Michael Dorsey(达斯汀·霍夫曼 Dustin Hoffman 饰)是一个没什么名气的演员,混迹在一些小话剧和肥皂剧中,最近和经纪人George Fields(西德尼·波拉克 Sydney Pollack 饰)闹翻了,因为经纪人不愿意帮他的下一部话剧找投资,更认为他不可能再找到工作了。为了筹到钱来演他的室友Jeff(比尔·默瑞 Bill Murray 饰)所写…
Broke Edith murders and assumes the identity of her recently widowed, well-to-do twin sister Margaret, who had married Edith's former flame 20 years before. Can she fool the servants and the authorities and keep her new-found wealth?