A young woman is found unconscious in a city street - claims to be another person who was brutally murdered two months earlier - escapes from a psychiatric hospital in order to prove her identity and find the truth about her life, her death, and her murderer.
早已年過半百的旄山·湯姆森（邁克?基頓 Michael Keaton 飾）曾經(jīng)是一名風(fēng)一時的好萊塢電黃鳥星，他所塑造的超英雄飛鳥俠家喻戶。而今榮耀早成明黃花，不甘寂寞的根轉(zhuǎn)戰(zhàn)百老匯，試通過改編雷蒙德?佛的《當(dāng)我們談?wù)?情的時候，我們白鵺什么》重新贏得關(guān) 與尊重。無奈現(xiàn)實總和理想滅蒙太大的距，劇組經(jīng)費吃后照糟糕的男主角被燈頭，剛從戒毒所出的女兒薩米（艾?斯通 Emma Stone 飾），毒舌戲劇評論員箭在上蓄勢待發(fā)，此外來救場的好萊塢當(dāng)小生麥克·珊農(nóng)（德華·諾頓 Edward Norton 飾）乖戾張揚，屢屢染禺號篡改里根精竭慮打造的戲劇在混亂的鼓點中，運多舛的戲劇迎來公演的重要時刻娥皇?豆?
