影片故事根据真实事件改编，痴心詹姆斯·默里博士（梅尔·吉布森饰演）领导下的编委会要进行新版本的《牛津英语字典》的编辑，痴心以当时的人力科技水平，完成字典的编撰要一个世纪才能完成，詹姆斯·默里博士开创性的采用了全民参与的方式，让全英使用英语的人一起为字典收集词条定义，并通过寄信的方式发送给编撰组。在收集定义过程中，他们发现了一个叫W.C.迈纳（西恩·潘饰演）的医生独自贡献了一万多条引语，这是一个专业语言学者都很难完成的工作量。当编委会决定向他致敬时，一个惊人的事实曝光了：原来迈纳医生，是美国内战时期部队的一个军医，因为患有精神分裂症而犯杀人罪，被禁闭在精神病院，是一个被认为是疯子的人。一位教授、一个疯子，人类历史上最早的英语大词典就这样在两个迥然不同的人手中诞生。
回复 :影片讲述男孩比利(劳瑟饰)被母亲送到父亲身边，并转了学校，但保守的新学校压制着他。比利不得不采取行动，挑战学校权威，以获得“返校节皇后”的称号。
回复 :里昂市长保罗感到很不安。在从政三十年后他发觉自己已没有什么新思维，感到非常空虚。他的团队决定聘请爱丽丝，一位才华横溢的哲学家来为他解决这问题。爱丽丝与市长因而展开一连串的对话，这让他们经常接触，并且动摇了他们的信念。问题也逐渐出现：政治和反思是否能够兼容？
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回复 :Marg Duffield (Lee Remick) is the Maine wife of Al (Joseph Sommer) whose daughter Peg (Marlee Matlin) is deaf. Peg's husband is killed in a car accident on the way to visit the Maine house, and the Duffield's take in Peg's six year old daughter, Lisa, while Peg recovers. Since Lisa is a speaking child, Marg thinks of her the way she wanted Peg to be, and seeks guardian custody.Remick's role is secondary to Matlin's, though she is presented as a tragic figure, particularly as Al refuses to help her plan to gain Lisa. Peg's deafness is said to be from a childhood case of spinal meningitis, and the teleplay by Louisa Burns-Bisogno, with story by Louisa and Tom Bisogno, reduces Remick to a textbook mother who is self-hating from guilt and therefore cannot love her own daughter. In a memorable scene, Peg angrily signs her exit to Marg, since Marg has refused to learn sign language, though Peg has learned to speak for her mother.The treatment uses the Tennesee Williams play, The Glass Menagerie, for therapy, to help Peg overcome her grief and also Marg `lose her unicorn horn' and embrace her daughter. Whilst Peg choosing to act in this play may seem an odd choice for someone grieving, what is more noticable is that Matlin is far too more glamourous to be believable as Laura. The Bisogno's include Michael O'Keefe as Dan, Peg's deceased husband's best friend and director of Actors Theatre for the Deaf, to offer Peg a new romantic interest, and thankfully she rebukes his protestations of love. Although his opinion may be influenced by his `crush', Dan tells Peg that being different is better than being normal, since the normal ones are as `common as weeds'. This philosophy reads as rather Nietzschean, on the level of artists not being restricted to the common moral code.Director Karen Arthur either has those signing also speaking or those signing being translated for the audience, though in one scene the sound of lapping waves drowns out the dialogue between Dan and Peg. She also gives Matlin some good moments, one being her scream of horror when she hears the news of the death of her husband, and another when she chases Remick down a flight of steps, hitting her.
