在这部欢乐时光剧情/喜剧片中,背景设在当今的纽约，是一个关于爱情与获取爱情的风趣故事。曾经是文坛的希望之星的Tulley在等待时机成为一位广告界的编辑，他从玩世不恭变得学会包容，因为在他秘密写作小说之时领悟到声色犬马的生活终究会结束。他的挚友Levine和娜塔莉，也受尽了他的愤怒和抵制情绪，终于把他拯救过来。
Set in present day New York City, "Happy Hour" is a literate and often funny story of love and how to receive it. Tulley, a once-promising literary star now biding his time as an advertising copy editor, moves from cynicism to acceptance as he secretly hopes to write a great novel only to learn that his life of booze will end all too soon. Levine, his best friend and Natalie, the woman who might have saved him, suffer the pain of Tulley's anger and rejection.
