Avery Malone, a wannabe writer and lonely librarian, gets her big break when she's hand-selected to assist her hero, reclusive author, Caleb Conrad. Whisked away to Caleb's remote estate, Avery is given her one and only task; to participate in a controlled psychological experiment in fear that will serve as the basis for Caleb's next novel.
道格（西·威廉·科特 Seann William Scott 飾）是一個30歲的男人年齡的增讓壓在他頭的負擔來越重，子想要住大房子的望也成為他辛勤工的動力。于自己經助理的職，道格很滿意，而在他企圖變的時候機會來了經理打算開一間連超市，而直矜矜業(yè)的道格則為了超市理的不二選，然而就在這個骨眼上，個名叫理德（約?C·賴利 John C. Reilly 飾）的男的出現卻破了道格美夢。作競爭對手道格和理德之間的系十分緊。前者希能夠實現子的愿望而后者則望著靠獲經理的職挽回對自心灰意冷妻子。面自己的理，兩個男都發(fā)誓絕退卻，一激烈的爭在表面平的氣氛下暗的展開。?豆?
