Nate, a 19 year old film student, and Margaret, a 52 year old spinster, are best friends in an odd, quirky, totally working kind of way... until Nate's audacious classmate Darla sets him up on a date with James. Nate's new life shakes apart his friendship with Margaret, who goes off on her own to start a career as a stand-up comedian.
在蕾贝嘉(维多利亚·阿布里尔 Victoria Abril饰)的童年时期,作为当红歌手的母亲(玛丽莎·佩雷德斯 Marisa Paredes饰)就为了事业而远走他乡,抛下女儿独自长大。蕾贝嘉一直想挽留母亲在身边,不惜间接害死继父,这一切都是枉然。 母亲的光彩太耀眼,蕾贝嘉尽其一生去模仿追赶,想要成为母亲那样的人;同时,母亲的无情和永远无法超越的高度,却令蕾贝嘉对她充满妒和恨。她当上了新闻主播,嫁给了母亲的旧情人,力图让自己变得强大。但是母亲回来后,和蕾贝嘉的丈夫爱火重生,这让蕾贝嘉非常生气。她一怒之下把丈夫杀死,并坦诚了自己的罪行。 蕾贝嘉入狱后,母亲反省自己和女儿的关系为何变成这样。她要赎罪,要把正当盛年的女儿从监狱里救出来,让蕾贝嘉继续寻找幸福的归宿。
An expert at sleight of hand and with a keen eye for identifying charlatans and tricksters, our story begins as Harry has fallen on hard times in recent years, professionally and ethically losing his way. He’s resorted to making his living as a fake medium and fraudulent ghost hunter, conducting séances for unsuspecting families who think their lives have been made a misery by ghostly mischief making. Harry’s duplicitous lifestyle has also had serious consequences when after leading a séance for a tragic soldier a young man commits suicide on the doorstep of Harry’s home. A couple of months later, Harry is offered the chance to investigate the haunting of a local MP’s home as the case threatens to ruin the politician’s reputation. With the prospects of leading his political party, Edward Curtis can ill-afford the scandal as his wife Grace begins to hallucinate and act bizarrely and very much out of character as she believes their family home to be haunted. There’s a possibility Grace may be committed to an asylum in scandalous circumstances if Harry doesn’t take on the investigation. Ghosts from Harry’s past influence his decision to take the case and he begins to think it might be time to take a new path. Together with the Curtis family maid, Sarah Grey, whose own mother has fallen prey to con artist mediums in the past, their detection and investigative skills complement one another and they make a formidable partnership. Smart, driven and open-minded, Sarah is a strong-minded woman who can handle herself when unravelling the mysteries behind the hauntings, which are seriously affecting Grace’s health and well-being. Harry also calls on the services of his old friend, Albert, during the investigation. An African pharmacist with a sideline in voodoo con-artistry, Albert has a keen interest in medical and scientific discoveries, which Harry exploits to the maximum. Journalist Vernon Wall also finds himself in Harry’s orbit. Cynical and hard-bitten, although clever at winning the trust of the people he’s interviewing, Vernon is keen to learn about Harry’s techniques and sensing a political scandal sets out to inveigle his way into his life by extracting information from Sarah.
约翰(克里斯托弗·乔纳 Kristoffer Joner 饰)是一个看似木讷老实的小职员,女友英格丽(安娜·巴赫-维格 Anna Bache-Wiig 饰)的决然离开令他倍受打击。虽然约翰无数次希望重新来过,但是他们的爱情已无力回天。沮丧落寞之际,他结识了住在隔壁的邻居安娜(塞西蕾·A·莫斯利 Cecilie A. Mosli 饰)和金(朱莉娅·舒华特 Julia Schacht 饰)。安娜端庄雍容,金妖冶性感,虽仅有一墙之隔,但是她们似乎知晓约翰和英格丽之间的一切。约翰虽然感到阵阵不安,但却不知不觉为这两个女孩所吸引,他也由此坠入一个深不见底的黑色漩涡…… 本片荣获2005年挪威阿曼达奖最佳男主角奖(Kristoffer Joner)。