简介:Sam (Matthew Broderick) is the reasonable man in a crazy urban world, the man of thoughtfulness and refined taste in a landscape of Leroy Neiman paintings and beer commercials. The guy would sooner cook for an hour over a hot stove than say `supersize it.' By day he's a store clerk in an upscale gourmet eatery, and these scenes raise a smile, especially for anyone who's visited the actual chain in New York City -- the portrayal isn't far off from the reality. Our man is besieged by hoards of customers who want their imported French cheese cut to impossibly exact standards. His efforts to remain outwardly polite (while you know he'd like to take the cleaver to the relentless clientele) are pretty funny, and will warm the hearts of clerks everywhere. In general, Broderick is in good form and provides the movie with most of whatever lightness it possesses. Sciorra's lovelorn dental hygienist, Ellen, is fine enough, too, and her unknowing interaction with our cheese-slicing hero shows some hopeful chemistry, and you may begin to feel you want to see these two get together. One of the main competitors for our lady's affections, a stockbroker (Kevin Anderson), is played as caricature he's the beer swilling frat-boy whose idea of after-sex sensitivity is flipping on the football game. He's kind of funny at times, but the movie might be stronger if he was written or acted for us to like him more, instead of having us merely recognize him as the flat-out `wrong' guy in comparison to Broderick's sensitive man. Think of John Candy in Splash, taking a cigarette and beer can to the racquetball game; we know his lifestyle is not the one our hero should emulate, but we can't help but be charmed by the likeable goon. Whereas this character is merely a goon, and pretty unlikable all around. While it's a nice enough light movie for the first half, for me the story was somewhat derailed by its unbelievable (Hollywood) presentation of sex and adultery. (SPOILER AHEAD, skip to next paragraph.) When Ellen returns home after an evening's misadventures, she is naturally faced with the questioning husband (Michael Mantell). Quickly admitting her own indiscretion, she then immediately turns the situation around, demanding to know why the guy had gone ahead and bought a house without discussing it. Granted, it's a valid issue, and granted, many people use this countering maneuver in arguments. What's unbelievable is what happens next the guy starts responding to her question, addressing the house-issue in a quiet, thoughtful manner. WHOA. You'd be hard pressed to find a married person in the world who, when faced with hisher partner's totally unexpected adultery, would be ready to address anything so calmly. The guy would surely be bouncing off the walls, or else crushed into silence and tears - but see, then we might actually feel for the poor schnook, and we'd see Sciorra's character in a poor light. And since that particular audience reaction doesn't serve the romantic comedy, the story tries to sneak around it. You may start to feel that, like the husband, you're being taken. Further dissatisfaction is just around the corner in the ending. We realize this is where misunderstandings will get sorted out, and our couple will finally see a clear path to one another. We want the satisfaction of rooting for them. But it's marred by another unbelievable character reaction, followed by an abrupt conclusion that feels rushed and forced, too easy and unearned. You may feel as though the movie's cheating on you again...
简介:In sepia tones, the film moves back and forth among three periods in Robert Tucker's life he's an old man, near death, in a nursing home at Christmas time; he's in middle age caring for his cheerful but dying mother; he's a lad at Catholic school, practicing his catechism, going to confession for the first time, receiving the Eucharist, surrounded by the singing of a children's choir. In middle age, he looks through his scrapbook of photographs of muscular men; he recalls lovers and his mother's cremation. A nurse sits beside him on his last night; in his last breath, he reaches forward and back..
简介:费舍尔(Robert Norman 饰)出生于一个非常传统的苏格兰家庭之中,家风十分严谨,这令费舍尔的整个童年都是在压抑之中度过的。幸运的是,费舍尔的父亲爱德华(科林·费尔斯 Colin Firth 饰)俏皮不羁,母亲玛利亚温婉善良(玛丽·伊丽莎白·马斯特兰托尼奥 Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio 饰),他们两人的存在是费舍尔灰暗童年里的唯一一抹亮色。 这一天,村里来了一位名叫席璐思(伊莲娜·雅各布 Irène Jacob 饰)的女子,个性奔放的席璐思很快就吸引了费舍尔的注意,与此同时,父子连心,敏锐的费舍尔很快就意识到,自己的父亲亦对席璐思非常的感兴趣。父子两人竟然对同一个女人产生了感情,故事开始变得有趣起来。
主演:米娅·法罗,约翰·卡萨维蒂,鲁思·戈登,西德尼·布莱克默,莫里斯·埃文斯,拉尔夫·贝拉米,维多利亚·沃特瑞,帕茜·凯莉,小伊莱莎·库克,埃马利娜·亨利,查尔斯·格罗丁,Hanna Landy,菲尔·利兹,迪维尔·马丁,霍普·萨默斯,Marianne Gordon,温德·瓦格纳,拉特安亚·阿尔达,比尔·鲍德温,沃尔特·鲍德温,罗伊·巴克罗夫特,Gail Bonney,Carol Brewster,威廉·卡斯尔,Gordon Connell,Roger Creed,简·克劳利,托尼·柯蒂斯,Charles D
简介:凯(约翰·卡萨维兹 John Cassavetes 饰)有着一个外表单薄脆弱的妻子罗斯玛丽(米亚·法罗 Mia Farrow 饰),自从他们搬到新公寓后,凯就和邻居一对老夫妇相谈甚欢。而罗斯玛丽却并不特别喜欢这对邻居,令她感到不适的,还有接下来的一连串怪事。 罗斯玛丽看 到了自杀的女人,在日渐诡异的生活气氛下,她还做着毛骨悚然的梦。梦中,有一个长毛怪物侵犯自己,罗斯玛丽从噩梦中醒来不久,竟得知自己已有身孕的消息。邻居老太前来照顾罗斯玛丽和腹中婴儿,然而,罗斯玛丽却渐渐怀疑,一切的古怪事情,都来自于这个表面和善慈祥的邻居,甚至还有自己的丈夫!他们正在合谋计算罗斯玛丽的婴孩。到底是罗斯玛丽的幻觉还是确有其事?当她看到出生的婴儿眼中竟无瞳孔时,罗斯玛丽知道,魔鬼的气息近在眼前。