故事的灵感来源于真实发生的一起经济案件。本·斯蒂勒扮演的乔什是一名兢兢业业的豪华大楼经理。二十多年来，他一直竭尽所能带领手其他工作人员，保证大楼里居民安全舒适的生活。大楼顶层公寓住着一个亿万富翁亚瑟，大家都很信任他，甚至还把自己的养老金拿出来给他去做投资。突然有一天，亚瑟被警察从家中抓走，罪名是他从投资人那里偷走了20亿美元的资金，其中当然也包括乔什和其他人的养老金。愤怒的人们决定进行报复，他们要抢劫亚瑟的顶层公寓，把自己的养老金拿回来。不过整幢大楼已经被警察控制，而且乔什等人一辈子都没坐过犯法的事，更不用说是抢劫。为了确保万无一失，乔什把骗子斯莱德从监狱里保释了出来，让他教给大家抢劫的方法，并计划这项不可能实现的犯罪。面对自己工作了很多年的大楼，乔什和朋友们终于下定了决心去拿回属于自己的那部分钱，可是过程跟他们想象的并不一样。
猎头专员Dane Jensen为家庭拼搏，经常忙到不可开交，即使过节也没法陪孩子。终于等到上司Ed Blackridge宣布退休，Dane有望击败头号竞争对手接管公司。然而就在这时，十岁儿子被诊断出患上血癌。突如其来的坏消息乱了他的阵脚。要追逐梦想，还是陪伴家人，他不得不做出选择。
单身母亲布兰达（安吉拉•巴塞特饰）带着三个年幼的孩子堪称孤苦伶仃地在冰冷的大城市芝加哥为生活打拼着。为了不让自己的三个孩子流落街头并能吃饱穿暖，布兰达日以继夜地努力工作。转眼间，这样忙碌艰苦的日子持续了好几年。直到有一天，布兰达突然被辞退，失去了工作的她也丧失了家里仅有的经济来源。曾经坚强无比的单亲妈妈此生终于第一次感到了彻底的绝望。
备受争议的对冲基金巨头比尔·阿克曼 (Bill Ackman) 正发起一场运动，揭露全球营养品巨头康宝莱 (Herbalife) 是历史上最大的金字塔计划，而康宝莱 (Herbalife) 的高管则声称，阿克曼 (Herbalife) 是一个市场操纵者，目的是让他们破产，并从他的十亿美元空头中赚取一笔。
The adventures of the beautiful, enigmatic and always surprising Dr. Helen Magnus, a brilliant scientist who holds the secrets of a clandestine population called Abnormals—a group of strange and sometimes terrifying beings that hide among humans. Magnus seeks to protect this threatened phenomena as well as unlock the mysteries behind their existence.
A young boy, J. Shuro, meets the legendary pitcher Eiji Sawamura in the Philippines during World War II. Sawamura shares his dreams of one day gathering the nine Astro Superhumans – who all were born nine minutes and nine seconds past nine on September 9th of the 29th year of Showa (1954) and all have baseball-shaped birthmarks on their bodies – to form the ultimate baseball team capable of beating the Yomiuri Giants and any U.S. Major League team. When Sawamura dies during the war, Shuro decides to help fulfill his idol’s dream and goes in search of the nine ball players. But the team that is formed does not play ordinary ball. These extraordinary players demonstrate extraordinary plays on the field and some will not stop until everything – even their lives – is left on the field.
