John Kent (Randolph Scott), a former star football player at Harvard, goes to Paris with his friend Huck Haines (Fred Astaire) and the latter's dance band, the Wabash Indianians. Alexander Voyda (Luis Alberni) has booked the band, but refuses to let them play when he finds the musicians are not the Indians he expected, but merely from Indiana (Huck Haines and his Indianians Band).
John turns to the only person he knows in Paris for help, his Aunt Minnie (Helen Westley), who owns the fashionable "Roberta" gown shop. While there, he meets her chief assistant (and secretly the head designer), Stephanie (Irene Dunne). John is quickly smitten with her.
Meanwhile, Huck unexpectedly stumbles upon someone he knows very well. "Countess Scharwenka", a temperamental customer at Roberta's, turns out to be his hometown sweetheart Lizzie Gatz (Ginger Rogers). She gets Huck's band an engagement at the nightclub where she is a featured entertainer.
Two things trouble John. One is Ladislaw (Victor Varconi), the handsome Russian deposed prince and doorman who seems too interested in Stephanie. The other is the memory of Sophie (Claire Dodd), the snobbish, conceited girlfriend he left behind after a quarrel over his lack of sophistication and polish.
When Aunt Minnie dies unexpectedly without leaving a will, John inherits the shop. Knowing nothing about women's fashion and that his aunt intended for Stephanie to inherit the business, he persuades Stephanie to remain as his partner. Correspondents flock to hear what a football player has to say about feminine fashions. Huck gives the answers, making a lot of weird statements about the innovations John is planning to introduce.
Sophie arrives in Paris, attracted by John's good fortune. She enters the shop, looking for a dress, but is dissatisfied with everything Stephanie shows her. Huck persuades her to choose a gown that John had ordered discarded as too vulgar. When John sees her in it, they quarrel for the final time.
John reproaches Stephanie for selling Sophie the gown. Terribly hurt, Stephanie quits the shop. With Roberta's putting on a fashion show in a week, Huck takes over the design work, with predictably bad results. When Stephanie sees his awful creations, she is persuaded to return to save Roberta's reputation.
The show is a triumph, helped by the entertaining of Huck, Countess Scharwenka, and the band. (A pre-stardom Lucille Ball, with platinum blond hair, appears uncredited in her first RKO film[4] as a model wearing an elaborate feather cape, after the vocal by Dunne, in the fashion show.[5]) The closing sensation is a gown modeled by Stephanie herself. At the show, John overhears that she and Ladislaw are leaving Paris and mistakenly assumes that they have married. Later, he congratulates her for becoming a princess. When she informs him that Ladislaw is merely her cousin and that the title has been hers since birth, the lovers are reunited. Huck and Lizzie, who decide to get married, do a final tap dance sequel.
这部电影比小偷家族探讨更多的则是女性议题，从女性生育到社会眼光下的男女平等，它脱离了传统眼光下素英作为母亲需要展现的那种母爱，而是更多地去描绘社会底层妓女这个身份给她带来的矛盾与纠结。后半段的泪点很多，打动我的并不是那些温馨和情感，而是通过素英的嘴所呼喊出来的女性渴望被尊重、渴望拥有自由处置自己身体的权利。
太——日了，韩国演员和日本电影真的不太兼容，也就裴斗娜这种有“去国别感”的演员才能两头适应了
为啥我感觉这片十分无聊？一点也看不进去。女人跟着人贩子一起找下家，过程中分享了各自经历，培养了感情的故事。 唯一一场还有点味道的是当第一对夫妻想买孩子，男的因为嫌弃孩子眉毛而想分期付款，还批评了几句。结果被女人狂怼“自己都长得獐头鼠目的还批评孩子长相”。
卖孩子的临时团伙的旅行生活。看完后感觉并没有那么惊艳，也确实是导演是枝裕和一贯的风格，平静却又温暖人心。也有点像翻版的《小偷家族》，只不过“小偷”变成了贩卖人口“掮客”
试图用温情去包裹苦难，丝毫没有想着去批判，实在有些平庸。“谢谢你出生”这样的话怎么能说得出口。
依旧是探讨血缘亲情故事，中年离异的掮客大叔，卖淫杀人逃亡的女子，从小被遗弃的孤儿男人，从养育院偷跑出来的孩子，几个各有缺憾的人组成一个临时的“五口之家”，踏上贩卖婴儿的旅途。交易屡屡不顺，卖孩子的冲动也愈发动摇，一路跟踪他们的女警察也心软了。开头阴暗潮湿有点韩影味儿，中间相处越来越温馨，是枝裕和的味儿开始出来了。不过结局有点莫名，说是为了孩子的成长着想，结果最后算是有了三对parents，这不更混乱了...堕胎有罪的台词也有点令人不适。节奏很慢，在是枝裕和和宋康昊的作品里都不算出彩的。
This is getting old already.
略失望，只能从只言片语里感受到导演往日的身影 还能看到更好的是枝裕和吗
过期演员尼古拉斯凯奇变身CIA特工。前面半小时很无聊差点就放弃了，后面凯奇被招募协助CIA破案才稍微好看点，总体就一般般。
我恰恰不认为这是是枝裕和的自我重复，而是认为这是对其理念的背叛。是枝裕和电影常常关于一个家的拼凑，但打动我们的不是拼凑而是家。导演要表达的是“家为何物”不是“爸爸是什么母亲是什么孩子是什么”。《步履不停》怯懦儿子的归来，《无人知晓》在角落死去的孩子，《如父如子》生养割舍的来回电锯，《小偷家族》强迫的爱可以粘出一个家吗的自我否定。是枝裕和的电影常在点化和棒喝，他不会让爱庸俗化。
抛弃与重拾的故事，但是叙事铺得太开，导致切口不深。所以同样是以临时家庭为单位、以弃婴为线索，东京教父就比掮客的人物更饱满也更具张力
不可避免地把这部电影和《小偷家族》进行比较，同样是关注社会底层边缘人群拥抱取暖，一个离异一个妓女两个孤儿，在卖子的路途上感情越来越深，被助者和施助者依然形成了一组背叛与情感的矛盾体，他们在两位警察的视角下，呈现出了人与人相处最真实的情感。
emmm no comments 是枝裕和这个风格和类似题材已经熟练到可以流水线生产 韩国篇 法国篇 不知道下一次会在哪个国家
是枝裕和公式标准化流程作业。主旨仍着力于骨肉血亲的社会议题，欠缺以往作品刺骨的批判，注入更多直白的情天泪海。确实是天主教人道精神瞄得上的温情系。
我爱的凯奇总算演了部好口碑的电影啦，之前虽然都是还债片，但演的也都不差啊。这一部影片算是讨巧的，和他本人超级契合。也只有他可以在银幕前把自己演的那么颓废。
是枝裕和的这一套还是回到东亚语境下最合适。好的是真相里面的那种别扭和不自然，在这部都看不到了。然而本片更像是是枝裕和对自己的小偷家族的一次无聊重复。与此同时，还不太委婉的掺杂进了一些不太现代的价值观。无所谓对错，但是会有些不适 @SFF2022
是枝裕和二十年反反复复讲同样的故事主题，在《小偷家族》之后到了这部同质化严重的《掮客》，更腻了…始于能深刻探讨的东亚议题，终还是流于表面。它拍成了鸡汤童话，无论是人设还是故事，都极其平庸。完全置于真善美的大背景下，几个角色形象缺乏立体，没有弧光，看不出变化，情感的转折与彼此的连结也无比薄弱，部分场景的台词令行为动机难以理解（例如天台与警察对峙堕胎那段，力不从心），因此主题根本得不到深化，与观众的共鸣完全脱节。
导演过分温柔了，竟然连碰上的人贩子都是有苦衷的好人，现实生活没有那么甜。影片一如既往有着导演过往作品中的温馨时刻，只是这一次的温馨背后，却没有足以打动人的现实的不堪、残酷。
对身边每一个人说谢谢，几个人寻找买家的经过看成了一个混搭家庭的旅行，这是另一部小偷家族，这些人怀着并不光明的企图，却发生了真善美的化学反应，孩子是催化剂，所有的选择都是为了孩子能有一个更好的成长环境，也算是这些大人对自己错走的路的弥补。
所以，我也想对任何一个有可能会看到这条评论的人说：
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