Po tom, ako dlhoročný kongresman Cam Brady (Will Ferrell) spácha pred blížiacimi sa voľbami verejné faux pax, párik mega-bohatých CEO sa rozhodne situáciu využiť, nasadiť protikandidáta a získať tak vplyv nad ich obvodom Severnej Karolíny. Na túto akciu si zvolia naivného Martyho Hugginsa (Zach Galifianakis), riaditeľa lokálneho turistického centra. Spočiatku sa Marty nezdá byť práve tou najideálnejšou voľbou, ale s pomocou svojich nových mecenášov, manažéra tvrdej kampane a politickým stykom jeho rodiny sa čoskoro stáva súťažiacim, ktorý dáva charizmatickému Camovi dobrý dôvod na to, aby sa začal báť. S neustále sa približujúcim dňom volieb je súťaž stále nerozhodnejšia. Urážky sa stále stupňujú a nemajú konca. Jediným cieľom oboch kandidátov je zničiť toho druhého.

Dramatická komédia vychádza zo skutočného príbehu spisovateľa a pinballového mága Rogera Sharpa, ktorý sa snaží zrušiť 35 rokov platný zákaz hrania pinballu v New Yorku.

Madhavan (Dileep) is a clever thief who does robbery for a living. He is following the principles of his mentor Mullani Pappan (Mala Aravindan). Meesa Madhavan got his name by the popular saying that if Madhavan rolls his Mustache (Meesa in Malayalam) looking at someone, he will rob his house that night. His enemy was a local money lender Bhageerathan Pillai (Jagathy Sreekumar) who refused to give back his father's property. Madhavan falls in love in Bhageerathan Pillai's daughter Rukmini (Kavya Madhavan). The sub inspector in the village Eappen Pappachi (Indrajith) has an eye on Rukmini. He steals the idol from the local Temple with the intention of selling it and puts the blame on Madhavan. It becomes Madhavan's responsibility to find the culprits and he does that with his mentor's help and thus uniting with his girl friend.

One day, on a whim, Marc decides to shave off the moustache he's worn all of his adult life. He waits patiently for his wife's reaction, but neither she nor his friends seem to notice. Stranger still, when he finally tells them, they all insist he never had a moustache. Is Marc going mad? Is he the victim of some elaborate conspiracy? Or has something in the world's order gone terribly awry?

Follows a young teacher from Turkey whose goal is to establish a school in Kyrgyzstan.

All the qualified men line up to be chosen, as an heiress advertises that she will marry the man with the most interesting mustache, that marriage which comes with a mansion. John Syrup Soother wins the marriage to who he believes is the heiress, Olive Palmer, a tank of a woman who has lost her beauty with age. But he learns that he his betrothed is not the heiress, Diana Palmer, but her mother. Howson Lotts, a shyster and one of Diana's other suitors, sells John a beach-front house for his new life, that house which is not all that it seems on the surface. In the meantime, others still will do anything to be Diana's betrothed, that choice in which John now has a different but still vested interest.

Ambrose likes his mother's assistant, but when she inherits a fortune, the obstacles to their relationship keep mounting.

Andreas Hübner is an unfriendly official who interviews immigrants wishing to stay in Germany. One morning an Adolf Hitler moustache appears on his face. All efforts to remove the fascist identifier fail and Andreas ends up alone in a field asking God for help. The answer arrives in the shape of a yoghurt carton with a 1945 sell-by-date.

This town is too small for the both of them. And for their moustache.