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.
而加菲所有关于内心戏的舞台独白段落，像是在突破第四面墙与观众对话，却让整个片更像舞台剧，也让它比看上去更适合剧院而不是做成电影。
因为不是百老汇粉丝，所以触动不是很大，无非就是梦想与现实作斗争的故事，主线很单薄，包括一些生活困境也就是没交上电费在餐馆打工这样的设定，都仰仗音乐出色以及演员卖力表演，倒数计时既是快到而立之年的时间警示，如今看又是男主短暂生命的预言，加菲唱得还不错，前女友石头姐靠音乐片得影后，看他自己能不能冲个影帝提名。
没想到人物弧光落在了白人男性觉醒，然后开始尊重女性和LGBT权利。就这点屁事从13年《为奴十二年》到现在了还在拍。
炎夏酷暑吹空调看唐顿，没有比这再清凉的事了
wb上有人发了一条《爱乐之城》的石头姐遇见《倒数时刻》的加菲，还有人发了一条超凡蜘蛛加菲遇见平行宇宙Spider-Woman Gwen，感觉吃了双份的过期玻璃渣狗粮...............
怀念他们一起长大，儿时的下午最美好
老夫人去世，临死还来了一个桃花事件，额外得到一棟法国的别墅，主人心甘情愿给。玛丽参与电影制作了，剧情没有1好玩
工整到乏味的电影，歌也完全无感，加菲表演得太夸张，即使是真实事件改编我也完全无法共情。我一直在猜测，也许这是一部科幻片，《傲慢》的故事变成了现实，“倒数时刻”指的是世界末日，他没有时间了，因为再写不出好歌来地球就要爆炸了……好吧，是我想多了
电影还行吧。但乔纳森的经历更让我触动，他在《吉屋出租》开演之前就去世了，这让他成为一位最纯粹的艺术家和理想主义者。
加菲太适合扮演这个角色，演技好、与原型像。
这么多季了精气神还在，超棒。以及，好想去南法度假……
好处一是没有做成一个串讲，而是截取了一周的时间来映照一生，二是ttm原本是带有自传性质的作品，音乐是参与了叙事的，缺点大概还是四平八稳甚至俗不可耐，电影感不够，舞台和电影有剥离感，说到底还是想唱就唱，mv串烧，而且不知是刻意为之还是力所不逮，淡化了社会和时代背景。但作为导演处女作和音乐片，已经值得肯定了，观感流畅，节奏好，对于主角本人的指摘我觉得也恰是优点之一，就是呈现出了创作者的自我、偏执、孤独和痛苦，也是他的才华所在和灵感来源，呈现了舞台的高不可攀又触手可及，艺术家的孤独和爱，we all leave with an unfinished song. 加菲太好了！
年度惊喜，加菲表演太精彩了，剧情流畅，感情细腻，配乐更是美妙。主角团队演唱的每一首歌都超级好听，故事中透露着力量。导演用的叙事手段很高明和传记本尊故事一样激动人心，紧扣人心。一场无与伦比的视听盛宴。
tick tick boom
差点以为拍电影这条线会变阿加莎疑案，想起来这是英国主旋律。老夫人的金句依然是唯一记忆点，托亲家老太太的福，把“大表哥”的亲属关系和辈分讲得倍儿清楚，再不用二杆子们瞎问答了。
而现实里龙套很多，主角只有一两个。
又丧又燃
一个艺术家的牢笼还是羽翼，你更喜欢哪个？去问飞鸟吧。
大型音乐剧，剪辑非常棒。吵架分手的时候心里还想着怎么写成歌，太真实了。。
故事有质感，但歌曲整体而言稍逊了一筹。这个和Rent给我的观感是大致一样的。就这部电影而言，另一个问题在于，最好听的歌和最重要的几场戏，没能搭配起来。当然要解决这个问题，已经超出了电影创作者的能力范畴了。除此之外，都还算不错。
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