时运不济的纽约人马迪亚斯从父亲处继承了一间巴黎公寓，他来到巴黎准备将公寓卖掉，却意外发现房子里有两个“钉子户”-来自英国的老女人马蒂尔德和女儿克洛伊，根据复杂的房产规定，如果房东卖掉房子的话，多年的租户马蒂尔德将有权向马迪亚斯索取月租，直到她去世为止。

　　无处可去的马迪亚斯与母女俩达成暂住协议，私底下的他却仍然联系地产开发商打算卖掉房子，这令克洛伊对马迪亚斯心存戒备。然而当萍水相逢的两个人发现自己有众多共同之处的时候，他们的感情会有怎样意想不到的发展？老态龙钟的马蒂尔德又隐藏着什么不可告人的秘密？

老戏骨Maggie Smith 演技无可挑剔，英式英语、美式英语和法语的交织看得很带劲。情节稳稳铺陈，很显功力。表面上看着可能会有些闷，但静心看完之后，会折服于演员们对几个人物的心理起伏的展示，和对大小矛盾的处理。

几段台词很出彩：

Love is a limited substance. When you give love to someone new, you have to take it away from someone old. My father took every ounce of love he had and dumped it in Paris. People like us think we've been cursed by God, but, in fact, we've been cursed by our parents. You look in the mirror, and you see an adult. But you have to look more carefully. There's a big piece of you that never grew up. It may have grown tall, but not up. You spend your life waiting for your parents to come back and make it all right. But they don't come back. It's not all right. You have to somehow move past them. You have to somehow convince yourself that you don't need those people. Because you don't.