微笑的山谷[电影解说]

33岁的竹原乡子聪明漂亮，在一家女性杂志的编辑部工作，是个典型的日本现代职业妇女，既爱家庭又爱工作。丈夫竹原将一在一所中学任美术教师。他们有一个儿子竹原优。一个幸福的三口之家。
　　一天早上，将一突然离家出走，留下一封一个叫江津子的女人写给他的信，信上说：“我已住院，请别为了我，而迷失了你自己的路……”将一有了外遇？这个问题正在困扰着乡子时，又发生了种种事端。。。

Crusading journalist Maddie Magellan is instrumental in getting a man released from prison after serving nine years for a murder she believes he did not commit. The next day, the victim's widower apparently shoots himself after locking himself in his personal nuclear fall-out shelter. Investigators and engineers insist that no one could have gotten in or out of the shelter after the door was sealed. Yet those closest to the alleged suicide insist that his hands were so crippled with arthritis that he could not have run the bolts on the massive door, let alone pulled the trigger on a gun. Maddie coerces reluctant sleuth Jonathan Creek into investigating the case.

正当年的陈耀宗处长（陈佩斯 饰）刚刚结束出国考察，太太大桂（丁嘉丽 饰）和部下鞍前马后接风洗尘，在豪华的酒店为他摆了盛大的一桌酒席。原来陈处长即将荣任企业局局长，所有人都不愿放过这个大献殷勤的好机会。谁知好景不长，鉴于中央“精兵简政”的政策，党组决定撤销企业局，所以“陈局长”的名头也打了水漂。陈耀宗沦为编外人员，原来的办公室易手一家装饰公司，而该公司的老板正是曾经陈的下级、并且与之有过一段风流传闻的玛瑞（田岷 饰）。耀宗对妻子隐瞒实情，每天四处寻找工作。关键时刻，还是玛瑞对其伸出援手。
习惯了高高在上被人奉承的悠闲日子，陈耀宗不仅要调整心态，从最底层做起，还要挠破头皮处理感情上的问题。掉了毛的凤凰不如鸡……