蓋布麗（安琪拉·瓊斯 Angela Jones 飾）的童年里有一段非常可怕的經(jīng)歷，年幼的她曾經(jīng)在兇殺現(xiàn)場親眼目睹死尸。這一段奇異的人生經(jīng)歷讓蓋布麗開始對尸體和死亡產(chǎn)生了好奇之心，這股子好奇隨著她年齡的增大越發(fā)強(qiáng)烈起來，蓋布麗甚至?xí)匾獾氖詹貓蠹埳系闹\殺新聞做成剪報冊，時時翻閱溫習(xí)。　　邁阿密接連發(fā)生兇殺案，被害者均是養(yǎng)尊處優(yōu)的闊太太，而且無不身首異處。這起連環(huán)殺人案件很快就吸引了蓋布麗的注意，為了能夠更加接近命案現(xiàn)場，蓋布麗來到了一間專門清理命案現(xiàn)場的保潔公司應(yīng)聘成為了員工，并且在機(jī)緣巧合之下同連環(huán)殺人犯（威廉·鮑德溫 William Baldwin 飾）有了一面之緣。

　　1982年，英國傳奇重金屬樂隊(duì)Spinal Tap搖滾樂團(tuán)紅極一時。電影導(dǎo)演馬蒂（羅伯·萊納 Rob Reiner 飾）是Spinal Tap樂團(tuán)的一位忠實(shí)粉絲。Spinal Tap樂團(tuán)要來美國舉行一次復(fù)出巡演，馬蒂則為Spinal Tap樂團(tuán)拍攝隨行紀(jì)錄片。本部仿紀(jì)錄片刻意杜撰出一個英國搖滾樂團(tuán)Spinal Tap，活靈活現(xiàn)的刻畫出了搖滾樂團(tuán)臺上臺下表里不一的嘴臉，對當(dāng)代搖滾樂做出了尖銳的諷刺和嘲諷。　　本片由羅伯·萊納自編自導(dǎo)自演之作。影片中的電影音樂均由演員們親自演奏創(chuàng)作而成。

　　Anna is stuck: she's approaching 30, living like a hermit in her mum's garden shed and wondering why the suffragettes ever bothered. She spends her days making videos using her thumbs as actors - thumbs that bicker about things like whether Yogi Bear is a moral or existential nihilist. But Anna doesn't show these videos to anyone and no one knows what they are for. A week before her birthday her Mum serves her an ultimatum - she needs to move out of the shed, get a haircut that doesn't put her gender in question and stop dressing like a homeless teenager. Naturally, Anna tells her Mum to "back the f-off". However, when her school friend comes to visit, Anna's self-imposed isolation becomes impossible to maintain. Soon she is entangled with a troubled eight year old boy obsessed with Westerns, and the local estate agent whose awkward interpersonal skills continually undermine his attempts to seduce her.

兩位堅(jiān)定的父親展開一場滑稽的爭奪，爭奪讓孩子進(jìn)入一所精英幼兒園，最終升級為一場荒誕的競爭，結(jié)果出乎意料。