维奥莱特（派珀·佩拉博 Piper Perabo 饰）是个小镇姑娘，21岁时独身一人来到纽约闯荡，试图实现自己的音乐梦想，但命运并没有厚待她，住进狭窄小屋，经历一次次碰壁后，维奥莱特几近走投无路，偶然的机会，她来到一家名叫“女狼俱乐部”的酒吧，结识了泼辣自信的女老板（玛丽亚·贝罗 Maria Bello 饰），成为她们中间的一员。“女狼俱乐部”是由一群女孩子们做主导的特色酒吧，她们每个都性感美艳，夜里用火辣舞蹈和精湛的调酒技术赢得客人欢心，维奥莱特获得了登台演唱的机会，也结识了凯文（亚当·加西亚 Adam Garcia 饰）开始一段爱情。维奥莱特最终明白，追梦的路途，需要克服的最大困难还在于自己……

　　从看到艾丽莎（乔伊·劳伦·亚当斯 Joey Lauren Adams 饰）的第一眼起，霍登（本·阿弗莱克 Ben Affleck 饰）就知道自己在劫难逃，可接下来的消息对霍登来说无疑是一记噩耗，漂亮开朗的艾丽莎居然是一个完完全全的女同性恋者。得知了死党的遭遇，班克（杰森·李 Jason Lee 饰）为此十分打抱不平，他告诉霍登他的恋情并没有走入绝望的境地，并且表示愿意在此方面助他一臂之力。
　　随着时间的流逝，艾丽莎和霍登之间产生了真挚的感情，一段良缘眼看着就要结成，这时的班克才发现自己内心中充斥着的竟然全是负面的感情，他并不希望霍登能够得到艾丽莎的垂怜，而他和霍登之间的友谊也开始出现了裂痕。

　　專題另一部默片來自德國的喜劇之王劉別謙，是他應美國傳奇女星瑪麗碧克馥之邀到荷里活執導的首部作品《風流歌女》（1923）。同是曲折的愛情故事，大師靈巧優雅的電影語言及自成一家的「劉別謙筆觸」，令美國觀眾為之傾倒。

　　邦尼（艾丹•奎因 Aidan Quinn 饰）在汽车修理厂工作。他有一个智障的妹妹琼（玛丽•斯图尔特•马斯特森 Mary Stuart Masterson 饰）令他非常操心。为了照顾妹妹，邦尼一直单身，因为他不想把琼送到专门的疗养院。某一天，邦尼和琼遇到了一个不速之客——邦尼朋友的远房亲戚萨姆（约翰尼•德普 Johnny Depp 饰）。这个萨姆行为古怪，他在酒吧里可以用面包玩出花样，还会模仿经典影片的桥段，逗大家开心。于是，邦尼邀请他做自己妹妹的保姆。在相处中，两个年轻人渐渐建立了一种特殊的感情。同时，邦尼也遇到了心上人路西（朱丽安•摩尔 Julianne Moore 饰），但是对妹妹的责任感让他对这段恋情有所忌惮。或许是出于对妹妹的爱，他拒绝萨姆的请求，结果萨姆带着琼私奔了。但是，因为改变环境，琼开始发疯，她被强制送进了医院……

　　胖女孩特蕾西（尼科尔·布朗斯凯 Nicole Blonsky 饰）生长在60年代的一个普通美国家庭。她迷上了一个电视选秀的舞蹈节目，并梦想能站到舞台上发光发亮。然而特蕾西的母亲，自小因为肥胖而缺乏自信，常常担心肥胖是特蕾西的绊脚石。不料特蕾西在节目中的出色表现，令她的前途顿时开阔。甚至大家对她的喜欢，胜过了本来非常得宠的艾姆伯小姐（布兰特妮·斯诺 Brittany Snow 饰）。
　　欢喜之余，特蕾西却迎来了事业的急剧转折。一方面，艾姆伯为了保住地位，不惜用尽卑劣手段力挽狂澜，甚至不惜勾引特蕾西的父亲，使得其家庭不和。另一方面，当时社会严格实行种族隔离，特蕾西还陷入了一场种族斗争之中，危险的形势随时会把她的事业前途毁于一旦。

　　胡格（杰森·罗巴兹 Jason Robards 饰）遭到了信赖的朋友塔格里（L·Q·琼斯 L.Q. Jones 饰）和布温（斯特罗瑟·马丁 Strother Martin 饰）的背叛，身无分文险些丧命。在一片荒漠之中，胡格意外的发现了一处水源，于是，他打起了卖水的主意。
　　牧师约书亚（大卫·沃纳 David Warner 饰）指责胡格不应该将公共资源据为己有，于是胡格前往附近的小镇，将这片地买了下来，紧接着，他又凭借着三寸不烂之舌说服了当地的银行家投资兴建旅店。与此同时，胡格邂逅了被小镇上的居民居住出镇的妓女西堤（斯黛拉·斯蒂文斯 Stella Stevens 饰），胡格收留了她，两人之间产生了真挚的感情。

　　城市女孩安娜（艾米·亚当斯 Amy Adams 饰）与男友杰里米（亚当·斯科特 Adam Scott 饰）相恋四年，共同申请购买波士顿顶级豪华社区的高尚住宅。安娜本以为杰里米要向自己求婚，失望后听从父亲建议，飞往爱尔兰首都都柏林，打算依照爱尔兰传统，在闰年的2月29日这天向在都柏林参加医学会议的杰里米求婚。没想到飞机遭遇气流，迫降威尔士加的夫。安娜从加的夫雇船航行至爱尔兰丁格尔半岛，狼狈不堪中投宿当地青年德克兰（马修·古迪 Matthew Goode 饰）的海滨旅店。德克兰同意次日开车带安娜前往都柏林，一路上二人相互看不顺眼，争吵不休。争执中又遭遇车坏、暴雨、误点、假扮夫妻投宿农家等爆笑事件，可这一对冤家却也在不断的摩擦中彼此了解，情愫渐生。2月29日终于到来，安娜的一颗芳心究竟要托与何人呢？

　　一对姐妹花。姐姐罗斯（托妮•科莱特 Toni Collette  饰）有点肥胖，朴实不晓打扮，律师的职业让她生性严谨保守，难以俘获男人的心，买回来的高跟鞋只敢收藏在家——正因为这样，她沉浸在爱情小说里。她的妹妹麦琪（卡梅隆•迪亚茨 Cameron Diaz 饰）则相反，虽然同穿一个码数的高跟鞋，麦琪却光艳照人得多，男人从来逃不过她的手掌。
　　这天被后母赶出家门的麦琪投靠到姐姐门下，姐姐虽知麦琪任性，却也收留。不料麦琪竟然和自己的男友搭上。姐妹裂痕更深，二人形同陌路。麦琪流离失所，来到佛罗里达的祖母家。她和祖母素未谋面，却在那里得到了很多珍贵的提示，姐妹本是同根生……

　　John Kent (Randolph Scott), a former star football player at Harvard, goes to Paris with his friend Huck Haines (Fred Astaire) and the latter's dance band, the Wabash Indianians. Alexander Voyda (Luis Alberni) has booked the band, but refuses to let them play when he finds the musicians are not the Indians he expected, but merely from Indiana (Huck Haines and his Indianians Band).
　　John turns to the only person he knows in Paris for help, his Aunt Minnie (Helen Westley), who owns the fashionable "Roberta" gown shop. While there, he meets her chief assistant (and secretly the head designer), Stephanie (Irene Dunne). John is quickly smitten with her.
　　Meanwhile, Huck unexpectedly stumbles upon someone he knows very well. "Countess Scharwenka", a temperamental customer at Roberta's, turns out to be his hometown sweetheart Lizzie Gatz (Ginger Rogers). She gets Huck's band an engagement at the nightclub where she is a featured entertainer.
　　Two things trouble John. One is Ladislaw (Victor Varconi), the handsome Russian deposed prince and doorman who seems too interested in Stephanie. The other is the memory of Sophie (Claire Dodd), the snobbish, conceited girlfriend he left behind after a quarrel over his lack of sophistication and polish.
　　When Aunt Minnie dies unexpectedly without leaving a will, John inherits the shop. Knowing nothing about women's fashion and that his aunt intended for Stephanie to inherit the business, he persuades Stephanie to remain as his partner. Correspondents flock to hear what a football player has to say about feminine fashions. Huck gives the answers, making a lot of weird statements about the innovations John is planning to introduce.
　　Sophie arrives in Paris, attracted by John's good fortune. She enters the shop, looking for a dress, but is dissatisfied with everything Stephanie shows her. Huck persuades her to choose a gown that John had ordered discarded as too vulgar. When John sees her in it, they quarrel for the final time.
　　John reproaches Stephanie for selling Sophie the gown. Terribly hurt, Stephanie quits the shop. With Roberta's putting on a fashion show in a week, Huck takes over the design work, with predictably bad results. When Stephanie sees his awful creations, she is persuaded to return to save Roberta's reputation.
　　The show is a triumph, helped by the entertaining of Huck, Countess Scharwenka, and the band. (A pre-stardom Lucille Ball, with platinum blond hair, appears uncredited in her first RKO film[4] as a model wearing an elaborate feather cape, after the vocal by Dunne, in the fashion show.[5]) The closing sensation is a gown modeled by Stephanie herself. At the show, John overhears that she and Ladislaw are leaving Paris and mistakenly assumes that they have married. Later, he congratulates her for becoming a princess. When she informs him that Ladislaw is merely her cousin and that the title has been hers since birth, the lovers are reunited. Huck and Lizzie, who decide to get married, do a final tap dance sequel.