Gwen grows up with her romantic mother constantly telling her the story of her courtship and marriage to her father. Nick grows up with an alcoholic father who can't hold a job and whose family, as a result, is forced to move all the time. The two are shaped by this - Gwen a romantic and Nick withdrawn, unsure of himself - as they watch the hugely popular sixties sitcom, "One Big Happy Family." Years later, it is the star of that show, now a child actor gone bad with a history of detox and people always saying, "I thought she was dead," Francesca Lanfield, who connects the two of them, after years of near-misses and almost encounters. Gwen is hired to ghost-write Francesca's autobiography, while Nick, becoming her lover, is the architect who is to design a building on Francesca's property. When Gwen decides to crusade to save Francesca's building, she writes letters to the newspaper which catches Nick's attention - and wins his heart.

　　当铺大乱斗讲述的是一枚丢失的结婚鑽戒，将几个猎捕野雁的人们和吸毒者、光头党还有模彷猫王的艺人卷在了一起。

　　圣诞老人斯科特（蒂姆·艾伦 Tim Allen 饰）决定举办一场盛大的家庭聚会，这一次，他请来了妻子卡罗尔（伊丽莎白·米切尔 Elizabeth Mitchell 饰）的父母，好让他们一家人团聚。与此同时，卡罗尔的腹中已经怀上了斯科特的骨肉，他正在非常激动的情绪之中等待着这个小生命降临。
　　那边厢，克隆圣诞老人杰克（马丁·肖特 Martin Short 饰）一直没有放弃过取代斯科特的幻想，他决定趁着这个节骨眼，让他的阴谋卷土重来。斯科特带领儿子查理（艾力克·洛伊德 Eric Lloyd 饰）、前妻劳拉（温迪·古逊 Wendy Crewson 饰）、矮人首领柯蒂斯（史宾塞·布瑞斯林 Spencer Breslin 饰）等朋友们，一起对抗杰克的诡计。

　　三位大导演的三个小故事：楼上：《俄狄浦斯的烦恼》，讲述一个被母亲困扰的男人；楼中：《没有伊佐的生活》，讲述了小女孩伊佐与印度小王子和自己的父母的感情；楼下：《生命之课》，一个画家暗恋自己的女助手，失恋与幸福同样刺激她的灵感。