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.
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.
这部电影根据真实故事改编,讲述了摩根和罗德尼·梅泽尔的故事,他们是青梅竹马,摩根 21 岁时结婚。这对夫妇的第一个孩子出生后不久就去世了,但一年后他们有了双胞胎,他们欣喜若狂。当罗德尼失业并负债累累时,他们之间的关系开始紧张起来。罗德尼把他们的争吵归咎于摩根的酗酒——即使她只喝过一次酒——并说服摩根,是她在昏厥愤怒中把他推下楼梯的。这对夫妇最终分居,摩根的生活开始好转,直到罗德尼被诊断出患有癌症。不久之后,一个蒙面入侵者闯入摩根家并袭击了她。入侵者离开几分钟后罗德尼就出现了;当当局询问他时,罗德尼的故事似乎说不通。罗德尼真的得了癌症吗?他是他自称的英雄吗?还是他几十年来一直在欺骗摩根?
雷娜的丈夫今天又赌博了。他坚持要带酒。她似乎厌倦了,给他倒了一杯饮料,然后接到了她丈夫的电话。这是我丈夫的弟弟(他正是我同父异母的弟弟)打来的电话,询问我是否可以留在家里去东京出差。终于见到弟弟的那一天,她趁着丈夫睡着的时候偷偷靠近他,向弟弟展示自己的容貌……
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.
十三岁的女孩琳(朱迪·福斯特 Jodie Foster 饰)独自居住在靠海的一座小屋里,她的父亲已去世,母亲离家出走。疼爱他的父亲帮她预付了三年的房租,直到她能够自谋生活,她需要做的就是守住父亲已逝的秘密以保住居住权。但这对于一个小女孩来说一点也不易,为了躲避闲人猜疑,她始终独来独往,学着天衣无缝地处理大小事务。与世无争的她还要面对常来找茬的女房东和其儿子的骚扰,偶尔警察登门,琳则需要编造一系列的借口掩饰父亲的缺席。一次意外让琳结识了一个跛脚男孩马里奥(斯科特·雅各比 Scott Jacoby 饰),琳开始时对他提防着,但经过大大小小的考验,他们渐渐开始信任对方,琳终于告诉了他关于自己和这座房子的秘密,也开始觉得自己越来越离不开他。然而好景不长,马里奥因染上肺炎病危住院,前所未有的孤独感向琳袭来,同时威胁也在逼近:房东儿子竟发现了房子的秘密,以此要挟,无助的琳将如何面对这一切呢? 本片改编自Laird Koenig在1974年的同名小说,电影获得1977年土星奖。