这是一部真实的电影，真实展现了日军偷袭珍珠港的历史。美军插手太平洋战场，日军最高将领山本五十六（山村聪 Sô Yamamura 饰）认为美军实力强大，应速战速战，不宜和美国人打长久战。于是，由他一手策划的偷袭珍珠港行动正式启动了。

斯蒂尔（亨弗莱·鲍嘉 Humphrey Bogart 饰）是一名编剧，一次偶然中，他结识了名叫米尔德里德（玛莎·斯图尔特 Martha Stewart 饰）的女子，当晚，斯蒂尔邀请米尔德里德到家中研究剧本，没想到第二天早晨，米尔德里德却被发现死于非命，一时间，斯蒂尔成为了最大的嫌疑人。

Riley Thomas (Abigail Hawk) is a rising star at one of the world's most noted holding companies. With Christmas fast approaching, she is sent to the small town of Chestnut, Vermont to evaluate the assets of one of their companies, an outerwear clothing manufacturer. As she begins making plans for liquidation, she hires the company's founder, Nick (Howard Hesseman)-now retired-as her apprentice to help. Of course, everyone assumes she's there to save the company and she keeps her true motives a secret. In the process, she comes to appreciate what the company means to the small town; and she falls in love with its youthful CEO, Wyatt (David O'Donnell). She slowly comes to embrace the small town's values and even helps create a new product line just in time for Christmas. As her priorities change and her love grows, will Riley be able to stand up to her boss, Preston Bullock (Chevy Chase) and save the company she was supposed to destroy?