大导演大卫·里恩的一部优秀的喜剧类型影视作品，主演有罗伯特·牛顿西莉亚·约翰逊埃米·维内斯约翰·米尔斯凯·沃尔什。Noel Coward's attempt to show how the ordinary people lived between the wars. Just after WWI the Gibbons family moves to a nice house in the suburbs. An ordinary sort of life is led by the family through the years with average number of triumphs and disasters until the outbreak of WWII.