聚会的目的：开始

　　影片改编自真实故事，讲述两名时运不佳的音乐人（休·杰克曼与凯特·哈德森 饰）组成一支充满欢乐气氛的尼尔·戴门致敬乐团，证明了寻找爱情和追逐梦想永远不会太晚。

　　美国海军上校尼尔逊（沃尔特皮金饰）领导潜艇海景号在北极下探测时，地球突生危机，大气层被一股大火燃烧，令地球极速升温，地球上干旱无雨，顿诚人间炼狱。科学家主张纷歧，尼尔逊决定由海景号发射核子飞弹，让其在大气层外爆炸以期熄灭大火，令地球降温。为求能够快速解决这个问题，尼尔逊毅然由船员自愿选择是留在船上还是继续前进，但是在全世界都没有办法的情况下，只有听命于尼尔逊的这个计划了……

　　The main character is Dr. Max Holst, a successful neurosurgeon. One day an intense little man named Steinmetz shows up, who has the real ability to create objects out of thin air, using only his mind. As no one believes him at first, he is held at a ward for mental patients, but manifests the key to his door and escapes. As he has a special interest in Dr. Holst, Steinmetz subsequently invites Holst to his large mansion, which is full of expensive paintings and sculptures, and proves to him that he can in fact materialise objects. Steinmetz’s abilities are evolving by leaps and bounds, and is progressing from being able to create objects only to being able to create living things. His ultimate ambition is to be able to create a human being. He tells Dr. Holst that if he will only perform a certain brain operation on him, Steinmetz will become able to attain his goal. He’s got all the necessary equipment set up in his basement. Dr. Holst, however, is too spooked by the whole thing to agree to this mad scheme, and refuses. Steinmetz then sets about manipulating Holst’s life, to pressure him into performing the operation. By then Steinmetz has become able to create a temporary human being, and in the hope that he can perhaps make his own creation perform the operation, he manifests a doppelganger of Dr. Holst. This double proceeds to take over Dr. Holst’s life, creating chaos for him professionally and personally. And then Dr. Holst starts fighting back. The ending has the dual virtue of being both unexpected and satisfying.