简介:爱达荷州普林斯顿高中生拿破仑(乔恩•海德 Jon Heder 饰)是个衰蛋,带着厚厚的眼镜,不酷不帅,还总是搞怪。他和奶奶以及失业的哥哥凯普相依为命。他在学校不受同学待见,还经常被老师修理。他不合群,只能孤独地跟风车球使劲儿。后来,他结识了同学佩德罗(艾弗连•莱米雷斯 Efren Ramirez 饰),两人成了朋友。在佩德罗参加学生会主席竞选时,拿破仑贡献了自己的力量。一次,拿破仑在家扮沙发土豆时,有女孩黛比(蒂娜•米乔里诺 Tina Majorino 饰)上门推销。他于是对这个女孩产生了好感,但是没有勇气追求,只能想出一些拙劣的鬼点子,结果总是不欢而散。凯普看电视购物,被防身术教练深深吸引了,拉着拿破仑两人参加了俱乐部,没想到大失所望……
简介:In 1900, Naomi Murdoch deserted her small-town family to go on the stage. Some ten years later, daughter Lily invites Naomi back to see her in the Riverdale high school play. Her arrival sets the whole town abuzz, wakes up old conflicts, and sets off new emotional storms.
简介:Salomé (1923), a silent film directed by Charles Bryant and starring Alla Nazimova, is a film adaptation of the Oscar Wilde play of the same name. The play itself is a loose retelling of the biblical story of King Herod and his execution of John the Baptist (here, as in Wilde's play, called Jokaanan) at the request of his stepdaughter, Salomé, whom he lusts after.Salomé is often called one of the first art films to be made in the U.S.[citation needed] The highly stylized costumes, exaggerated acting (even for the period), minimal sets, and absence of all but the most necessary props make for a screen image much more focused on atmosphere and on conveying a sense of the characters' individual heightened desires than on conventional plot development.Despite the film being only a little over an hour in length and having no real action to speak of, it cost over $350,000 to make. All the sets were constructed indoors to be able to have complete control over the lighting. The film was shot completely in black and white, matching the illustrations done by Aubrey Beardsley in the printed edition of Wilde's play. The costumes, designed by Natacha Rambova, used material only from Maison Lewis of Paris, such as the real silver lamé loincloths worn by the guards.No major studio would be associated with the film, and it was years after its completion before it was released, by a minor independent distributor. It was a complete failure at the time and marked the end of Nazimova's producing career.A longstanding rumor, which seems to have started while the film was still in production, suggests that its cast is comprised entirely of gay and bisexual actors in an homage to Oscar Wilde, as per star and producer Nazimova's demand. It is, of course, impossible to say, but one of the extras in Salomé reported that a number of the cast members—both featured and extras—were indeed gay, but not an unusual percentage of them, and certainly not all of them. What can be said is that Nazimova herself was a lesbian, the two guard characters (who, next to Salomé, have the most screen time) are at least played very stereotypically gay, and several of the female courtiers are men in drag.Salomé was screened in 1989 at the New York International Festival of Lesbian and Gay films and in 1990 at the New York Gay Experimental Film Festival.In 2000, the United States Library of Congress deemed the film culturally significant and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry.
简介:R.D. Womack II's patiently paced thriller has been hailed, as thrilling as it is beautiful - Brian Corsetti, HollyScoop. Follow Lester; a privileged underachiever who awakes to find himself kidnapped and stranded in a snowbound cabin. Along with Viviana, another captive, the two must survive the brutal onslaught of winter and outsmart their kidnapper; a sniper calling himself Wolf. With a blizzard bearing down on them the pair embarks on a deadly game of survival. Will the pair find a way through the winter storm to freedom, or will the mountain become their icy grave
简介:When his long suffering girlfriend disappears suddenly, leaving a cryptic note as her only explanation, Hank's comfortable life and his sanity begin to crack. Then, from the woods surrounding his house, something terrible starts trying to break in.
简介:自从和妻子离婚后,约翰(约翰·C·赖利 John C. Reilly 饰)一直单身一人,而前妻即将结婚的消息犹如一把利刃,再一次的插进了约翰的心里,愤愤不平的他忍不住的参加了前妻的结婚派对。没想到,在派对上,约翰认识了美丽温柔的莫利(玛丽莎·托梅 Marisa Tomei 饰),两人相互吸引很快便坠入了爱河。好景不长,一个名叫塞勒斯(乔纳·希尔 Jonah Hill 饰)的男子的出现为约翰和莫利的感情蒙上了一层阴影。原来,塞勒斯是莫利的儿子,而对于这个21岁的小伙子来说,约翰这一凭空出现的男人显然是不受欢迎的。夹在莫利和塞勒斯之间,约翰左右为难,他能够成功获得塞勒斯的认可吗?他和莫利之间的感情又该何去何从呢?
简介:In this family saga, Mrs. Parkington recounts the story of her life, beginning as a hotel maid in frontier Nevada where she is swept off her feet by mine owner and financier Augustus Parkington. He moves them to New York, tries to remake her into a society woman, and establishes their home among the wealthiest of New York's high society. Family and social life is not always peaceful, however, and she guides us, in flashbacks, through the rises and falls of the Parkington family fortunes.
简介:A tale of love and violence when a man on his emotional last legs finds a savior seductively dancing in a run-down strip club. And a life most certainly headed off a cliff suddenly becomes redirected - as EVERYTHING is now worth dying for.
简介:The boisterous, arrogant professor Challenger, a reputed biologist and anthropologist, dares the London Zoological Society to mount an expedition to verify his spectacular claim, without physical proof, that his previous expedition to the Amazonian basin found live dinosaurs. Apart from him and his 'socialite' counterpart, professor Summerlee, it consists of experienced discoverer Lord Roxbury, the young reporter Ed Malone -who got publicly struck down with Challenger's umbrella at his arrival- and Jennifer Holmes, Malone's news agency's boss's daughter, essentially as conditions for putting up the money. In Brazil they are joined by Jennifer's brother David and local 'guide' Manuel Gomez. They soon discover the dinosaurs are real and dangerous, like giant spiders, but loose their helicopter and thus are desperate for a way down from the isolated plateau. They learn Roxbury knew about the fate of Burton White, an explorer whose diary they find, thus presume to be dead, in search of diamonds, and confirmation of the local tribe being the lethal guardians of the plateau's secrets, but also get surprising help...
简介:亨利(考特尼·万斯 Courtney B. Vance 饰)是小镇上受人敬仰的牧师,他的妻子茱莉亚(惠特尼·休斯顿 Whitney Houston 饰)则是教会唱诗班的主唱,这对璧人在旁人眼中是一对天衣无缝的伉俪,可是实际上,他们要面临的问题远比一般人所设想的多得多。作为一名牧师,亨利要做的事情并非只有传教那么简单,他还要负责处理教会中发生了许多棘手的意外,这令亨利感到疲惫不堪,与此同时,对于家庭的疏忽让他和茱莉亚之间的感情也亮起了红灯。某日,走投无路的亨利向上帝祈祷,希望主能够帮他度过难关,谁知道上帝真的实现了他的愿望,派来一位名叫杜德利(丹泽尔·华盛顿 Denzel Washington 饰)的天使来到了亨利的身边。
简介:Danny, a respected cop, is setup after an investigation goes wrong. While laying low in his new jail cell, Danny is forced to get involved in the inmates underground cage fighting circuit. With the help of Irving, a former mixed martial arts champion, Danny devises a scheme to bring justice and innocence to his family's name, if he can get out of the cage alive.
简介:多比斯(罗宾·威廉斯 Robin Williams)主持的脱口秀节目非常犀利,能旁征博引言辞刺骨地把美国总统们讽刺一番,把听众乐得心花怒放。甚至有听众建议他不如参选总统,一展身手。多比斯的参选让他成为了草根阶层的代表,自然也获得了民众的大量支持。而且,多比斯拥有的杰出口才更是在辩论赛中占尽优势,令他在众多候选人中显得卓越不凡。大选结果让多比斯大为振奋——无背景无资历的他竟然以超过半数德票选获得总统之位。选举期间,统计票数的程序员埃莉诺(劳拉·琳妮 Laura Linney)让多比斯暗暗动心。正是这个姑娘,在关键时刻发现统计系统出错,选举结果其实源于一个BUG……