喜剧演员艾维·辛格（伍迪·艾伦 Woody Allen 饰）是这样一个人：非常介意自己的犹太人的出身；自认为有童年阴影，看了十六年心理医生没见好转却一直付钱看；有点阿Q精神，但对人生却充满消极；喜欢一直讲无聊的笑话。正因为自身的神经质特质，艾维经历了两次失败的婚姻。 　　艾维 遇到了安妮（黛安·基顿 Diane Keaton 饰）――一直梦想成为歌星的女孩，两人渐渐堕入爱河。安妮在艾维的帮助下歌唱技巧迅速提高，但她的父母却反对她与艾维来往。 　　安妮得到了唱片商托尼的注意，获邀前往好莱坞灌录唱片，艾维跟着前往了好莱坞向安妮求婚。Alvy Singer, a forty year old twice divorced, neurotic, intellectual Jewish New York stand-up comic, reflects on the demise of his latest relationship, to Annie Hall, an insecure, flighty, Midwestern WASP aspiring nightclub singer. Unlike his previous relationships, Alvy believed he may have worked out all the issues in his life through fifteen years of therapy to make this relationship with Annie last, among those issues being not wanting to date any woman that would want to date him, and thus subconsciously pushing those women away. Alvy not only reviews the many ups and many downs of their relationship, but also reviews the many facets of his makeup that led to him starting to date Annie. Those facets include growing up next to Coney Island in Brooklyn, being attracted to the opposite sex for as long as he can remember, and enduring years of Jewish guilt with his constantly arguing parents.