Gerry and Sewell are broke. Gerry's still at school and Sewell is unemployed. They both wish for better things in life. Owning two season tickets to their beloved football club is their biggest dream of all. The tickets cost £1000 - they're £1000 short. But they are nothing if not resourceful, and they set themselves a mission to raise the cash. While they think up increasingly outlandish money making schemes - from selling junk to shoplifting and the odd bit of housebreaking - real life begins to interfere with the pair's final scam going hilariously awry landing them in jail, only to discover that their punishment gets them exactly where they want to be!

一群勉强糊口的英国矿工组织一队全男班的业余铜管乐团，在音乐中找到开心，可惜由于矿场面临倒闭危机及一名年轻女子加入，使到这群业余乐手优心忡忡，再无心奏乐……
电影讲的是工业化带来的采矿工厂倒闭，社区潦倒，为生活挣扎的人们依然追求尊严和音乐的理想。

Mike Lawton, Maurice Horton, and Melvin Orton are three men who come to Venice. One of them is a hit man sent to take out a mobster. Another is a lech looking for a little action with a woman he never met, whom he was set up with. And one of them was sent by his employer to inspect a property his boss wants to buy. All three men stay at the same hotel. But when the bellboy gets their names mixed up and gives info meant for someone else. So one of them meets a Realtor who will whatever she has to, to close the sale. And another follows a woman looking for romance. And another goes to the home of the mobster who thinks he's sent there to kill him.

After the death of her father, Little Voice or LV becomes a virtual recluse, never going out and hardly ever saying a word. She just sits in her bedroom listening to her father's collection of old records of Shirley Bassey, Marilyn Monroe and various other famous female singers. But at night time, LV sings, imitating these great singers with surprising accuracy. One night she is overheard by one of her mother's boyfriends, who happens to be a talent agent. He manages to convince her that her talent is special and arranges for her to perform at the local night club, but several problems arise.

科林（科林·费斯 Colin Firth 饰）是一名诗人，他深爱着名为薇拉（明妮·德里弗 Minnie Driver 饰）的女子，然而不久之后，薇拉即将成为别人的新娘。深受打击的科林一时之间无法从情绪之中抽离，于是决定前往一座宁静的小镇度假换换心情。
在当地的旅馆内，科林结识了曼蒂（海瑟·格拉汉姆 Heather Graham 饰），曼蒂是一名护士，个性温柔而又开朗的她渐渐治愈了科林内心的创伤，科林发现自己不再去想薇拉了。随着时间的推移，两颗心越靠越近。可就在这个节骨眼上，薇拉忽然放弃了婚礼，跑来找科林，旧爱新欢都在眼前，科林一时陷入了犹豫之中，不知该做出怎样的选择。

2008 film directed by Mark Herman