电影筛选Brooke (Bonnie Dennison) is devastated that she's pulled out of her high school so her family can move to a new town. Even worse, her stepmother is pregnant with a new addition to her dysfunctional family. All seems lost until she becomes smitten with a charming guy (Michael Welch). He's gorgeous, sweet, thrilling, everything her life isn't...until he reveals a menacing dark side.
After a string of crushing personal and professional humiliations, Jack Lee accepts that at age 39 he is a failure. Worst of all, he's let down his selfless immigrant parents. To get back on track, Jack reaches out to others: an almost famous guru, a respected arts administrator, and two fellow computer programmers, all of whom have problems of their own.
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.
1953年的纽约，杀虫人比尔（Peter Weller 饰）进行着孤独的个人写作，只有两个好友知晓他的文学尝试。比尔的妻子琼（Judy Davis 饰）沉迷于注射杀虫粉，比尔为她拜访了戒毒医生班威，不久被麻醉品管理处传讯，在那里他遇到了能说话的虫子，它指出比尔的真实身份是一名间谍，比尔惊慌失措的逃回家，开枪误杀妻子，只得按照怪异生物的指点远赴中东的“区间”避难。当地的黑肉场场主、美国作家和他酷似琼的妻子、同性恋商人、以及集市上的女人看起来无不是一桩阴谋的一部分，比尔在自己那台会说话的打字机“克拉克诺瓦”的帮助下进行创作，并不断接近阴谋的真相，在又一次失去了琼以后，比尔发现了区间同班威医生的联系。 本片获1993年伦敦电影节年度女演员奖，1992年加拿大吉尼奖最佳导演、最佳摄影等多项褒奖。根据威廉·罗伯斯同名小说改编。
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