Care-free Charlie cons his widower brother-in-law Herb into an expenses-paid luxury cruise in search of rich, lonely ladies. The catch is that they are required to be dance hosts! With a tyrannical cruise director, and the luscious Liz and lovely Vivian, our heroes have lots of mis-adventures before they finally return to port.

本片根据真人真事改编，是美国CBS广播公司旗下电影部门制片的第一部影片。
约翰·克罗雷（布兰登·费舍 Brendan Fraser 饰）和妻子艾琳（凯丽·拉塞尔 Keri Russell 饰）育有三个子女，除大儿子之外，另两个孩子都患有庞贝氏症。在二女儿的一次并发症发作濒危抢救后，约翰冲动之下飞去了内布拉斯加大学求见庞贝氏症研究领域中的领先专家罗伯特·斯通希尔教授（哈里森·福特 Harrison Ford 饰），并许诺将成立庞贝氏研究基金，支持斯通希尔教授的研究，尽快将理论成果用于药物实践。不通人情的斯通希尔教授为约翰一家的真诚所动，决定辞职与约翰共同建立生化创业公司，致力于庞贝氏症药物的研发。为了给新公司拉投资，约翰不得不克服一系列困难，甚至频频惹恼已经极难相处的斯通希尔教授，全力以赴和死神赛跑……

An emotionally-beaten man with his young daughter moves to his ancestral home in Newfoundland to reclaim his life.

An orphaned dinosaur raised by lemurs joins an arduous trek to a sancturary after a meteorite shower destroys his family home.

2000 film directed by Lasse Hallström

A lonely boy discovers a mysterious egg that hatches a sea creature of Scottish legend.