故事发生在一间名为“鸟笼”的夜总会中,艾伯特(内森·连恩 Nathan Lane 饰)是其中的当家花旦,不仅如此,他和夜总会的老板阿曼德(罗宾·威廉姆斯 Robin Williams 饰)还是出双入对的同性情人。 某日,阿曼德同前妻所生的儿子瓦尔(丹·福特曼 Dan Futterman 饰)找到了老爸,喜滋滋的告诉他他即将带着未婚妻芭芭拉(卡莉斯塔·弗洛克哈特 Calista Flockhart 饰)前来造访。阿曼德在感到欣喜的同时亦十分紧张,因为芭芭拉的父母凯文(吉恩·哈克曼 Gene Hackman 饰)和路易斯(黛安娜·维斯特 Dianne Wiest 饰)是保守派人士,如果让他们知道了自己同艾伯特之间的关系,儿子的婚事可能就要岌岌可危了。于是,阿曼德开始劝说艾伯特,让他假扮成为一个正常人,表面上答应了阿曼德的请求,艾伯特的内心里却十分郁闷。
这是一档介绍住在中国的外国人拍摄住在全世界的中国人和住在日本的中国人的旅行式纪录片。由主持人阿部力或者导演竹内亮,带着观众们去拜访住在各地的主人公,了解他们的生活,找寻他们选择住在这里的理由。
1978年,死亡峡谷。警官戴维•麦克阿里斯特(David Stanbra 饰)将杀人如麻、残酷血腥的雾人(Ben Gunther 饰)绳之于法,这个作恶多端的噩梦最终死在毒气室里。 时间回到现在,警长麦克阿里斯特(Robert Pine 饰)即将退休,他的儿子哈里斯(Michael Muhney 饰)则尾随父亲当上了警察。父子二人在六角餐馆用餐时,遭遇了在逃的赌场抢劫犯。双方展开对峙,年轻气盛的哈里斯引起大爆炸,两名劫匪劫持餐馆女招待玛雅(Mircea Monroe 饰)逃亡。在救援部队迟迟未到之时,戴维带着儿子展开谨慎的追踪。不过令双方始料未及的是,似乎有另一个神秘、恐怖的杀手将他们玩弄于鼓掌之中。邪恶的雾人精神不死,重返人间……
Without warning, millions of mysterious alien "doors" suddenly appear around the globe. In a rush to determine the reason for their arrival, mankind must work together to understand the purpose of these cosmic anomalies. Bizarre incidences occurring around the sentient doors leads humanity to question their own existence and an altered reality as they attempt to enter them.
Lucjan is a theatre actor whose health is failing. He forgets his lines on stage and feels confused and out of place in his daily life. He decides to end his acting career and soon winds up in a nursing home. In this new place, the elderly man misses his late wife. He starts having nightmares that seem to become real. In one of them, he discovers a passage into a magical world deceptively similar to his theatre. Lucjan starts living in two parallel dimensions – real life and the fairy tale – that become increasingly dependent on each other and intertwined. His immersion in the imaginary world leads to an unexpected ending. A bittersweet treatise on passing. The fairy-tale world Lucjan creates is not so much a metaphor for death as a symbolic reconciliation to its coming.
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.
Sophie is a twenty-year-old American woman who has lived all her solitary life in a bubble. During a vacation in Palermo with her sister, she meets Giulio and his group of Sicilian friends. Anxious to let go and live life to the hilt, Sophie decides to walk along the edge of disaster and gets sucked into a vortex of risky behavior that turns a mere romp on the wild side into a heart-pumping fight for survival – and redemption.