在破旧的纽约公寓，我们找到了阿道夫·罗洛和他的500页脚本。 因为隔壁邻居的折磨，自己的怀疑，以及财务破产，阿道夫发布了一个广告，向最高出价者提供他的庞大剧本。 这时，乔，快速来接拍，他承诺制作这部电影，但他有自己独特的想法来为拍摄电影融资。之后，闹出的一系列笑话和面临的悲惨命运，成为他们不可逃避的难题。　　本片在1992年圣丹斯电影节获得评审团大奖。

史提夫巴西米饰演剧中之导演尼克李维。它描述导演尼克在导一部戏时错误百出，笑料连篇的剧情。为了不使剧情过于突兀，并保持连贯性，尼克在剧中以夸张的动作，帮倒忙的演出。剧中导浪尼克，有一群共事的人员，包括带头的电影放映师大狼，摄影师所用的道具灵感来自比利爱达及史弟芬维史特两位人员。尼可是一位有天份但又有点神经质的女演员；她和男演员查德帕罗米洛有过一段情史，但后来对他却又爱又恨。另外导演助理由丹尼尔饰演刻中铁石心肠的人物，汪达。还有不断出现剧中的甘草人物，贾佛。

A comic celebration of dreamers and their dreams, LIVING IN OBLIVION is the second film written and directed by Tom DiCillo. With a tone that teeters somewhere between Kafka and the Marx Brothers, it chronicles the hilarious misadventures of a group of people who have joined together to accomplish one of the most difficult goals imaginable - the making of a low-budget independent film. With an innovative and surprising structure that shifts fluidly between the movie being made and those making it, the film offers a rare and accurate -- if comically heightened -- look behind-the-scenes, with the people who make the scenes. How they make them -- and the fact that they manage to make them at all -- is what LIVING IN OBLIVION is all about.　　Starring Steve Buscemi as director Nick Reve, LIVING IN OBLIVION highlights a day on the set of Nick's film where everything that could possibly go wrong, actually does. Struggling against ever-escalating odds to maintain his integrity and his sanity, Nick is both helped and hindered by his bumbling, if well-intentioned crew, headed by his cinematographer Wolf (Dermot Mulroney), a cameraman whose leather gear suggests that he is more inspired by Billy Idol than Sven Nykvist; a leading lady, Nicole (Catherine Keener), a talented but neurotic actress who is involved in a romance and a rivalry with her leading man, Chad Palomino (James Le Gros); an iron-willed assistant director, Wanda (Danielle Von Zerneck); and, for the first time ever on-screen, a Gaffer.