迈阿密牙医奥斯(马修•派瑞 Matthew Perry 饰)的生活并不愉快,这一切都是因为他的妻子苏菲(罗姗娜•阿奎特 Rosanna Arquette 饰)。菲比为人泼辣,十分霸道,令到奥斯整天只能忍气吞声。这天,奥斯家来了新的邻居——吉米(布鲁斯•威利斯 Bruce Willis 饰)。这个吉米不简单,他曾是芝加哥的一个黑帮杀手,因为背叛了黑帮老大查理才来此暂避风头。查理已经发出悬赏令通缉吉米。
苏菲为了赏金逼奥斯到芝加哥去告密,本来不愿去的奥斯不得已只能只身前往芝加哥。奥斯也打好了自己的如意算盘,拿到了赏金后就将苏菲甩掉。另一方面,苏菲也有自己的小九九,等奥斯拿到赏金后就雇人将他干掉。岂料意外接踵而至,吉米的老婆辛西娅(娜塔莎•亨斯屈奇 Natasha Henstridge 饰)被查理绑架了,场面变得混乱起来……
A young criminal defense attorney struggles with a homicide case that is not as cut and dry as it appears while battling a drinking habit. The story goes beyond the
lives of those directly related to the case and shines a much needed spotlight on the horrific world of human trafficking in the United States.
励精图治的马来西亚新总理上台,令滥用童工的各大美国服装集团颇感压力,这班时装界巨头谋划选出最无知愚蠢的男模刺杀马来西亚总理……戴瑞克•祖兰德(本•斯蒂勒 Ben Stiller 饰)是蝉联三届最佳男模的超级模特,但是在最近的模特盛典上,祖兰德的第四次荣誉被新人汉瑟尔(欧文•威尔逊 Owen Wilson 饰)夺走,失落的祖兰德又遭遇了三位死党意外身亡,连续打击之下,祖兰德返回矿区的家乡,但这里的一切已经不再适合养尊处优的超级名模。时装界的超级设计师穆格图(威尔•法瑞尔 Will Ferrell 饰)此时向祖兰德抛出了橄榄枝,邀请后者与自己合作最新设计。《时代》杂志记者雯达(克里斯蒂娜•泰勒 Christine Taylor 饰)追查之下发现穆格图的真实意图是将祖兰德改造成行刺马来西亚总理的杀手……
奎萨(路易·德·菲耐斯 Louis de Funès 饰)带着自己的女儿妮可(吉内薇芙·格拉德 Geneviève Grad 饰)来到了一个新的城市工作生活,为了不被新结识的朋友们嘲笑,妮可谎称自己的父亲是一名百万富翁,并且拥有一艘豪华游艇。朋友们起哄让妮可带他们到游艇上玩,为了谎言不被揭穿,妮可只得接着欺骗游艇管理员。
游艇真正的主人是当地的黑社会老大,他刚刚非法得到了一副价值连城的油画,将它藏在自己的爱车中。哪知道妮可的朋友们误将那辆车认为是妮可父亲的,于是偷偷的开出来兜风,最终他们的一连串骗局都被奎萨给撞穿了。在将车物归原主的时候,奎萨误打误撞的带走了那幅画,哪知道竟然被误认为是偷画贼。
Volker Schlöndorff transposes Bertolt Brecht’s late-expressionist work to latter-day 1969. Poet and anarchist Baal lives in an attic and reads his poems to cab drivers. At first feted and later rejected by bourgeois society, Baal roams through forests and along motorways, greedy for schnapps, cigarettes, women and men: ‘You have to let out the beast, let him out into the sunlight.’ After impregnating a young actress he soon comes to regard her as a millstone round his neck. He stabs a friend to death and dies alone. ‘You are useless, mangy and wild, you beast, you crawl through the lowest boughs of the tree.’
The film takes youthful impetuousness and hatred of oppression as its subject and also ponders the cult of genius and sexual morals. Rainer Werner Fassbinder simultaneously plays both Baal and himself and is surrounded by many actors who were later to perform in his own films. After the film was broadcast on West German television, Brecht’s widow Helene Weigel prohibited any further screenings, arguing that the social circumstances engendering Baal’s rebelliousness had not been adequately explained.
In the aftermath of a violent assault, a couple decides to leave everything and start over in another country, but their past won’t let them go. Masculinity, sex and violence pervade in this modern psychological thriller.