Bertram Pincus (Ricky Gervais), un dentista antipático, muere durante unos instantes durante una intervención médica rutinaria. A partir de ese momento adquiere el don de ver personas muertas que le piden ayuda para ponerse en contacto con los vivos.
Mr. Popper (Jim Carrey) es un poderoso empresario que se queda un tanto descolocado cuando recibe como herencia nada menos que... ¡6 pingüinos! Obviamente, su cuidado no es una tarea sencilla, circunstancia que provoca ciertos problemas tanto en el trabajo como en el hogar de dicho individuo. Sin embargo, también le servirá para comprender el valor de la amistad y de la familia.
Mobster "Baby Face" Martin returns home to visit the New York neighborhood where he grew up, dropping in on his mother, who rejects him because of his gangster lifestyle, and his old girlfriend, Francey, now a syphilitic prostitute. Martin also crosses paths with Dave, a childhood friend struggling to make it as an architect, and the Dead End Kids, a gang of young boys roaming the streets of the city's East Side slums.
Waldisney trabaja como portero en un edificio donde la confusión es constante. Sin embargo, el funcionario es experto en mantener cierto orden. Cuando lo acusan injustamente de robar algo, tendrá que demostrar que es cualquier cosa menos un ladrón.
A nursing student forced to quit school for family reasons winds up taking a job as a doorman in an elite apartment building in New York City, where he sparks to one of his residents.
The Hardys wish to have a quiet evening in their apartment, but are interrupted when the Laurels pay a visit. Stan and Ollie go out for ice cream, and manage to prevent a shrewish woman from committing suicide on the way back home. The woman is ungrateful and makes threats against the them unless they look after her. They spend a chaotic evening trying to keep her hidden from their wives.
A 19 year old girl named Ashley Cotton finds a set of tapes that lead her down a path of horror and supernatural mysteries, as she embarks on a journey to find the root cause of the government branch only known as the AERD