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　　A film version of a play Fassbinder directed in Hamburg, Clare Booth Luce's "The Women". It gave Fassbinder an opportunity to indulge his passion for working with women - there are forty women in the play and no men.　　The play dates from the 1930s, and Fassbinder was accused by the critics of being anti-women (a frequent criticism of late). As usual, he chose to work "against" the text, and from this has constructed an entertaining and engaging play about love between upper-class women with nothing better to do than sneer at others when things go wrong with their lives and loves.

　　中年单身程序设计师马特决定要当父亲，通过面试找到26岁的咖啡店服务生安娜代孕生子。安娜因与家人关系僵化，搬至旧金山，她希望通过代孕能获得供自己完成学业的钱。在孕期马特积极介入安娜的生活，事无巨细，安娜也逐渐接受马特的亲密，彼此敞开心扉，建立了一段不太寻常的友谊。

　　在民政局工作的陈二小（陈佩斯 饰）和舅舅（魏宗万 饰）是新旧两代白事工作者。陈二小的红白理事会提倡白事新办，响应法律号召推行火葬；他舅舅是位老资格的大了，坚决捍卫土葬风俗，与此同时向丧家放高利贷从中渔利。陈母（赵丽蓉 饰）年逾古稀，老脑筋一时无法转变。她生怕儿子将自己烧 掉，加上娘家哥哥煽风点火，陈母立逼着二小立下土葬的字据。　　寿辰前夕，二小的姐姐（丁嘉丽 饰）和姐夫（倪大红 饰）送来一口大红棺材祝寿，这让陈母的心事彻底了结。风水先生算出陈母须在农历九月期间躺在棺材里去阎王爷处报名，同时为了检验二小的孝心，陈母和哥哥想出假死的馊主意，由此也引出一连串惹人发笑的荒诞闹剧……

　　911接線員艾莉絲是個生活孤單的年輕女性；某天，她居然收到一份詭異的快遞：一副棺材！驚嚇之餘、不得已只能將棺材暫放客廳的艾莉絲，為了找出寄送者的身分，展開一場怪誕旅程。送棺材給她的，究竟是鬼屋主人、殯葬業者，還是與她分分合合的前男友賽斯？這一切背後又有什麼離奇動機呢？