The film consists of ten different stories. Each story tells the tale of someone defying one of the ten commandments. Paul Rudd narrarates the film, but also commits a crime against the commandments as well. Here is a run-down:
1. A guy (ADAM BRODY) becomes an accidental hero after falling out of a plane
Thou shalt have no other gods before me
2. A librarian (GRETCHEN MOL) has a sexual awakening in Mexico with a swarthy local (JUSTIN THEROUX)
Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth
3. A husband (A.D. MILES) skips church with his family to get naked with his friends and listen to Roberta Flack
Remember thou keep the Sabbath Day
4. A mother (KERRI KENNEY-SILVER) enlists an Arnold Schwarzenegger impersonator (OLIVER PLATT) to be a father figure to her children
Thou shalt honor thy mother and father
5. A doctor (KEN MARINO) kills his patients "as a goof"
Thou shalt not kill
6. A man (PAUL RUDD) presents all of these stories to the audience while struggling with his own moral dilemma: having to choose between his beautiful wife (FAMKE JANSSEN) and his also beautiful, but somewhat younger, mistress (JESSICA ALBA).
Thou shalt not commit adultery.
7. A woman (WINONA RYDER) falls in love with, and then steals a ventriloquist's puppet
Thou shalt not steal
8. A Rhinoceros learns the pitfalls of gossip
Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor
9. A prisoner (ROB CORDDRY) covets his fellow inmate's "wife"
Thou shalt not covet thy neighhors wife
10. A police detective (LIEV SCHREIBER) covets his neighbor's Cat Scan machine
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbors goods
I'm anxious to see how all this goes down!
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