简介:Bizarre film from 1960In this surprisingly watchable chiller from 1960, a hypnotist Desmond (Bergerac) gets his entertainment by having beautiful young women disfigure themselves in pretty graphic ways—setting their hair on fire, washing faces with acid, drinking lye, putting their faces in fans—well, you get the idea. With all of this going on, the local police send a detective and a police psychologist out to solve the cases.This movie features undoubtedly the dumbest duo of police officers ever, detective Steve Kennedy and Dr. Philip Hecht. These two guys are such idiots that their incompetence is fascinating to watch. At first, they can’t decide whether all of these disfigurement cases are related (duh!) and spend the rest of the movie trying—sort of—to catch the perpetrator.The many unintentionally funny scenes include Steve’s girlfriend (Henderson) being kissed and groped by Desmond (while Steve blankly watches from a distance), the first hypnosis scene (“You are the meanest of all the dogs!!”), the beatnik bar scene, and the final scene at a theater, where the “secret” is revealed, but only after the audience is mesmerized into doing pretty outrageous things—like bad acting.Released during the hypnosis and beatnik crazes of the early 1960s, this bizarre movie is an interesting time capsule and stars cult actress Allison Hayes. Be sure and catch Hecht’s (Guy Prescott) jaw-dropping closing line…it’s guaranteed to leave you speechless.
简介:Baseball player Micah Matthias and his young son Bobby are fleeing a brutal media following the traumatic and unsolved murder of their wife and mother. They end up in the quaint Amish community of Sugarcreek, Ohio under a set of aliases and with a broken-down old truck. Three Amish sisters running an old farmhouse inn take them under their wings and employ Micah as a handyman. This sparks the suspicions of a Sugarcreek policewoman named Rachel Troyler, niece of the three who raised her after she was orphaned as a child. Will the truth interfere with love
简介:Suspended between carefree youth and the harsh realities of the adult world, a teenage girl experiences an unsettling awakening in this haunting vision of innocence lost. Based on the celebrated short story “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been” by Joyce Carol Oates, the narrative debut from Joyce Chopra features a revelatory breakout performance by Laura Dern as Connie, the fifteen-year-old black sheep of her family whose summertime idyll of beach trips, mall hangouts, and innocent flirtations is shattered by an encounter with a mysterious stranger (a memorably menacing Treat Williams). Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, Smooth Talk captures the thrill and terror of adolescent sexual exploration as it transforms the conventions of a coming-of-age story into something altogether more troubling and profound.
简介:奎诺(Quino)是一位墨西哥潜水员,在海底发现了一颗珍珠。他和他的妻子胡安娜(Juana)及其儿子刚刚拥有了一颗价值数千的珍珠。每天人们都在尝试赚钱,甚至珍珠交易商也试图将其剥夺。奎诺(Quino)有一天受到攻击时,他是为了自卫而杀死攻击者。他的兄弟建议他们唯一的希望是离开村庄。但是,在给儿子提供从未有过的教育的过程中,有人可能会采取任何措施来阻止这种情况。Quino is a Mexican diver who discovers a pearl at the bottom of the sea. He and his wife Juana, and their son have just taken possession of a pearl that is worth thousands. Everyday people try to get in on the cash, even Pearl Dealers try to rip them off. When Quino is attacked one day, he kills his attackers in self defence. His brother suggests their only hope is to leave the village. But on their journey to give their son an education they never had, someone may just do anything to prevent it.
简介:In the aftermath of a conspiracy-minded father’s sudden death, his daughter inherits his patent for an experimental healing device. Featuring archives from Callie Hernandez's late father, Invention explores the process of grieving a complicated parent, and the filmmaking itself becomes a part of the process.
简介:Natty Gann (played by Meredith Salenger) is a twelve year old Depression era girl whose single-parent father leaves her behind in Chicago while he goes to Washington State to look for work in the timber industry. Natty runs away from the guardian she was left with to follow Dad. She befriends and is befriended by a wolf that has been abused in dog fights, hops a freight train west, and is presumed dead when her wallet is found after the train crashes. Dad gets bitter and endangers himself in his new job. Meanwhile Natty has a series of adventures and mis- adventures in various farmhouses, police stations, hobo camps, reform schools, and boxcars.
简介:越战期间,美国克莱顿镇5个经常一起打猎野鹿的好朋友中的三人尼克(克里斯托弗•沃肯 Christopher Walken 饰)、史蒂芬(约翰•萨维奇 John Savage 饰)和迈克尔(罗伯特•德尼罗 Robert De Niro 饰)即将奔赴前线。离开前夕,史蒂芬和另一个好友兼女友安吉拉结了婚,婚礼就是他们的告别会。三个年轻人在战场上被越军俘虏了,残忍的越军逼他们玩“俄罗斯轮盘”游戏,迈克尔乘机夺了越军士兵的枪。虽然顺利三个好友逃了出来,但在逃亡过程中他们失散了。迈克尔和史蒂芬最终顺利回到了美国,但史蒂芬终身残废了,住在疗养院不愿回家拖累家人。越战结束前夕,迈克尔从史蒂芬处得知他经常受到从西贡寄来的匿名的汇款,迈克尔断定一定是尼克。为了找回好兄弟,迈克尔决定再次冒险闯荡越南。
简介:斯坦顿(布莱德利·库珀 Bradley Cooper 饰)是一个穷困潦倒的男人,误打误撞之中来到了流动马戏团,在这里,他凭借着自己的聪明才智为自己某得了一份差事——为塔罗牌占卜师赞娜(托妮·科莱特 Toni Collette 饰)和她的情人皮特(大卫·斯特雷泽恩 David Strathairn 饰)工作。从这两个人身上,斯坦顿学会了如何依靠巧舌如簧和敏锐观察来施展观众们眼中的“魔法”。与此同时,斯坦顿还在马戏团里邂逅了名为茉莉(鲁妮·玛拉 Rooney Mara 饰)的女孩,随着时间的推移,斯坦顿和茉莉之间产生了感情。最终,斯坦顿带着茉莉离开了马戏团,他们坚信他们能够靠自己的双手打开一片属于他们的天地。一晃眼多年过去,虽然斯坦顿在占卜圈已经小有名气,但他并不满足,渴望更多的金钱。此时,一个名叫莉莉丝(凯特·布兰切特 Cate Blanchett 饰)的女人出现在了他面前。