被妻子抛弃的痛苦让警察弗兰克（阿尔·帕西诺 Al Pacino 饰）陷入了痛苦的深渊无法自拔，跳蛋每日，跳蛋只有尼古丁与酒精才能够给予他救赎。一宗谋杀案的发生打破了城市的平静，弗兰克和搭档舍曼（约翰·古德曼 John Goodman 饰）负责此案。通过种种调查，弗兰克发现凶手是一名女子，她通过报纸上的征友启事寻找猎物，之后残忍的将他们杀害。为了追击凶手，弗兰克伪造了自己的身份在报纸上刊登了启事，一个叫做海伦（艾伦·巴金 Ellen Barkin 饰）的女人出现在了他的面前。几乎所有的证据都证明了海伦就是案件的真凶，但此刻的弗兰克发现，自己竟然真的对海伦产生了依赖和感情，与此同时，危险也悄悄的来到了他的身边。
中坚份子
回复 :阿洪（莫少聪 饰）和女友阿梅（罗美薇 饰）相恋多年，两人之间感情十分要好。阿梅是含着金汤匙出生的千金小姐，在家中备受宠爱，因此，她和一穷二白的阿洪之间的恋情遭到了阿梅父亲的强烈反对。为了拆散这对爱侣，阿梅的父亲将阿梅带到美国定居，可是阿梅离开之时，她的腹中已经怀上了阿洪的骨肉。阿梅选择将孩子生在了美国，取名山姆，独自将他抚养长大。有一天，阿梅突然从美国返回香港，回到了阿洪的身边。原来，阿梅患上了不治之症，命不久矣，她希望在自己死之前看到父子两人团聚的场面。然而，当山姆得知阿洪就是自己的父亲时，却表现出了抗拒。
曾宝仪
回复 :尹天仇（周星驰 饰）一直醉心戏剧，想成为一名演员，平时除了做跑龙套以外，还会在街坊福利会里开设演员训练班。此时舞小姐柳飘飘在妈妈桑的带领下来到这里要求学做戏，原来柳飘飘有一段非常不愉快的经历，在尹天仇对她指导的过程中，柳飘飘对尹天仇渐生情愫，同时她也成为了夜总会里当红的小姐。尹天仇受到了极多白眼之后，终于得到了大明星鹃姐（莫文蔚 饰）的赏识，提携他担演新戏中的男主角，但没想到突然把他的角色换掉了，令他失望不已。在片场当场务的卧底警员（吴孟达 饰）身份被识穿，尹天仇阴差阳错的帮忙破了案。之后尹天仇继续活跃在街坊福利会的演员训练班里。
李正
回复 :A comic celebration of dreamers and their dreams, LIVING IN OBLIVION is the second film written and directed by Tom DiCillo. With a tone that teeters somewhere between Kafka and the Marx Brothers, it chronicles the hilarious misadventures of a group of people who have joined together to accomplish one of the most difficult goals imaginable - the making of a low-budget independent film. With an innovative and surprising structure that shifts fluidly between the movie being made and those making it, the film offers a rare and accurate -- if comically heightened -- look behind-the-scenes, with the people who make the scenes. How they make them -- and the fact that they manage to make them at all -- is what LIVING IN OBLIVION is all about.Starring Steve Buscemi as director Nick Reve, LIVING IN OBLIVION highlights a day on the set of Nick's film where everything that could possibly go wrong, actually does. Struggling against ever-escalating odds to maintain his integrity and his sanity, Nick is both helped and hindered by his bumbling, if well-intentioned crew, headed by his cinematographer Wolf (Dermot Mulroney), a cameraman whose leather gear suggests that he is more inspired by Billy Idol than Sven Nykvist; a leading lady, Nicole (Catherine Keener), a talented but neurotic actress who is involved in a romance and a rivalry with her leading man, Chad Palomino (James Le Gros); an iron-willed assistant director, Wanda (Danielle Von Zerneck); and, for the first time ever on-screen, a Gaffer.
