比起2020年，2021年可说是不遑多让。本片以黑暗喜剧手法，结合真实新闻画面和照稿演出的访问，回顾这风云变幻的一年。
格雷戈（Ben Stiller 本•斯蒂勒 饰）准备向相恋多年的女友潘米拉（Teri Polo特莉•保罗 饰）求婚时，意外获悉了求婚成功成功与否，不仅要过美人关，更要过岳父关。潘米拉的姐姐下个礼拜即将举行婚礼，届时格雷戈将和潘米拉一起回家参加婚礼。小伙子心想这次正是讨好未来岳父，搞定岳父那关的大好时机。 格雷戈的名字在美语中很容易被理解成“同性恋•性交者”的意思，有着这么个稀奇古怪的名字，注定格雷戈拜见未来岳父之行不会如他所料那般顺利。 果然，当他们来到了潘米拉家时，格雷戈虽然表现得文质彬彬，但当他总是插话时力图幽默却效果相反时，未来岳父（罗伯特•德尼罗 Robert De Niro 饰）的脸色越来越难看。
Nathalie Adler is on a mission for the EU in Sicily. She organizes the next visit of Macron and Merkel to a migrant camp. Their presence has a high symbolic value to show that everything is under control. But who still wants to believe in this European family on the verge of a nervous breakdown? Probably not Albert, Nathalie's son, an NGO activist who arrives without warning. He, moreover, no longer believes in his mother.
TV MX, the most powerful Mexican Television Corporation, discloses a scandalous story involving Governor Carmelo Vargas in serious crimes and illicit business. Governor Vargas worried about his political future, decides to clean his image and negotiates a billionaire secret agreement with the owners of the TV Corporation. Carlos Rojo, an ambitious young news producer, and Ricardo Diaz, TV network star reporter, are responsible for making a dirty campaign to change the image the public has of the corrupt Governor and make him, at any cost, a political star and a great presidential candidate. Mexican Television believes that democracy is a farce and has already placed one President... Will they do it again?
难得空闲的上帝下凡找个老实巴交的代言人来四处宣传“上帝存在”这一概念，但扭转平民心中不解疑惑，还得显灵法庭来为自己辩解所谓的“存在”
二十世纪五十年代的美国，电视编剧Alfred Miller因为支持共产主义而上了黑名单，不能公开发表作品，于是找到了他的老朋友Howard Prince（伍迪·艾伦 Woody Allen 饰）让他用Howard的名字发表作品，并给他百分之十的佣金。于是Howard从一个生活拮据的餐厅收银员摇身一变成著名的电视剧编剧，他还找到了其他同样被列入黑名单的作家，当“出头人”。Howard还认识了电视台的一名女工作人员Florence Barrett（Andrea Marcovicci 饰），Florence十分欣赏Howard的才华，两人坠入爱河。演员Hecky Brown也是黑名单上的一个演员，他被要求去查出Howard的政治背景，但一无所获。后来，Florence因为她的共产主义主张辞职了，而Hecky也因为共产主义背景而不能继续其演员生涯跳楼自杀。目睹了Hecky葬礼的Howard感触颇多，于是当Howard接受委员会审查时，他与调查委员会展开了周旋.......
