税务律师菲尔·福斯特（史蒂夫·卡瑞尔 Steve Carell 饰）与房地产经纪人的妻子克莱尔·福斯特（蒂娜·费 Tina Fey 饰）是居住在新泽西州的一对普通中年夫妇，育有两子，每日生活疲累而按部就班。受朋友分居的影响，菲尔心血来潮决定将每周末的晚餐约会改到城里，去曼哈顿新开张的一家海鲜餐厅就餐。没有预约的二人顶替了他人的位子，却没曾想吃到中途被两名陌生人挟持出餐厅，用枪威胁他们归还一个闪存。不明就里且吓得半死的福斯特夫妇想办法逃脱，找到克莱尔过去一位名叫霍尔布鲁克（马克·沃尔伯格 Mark Wahlberg 饰）的客户帮忙，却依然无法摆脱追杀。二人甚至还得假扮皮条客与舞女闯入黑帮头子乔·莫雷托（雷·利奥塔 Ray Liotta 饰）的脱衣舞厅周旋，洋相百出。
Lars Schelling runs a sushi-bar in Berlin in ca. 2001 that the Mafia finances. The Mafia wants its money back. Suddenly Lars's mother dies, and Lars himself gets followed and kidnapped. In fact, the Mafia has nothing to do with these latter events. It is rather former members of the East German state police. Lars's mother, it seems, had the documentation for a money laundering scam in the 1990s that funneled enormous sums from East German sources into a Swiss bank account for bribing government officials of the united Germany. The question is whether Lars learned the password to the Swiss lock box where the documentation is hidden before his mother's mysterious death. The press, East Germany's former state police, www.molikan.com and Germany's legitimate police all want to know. The question driving the plot, however, is who belongs to which group, whether Lars really knows the password, and what he will do with what he knows and has.
