简介：迈克尔（斯蒂芬·罗伯特森 Steven Robertson 饰）在很小的时候就因为患上了小儿麻痹症而全身瘫痪，生活不能自己的他居住在专门收容残障人士的康复中心里，虽然生活起居都有人照顾，但没有人能够理解迈克尔抽象的语言，迈克尔一直生活在孤独之中。 一天，一位名叫罗伊（詹姆斯·麦卡沃伊 James McAvoy 饰）的病友走进了迈克尔的生活，罗伊同样也是全身瘫痪，仅有右手可以活动。然而，和其他的病人不同，罗伊思维敏捷，开朗乐观，更神奇的是，他似乎可以理解迈克尔想要表达的语言。罗伊的出现给迈克尔灰暗的生活带来了一丝色彩，让他重新对人生产生了希望。
简介：A comic celebration of dreamers and their dreams, LIVING IN OBLIVION is the second film written and directed by Tom DiCillo. With a tone that teeters somewhere between Kafka and the Marx Brothers, it chronicles the hilarious misadventures of a group of people who have joined together to accomplish one of the most difficult goals imaginable - the making of a low-budget independent film. With an innovative and surprising structure that shifts fluidly between the movie being made and those making it, the film offers a rare and accurate -- if comically heightened -- look behind-the-scenes, with the people who make the scenes. How they make them -- and the fact that they manage to make them at all -- is what LIVING IN OBLIVION is all about. Starring Steve Buscemi as director Nick Reve, LIVING IN OBLIVION highlights a day on the set of Nick's film where everything that could possibly go wrong, actually does. Struggling against ever-escalating odds to maintain his integrity and his sanity, Nick is both helped and hindered by his bumbling, if well-intentioned crew, headed by his cinematographer Wolf (Dermot Mulroney), a cameraman whose leather gear suggests that he is more inspired by Billy Idol than Sven Nykvist; a leading lady, Nicole (Catherine Keener), a talented but neurotic actress who is involved in a romance and a rivalry with her leading man, Chad Palomino (James Le Gros); an iron-willed assistant director, Wanda (Danielle Von Zerneck); and, for the first time ever on-screen, a Gaffer.