影片故事发生在24小时之内,男主角Ben Burns富有魅力但又烦恼缠身,某个灾难性的圣诞节前夕,他回到了毫不知情的家里。母亲Holly Burns小心谨慎但热烈欢迎了她深爱的儿子,但随后发现他依旧存在着很大的问题,在这可能改变他们一生的24小时之内,母亲要竭尽所能避免家庭分崩离析。 万斯将饰演本的继父,他自己有一套教育孩子的方法,因此与Holly发生了直接矛盾。凯瑟琳·牛顿饰演17岁的妹妹Ivy Burns,是位漂亮的歌手,热爱兄长,但不相信他能够变为一个更好的人,不喜欢他对家庭造成的影响,但明白他对母亲的重要性,也知道应该帮助他走入正轨。。Set in an apartment building whose occupants include Arthur Earthleigh, a meek and mild type married to the beautiful-but-domineering Mae| a Bohemian artist, David Galleo and his always-there model, Deborah Tyler| and Olive Jenson, a Greenwich Village type who is always slightly-but-continuously inebriated, and whose motto is "love and let love." She calls on Arthur while his w...。