在这部珍禽假意喜剧/剧情/悬疑片中,威廉赫特(William Hurt)大显绅士矜持和中年沧桑的近年佳作。这次赫特饰演胸怀理想的大厨戴夫，在人迹罕见的纽芬兰悬崖上开了家高级法国餐厅，初时自然门可罗雀，好在蛊惑邻居出谋献策，谣传此区出现珍贵海鸟，刹时间观鸟者蜂涌而来，戴夫的餐厅亦成为潮流热点。谁知蛊惑邻居是福星，也是祸星，不但随他来餐厅打工的姨仔（《私人红灯区》的茉莉·柏嘉Molly Parker饰）把戴夫推进恋爱迷雾，他秘藏的白色粉末更招来各路英雄对餐厅虎视眈眈......导演史托拉根那逊获誉为加拿大电影的新希望，把一部黑色喜剧拍得风趣脱俗、佳句连篇。三主角一冷一热一娇，化学作用强，演绎男性友谊和忘年奇恋亦是情味浓郁。
Dave is down. His wife lives in Washington, D.C.; his restaurant, the Auk, in an out-of-the-way Newfoundland inlet, is a bust; a drink is rarely out of reach. An odd-duck of a neighbor, Phonce, who has found ten kilos of cocaine and wants Dave's help selling it, contrives to keep Dave in town by faking and reporting the sighting of a rare bird. Soon birders descend from everywhere, and the restaurant is a success. Dave is snorting the cocaine and falling for a young visitor who helps him out at the Auk, Phonce is launching his recreational submarine, and various men who don't look like birders are poking about. When the chickens come home to roost, will Dave and Phonse have a Plan B?
