简介:大萧条时期,每个人都要守住一个梦想,以此来度过最黑暗的时光,生活失意的汽车制造商查尔斯•霍华德(杰夫•布里吉斯 Jeff Bridges 饰)也不例外。他买了一匹小个子赛马,名为“海饼干”,并笼络了一批同样有梦想的人,意图进入赛马圈。第一个发现海饼干天赋的是训练师 汤姆•史密斯(克里斯•库珀 Chris Cooper 饰),他认为这匹马虽然个头矮小,腿脚也不太灵光,天性中却藏着十足的执拗和倔强,这有可能使其成为赛马圈的王者。他们找来前拳击冠军瑞德•波拉德(托比•马奎尔 Tobey Maguire饰)作为海饼干的骑师,三个人一匹马在共同的征程中重新找到了生活的方向。
简介:Tyler Bennett(Anthony E. Williams 饰)是一个经验丰富的社会工作者。他的职业生涯一直是在用自己的理论知识和个人情感来帮助别人。直到有一天因为一些事改变了,他现在即使到了夜晚也不能像以前那样安然入睡。在他现在的生活中,他探求着生活的意义。他开始不断的去帮助Blaine Hughes(Garland Gunn 饰)——一个15岁的男孩,他试图赢得男孩的信任,最终承诺,他将帮助男孩,让他与他的亲生父母取得联系。
简介:故事开始于2008年,索罗门(岑勇康 Harry Shum Jr. 饰)是一名厨师,在命运的安排之下,他邂逅了名叫珍妮弗(杰西卡·罗德 Jessica Rothe 饰)的女子,情投意合的两人很快就走到了一起。他们之间的恋情受到了双方家人以及朋友们的祝福,在恋爱了数年之后,他们都认定了对方就是自己此生想要携手共渡的那个人,他们决定结婚。索罗门和珍妮弗将婚期定在了2015年的8月,哪知道就在婚期将近的节骨眼上,索罗门被查出患上了肝癌,而且已经发展到晚期了。留给这对恋人的时间已经不多了,可即便如此,珍妮弗依然还是决定要成为索罗门的妻子,两人将婚期提前到了2015年的4月。
简介:Twenty-something New Yorker Barb Schwartz (Sas Goldberg) somehow ended up in a life that kinda... sucks. She has a paralegal job she hates, a drab studio apartment on Roosevelt Island, and an overbearing family who never lets her forget she's still single. When she is reunited with her childhood BFF, ballet dancer Billy (Jake Wilson), she is inspired to turn her life around by revisiting her first love: comedy.
简介:A heartbroken Christmas-tree salesman returns to New York City hoping to put his past behind him. Living in a trailer and working the night shift, he begins to spiral downwards until the saving of a mysterious woman and some colorful customers rescue him from self-destruction.
简介:中国青年程桓(理查德·巴塞尔梅斯 Richard Barthelmess 饰)远赴伦敦,希望能够在异国他乡传授佛教教义。哪知道理想丰满现实残酷,抑郁不得志的程桓不仅荒废了事业,还沾染上了鸦片,整日生活在颓废沮丧之中。一次偶然中,程桓邂逅了名为露丝(丽莲·吉许 Lill ian Gish 饰)的美丽女孩。露丝有着极为凄惨的身世,她的父亲巴汀(唐纳德·克里斯普 Donald Crisp 饰)是一名个性凶残的酒鬼,常在喝得酩酊大醉之后对露丝大打出手。同样悲惨的遭遇让两颗孤独的心越靠越近,终于,不堪忍受父亲折磨的露丝离家出走,程桓收留了她。好景不长,巴汀很快就找到了露丝的踪迹,将她强行带回了家,等待着露丝的,将是又一轮如同狂风暴雨一般的折磨。
简介:第56届柏林电影节的闭幕影片是1973年上映的西部片《比利小子》(Pat Garrett And Billy The Kid)的特别版。《比利小子》讲述的是在1881年的新墨西哥,一个名叫派特·加勒特(Pat Garrett)的人被被委任为警长,追捕自己从前好友比利小子(Billy the Kid)的故事。比利小子是美国历史上的传奇罪犯,真名为威廉·邦尼(William Bonney),他年轻时四处流浪,最擅长的就是拔枪射击,据说他从拔枪到射击只要0.3秒。比利小子曾经谋杀了21个人,最后为派特·加勒特所击杀。本片导演山姆·佩金法是赫赫有名的美国动作电影大师,为暴力美学的开山鼻祖,发明了用慢镜头、圣歌包装血腥射杀场面的技巧,后来香港著名导演吴宇森的电影就充满了对他的模仿。除《比利小子》外,萨姆·派金帕的代表作还有《午后枪声》(Ride The Hi
简介:After awakening in a mental asylum| a patient plans an escape to freedom| but finds an even more disturbing| supernatural world on the outside| one that threatens tokeep him trapped in madness forever.
简介:After false reports of his demise put him and his work on the map, an artist decides to continue the charade by posing as his own brother. Soon, a reporter enters his life and has a profound effect on him.
简介:Abandoned by her fiancé, an educated negro woman with a shocking past dedicates herself to helping a near bankrupt school for impoverished negro youths. Within Our Gates was created in response to The Birth of a Nation which depicted southern whites in need of the Ku Klux Klan to protect them from blood thirsty blacks. Micheaux shows the reality of Dixie racism in 1920, where a black man could be lynched for being in the wrong place at the wrong time.