The search for planets beyond our solar system has brought an historic discovery: a planet slightly larger than Earth orbiting a star called Proxima Centauri. At just over 40 trillion kilometers from the Sun, Proxima Centauri is our closest stellar neighbor. Does its planet have a climate, or even life? What will it take to get a closer look, to launch our first interstellar journey to the Pale Red Dot?
The "Jack Squad” is the urban tale of three women who have nothing but money on their minds after each one has a loss of financial in***e. Childhood best friends Kennedy, Mona, and Dawn embark on a plan to seduce and rob wealthy men. Using cunning acts of seduction and betrayal, the girls go full speed ahead with charm and sex as their weapons to be***e financially independent. Soon, however, everything backfires when they get involved with a vicious Under-Lord and a murder counters their actions. The women be***e enveloped in a world of deceit and murder, as they discover that what ***es around goes around. It is now up to them to figure out what the next step is and how to get out of this vicious cycle of death before it is too late.
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。