一项伟大的新技术被科学家们发明了出来,通过这项技术,能够将人类缩小到仅5英尺那么高,这也就意味着,人类将因此消耗更少的资源,获得更大的活动空间。保罗(马特·达蒙 Matt Damon 饰)和奥黛丽(克里斯汀·韦格 Kristen Wiig 饰)是一对深陷贫困之中的夫妻,为了享受更好的生活,他们决定去接受缩小实验。哪知道就在实验即将进行的前一秒,奥黛丽竟然反悔了,只有保罗一人缩身成功。
刚开始,对于变小的保罗来说,一切都是那么的新奇,他住进了专门为缩小人所建立的社区之中,有了前所未有的全新体验。但随着时间的推移,问题逐一显现,小人的社会和大人比起来,并没有好过到哪里去,更糟糕的是,保罗和妻子因为身形的巨大差异,感情出现了裂痕。
Sherlock Holmes is hired by the King of Bohemia to retrieve a compromising photograph from a certain lady. The King has tried to purchase the photo and even hired burglars to retrieve it, but without success. The woman in question is the very beautiful Irene Adler, an opera singer. She has made no demands of the King so it does not seem that blackmail is her intent. Using various disguises, Holmes learns as much about the woman as he can and is surprised when, after following her to a church, finds that she has married a barrister. Holmes stages a bit of theatre to get her to divulge the location of the photo but he finds he has met his match in both daring and intellect.
A young woman's corpse is dumped in the library of Gossington Hall, home of Jane Marple's friend Dolly Bantry and her husband Arthur. Pompous Chief Constable Melchett suspects a connection with Basil Blake, an arty young man who lives locally but Blake is dismissive when Melchett visits him. Then Superintendent Harper rings from the coastal town of Danemouth. Ruby Keane, a young girl employed as a dancer at the Majestic Hotel there, has gone missing, and her cousin Josie Turner identifies the corpse as Ruby's. Ruby is in favour with millionaire Conway Jefferson, whose own son and daughter were killed in a wartime air raid, and he wants to adopt her. His son-in-law Mark Gaskell, and daughter-in-law Adelaide react variously to the news. Miss Marple is convinced that the solution to Ruby's murder may be found at the hotel and she and Dolly book into a suite to investigate.