Plot Summary:Jerry Falk and David Dobel, who meet at a business meeting, become fast friends. Their commonality is that they are both fledgling New York based comedy writers, largely writing material for stand-ups, are Jewish (although David is an atheist), and are each of bundle of different neuroses. Their big difference is that Jerry is twenty-one, while David is sixty, with forty more years worth of life experience, knowledge and neuroses. While Jerry writes full time - he also working on a novel - David has kept his day job as a public school teacher just in case. In their relationship, David becomes somewhat of Jerry's mentor, providing advice on Jerry's life issues, most which revolve around the fact that Jerry is a product of inertia, he having trouble leaving anyone. That's why Jerry's still with the one and only manager he's ever had, Harvey Wexler. Jerry not only being Harvey's only client (which is a testament to his effectiveness in the job), Harvey also has a 25% take as stipulated in their contract, which he wants to extend for another seven years. That's why Jerry is still in therapy with a psychiatrist who has done him no good, and who advised Jerry to stay in therapy with him as opposed to taking a job in Los Angeles. But that not being able to leave largely applies to his love life. Jerry already has one divorce, his wife who left him. He is having problems with his current girlfriend Amanda, who he believes is the love of his life. He fell in love with her at first sight, when he was already in a cohabitational relationship with Brooke, and Amanda dating Jerry's friend, Bob Stiles. Even after Jerry began sleeping with Amanda, he could not be up front with Brooke about the situation, he leaving her to figure out his lies. What Jerry is unable or unwilling to see is that Amanda not only manipulates him, but that he focuses on the things between them that make them truly compatible, while disregarding those many more things which make them totally incompatible. What has made their relationship more difficult of late is that her mother, who is trying to find herself, has moved in with them in their small apartment. Despite David's unique view of life, he may be able to see Jerry and Amanda's relationship more clearly as an objective bystander. The question becomes how much of David's advice Jerry will take in its entirety.
从看到阿曼达（克里斯蒂娜·里奇 Christina Ricci 饰）第一眼起，杰瑞（贾森·比格斯 Jason Biggs 饰）就深深的爱上了她，尽管此时的杰瑞身边已有佳人相伴而阿曼达亦名花有主，但这残酷的事实依旧无法阻挡杰瑞渴求阿曼达的心。并且，撇开世俗道德不谈，两人也确实是天设地造的一对。 就这样，都并非“自由身”的两人走到了一起，而他们之间的私情很快就东窗事发了，杰瑞的女友和阿曼达的男友选择退出，杰瑞终于可以名正言顺的和阿曼达出双入对了。如果你以为故事到这里就结束了那可真是大错特错，好不容易在一起的杰瑞和阿曼达之间发生了巨大的分歧和矛盾，两人之间的感情眼看着岌岌可危，为此，杰瑞向自己的导师大卫（伍迪·艾伦 Woody Allen 饰）求助，殊不知，这个在自己眼中无坚不摧的男人，在生活上其实也千疮百孔。
