خلاصه داستان : یک روانشناس موفق بعد از اینکه یکی از بیمارانش در تعطیلات خانوادگی او را بشدت مورد تعقیب قرار می دهد، عقلش را از دست می دهد و دیوانه می شود...

Before going on vacation, self-involved psychiatrist Dr. Leo Marvin has the misfortune of taking on a new patient: Bob Wiley. An exemplar of neediness and a compendium of phobias, Bob follows Marvin to his family's country house. Dr. Marvin tries to get him to leave; the trouble is, everyone loves Bob. As his oblivious patient makes himself at home, Dr. Marvin loses his professional composure and, before long, may be ready for the loony bin himself.

خلاصه داستان : پس از مرگ کارفرمایش او را مجبور به ترک تنها خانه‌ای می‌کند که تا به حال می‌شناخت، یک باغبان ساده‌اندیش و پناه‌دار به مشاوری غیرمحتمل برای یک سرمایه‌دار قدرتمند و یک فرد داخلی در سیاست واشنگتن تبدیل می‌شود.

A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television.