to Gerald Wantage, a prig who angrily objects when she advertises for a husband in order to elicit ideas for her new book. Mabel's roommate, Maud Bray, a physical culture expert, frightens away the less desirable suitors, while the writer responds to the more interesting letters, and soon becomes embroiled in a number of adventures.
An unemployed loafer who spends his time playing pool decides he's ready to look for a job so he can secure his girlfriend's parents' approval for their marriage.
The film centres around three friends who love their bachelorhood so much that they place a bet among themselves that whoever decides to marry first will lose a huge amount in shares that were contributed by all three. All is well until one decides to take the plunge and make a commitment.
In this comedy, two men make an extravagant $50,000 dollar bet that one of them will be able to successfully court a lovely woman without spending any money. To foil his scheme, the other bettor hires two henchmen to stop him.