才华横溢,有一腔理想抱负的热血少年马克斯·费舍尔(詹森·舒瓦兹曼 Jason Schwartzman饰),在休斯敦一间贵族预备学校就读。初入名校的马克斯,却把全部的心思都投注于社团上。凭借着过人的聪明才智,他很快在各种社团里游刃有余。然而过分忽视功课的他,不久就面临着被退学的威胁。因缘际会,他与事业成功的商业大亨赫尔曼·布卢姆(比尔·默瑞 Bill Murray饰)成为了忘年之交,学会了很多人生真理。然而这一切都终结在了才貌双全的女老师露丝玛丽·克罗丝(奥莉维亚·威廉姆斯 Olivia Williams饰)手里。马克斯深陷爱情的世界里,不能自拔。
本片凭借着处处充满针锋相对的机智对白与幽默感,以及新老演员对角色的成功塑造和诠释,荣获1999年第56届金球奖电影类-最佳男配角提名及1999年独立精神奖最佳导演、最佳男配角等多项大奖。
A heroic fantasy about an artist’s destiny at the tumultuous time of social transformations. One of director Alexander Mitta’s best films. The south of Russia, 1920. In a town square, a mono-performance is on, based on Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar”. The film’s hero who took the pseudonym “Revarm”, which stands for “Revolutionary Art for the Masses”, is seriously interested in theatre. The real life and the stage one are intertwined in his destiny. In a provincial town where the power continuously changes hands, going from the Reds to the Whites, from the Whites to a band of the Greens, this youthful stage reformer, endowed with the gift of persuasion, attracts people to his cause, leaving no one indifferent.
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George Peppard plays a hard-driven industrialist more than a little reminiscent of Howard Hughes.
While he builds airplanes, directs movies and breaks hearts, his friends and lovers try to reach his human side, and find that it's an uphill battle.
The film's title is a metaphor for self-promoting tycoons who perform quick financial takeovers, impose dictatorial controls for short-term profits, then move on to greener pastures.
The Carpetbaggers is the kind of trashy classic most people were too embarrassed to admit they enjoyed back in the early 60s.
But this Harold Robbins adaptation is so cheerfully vulgar, it's hard not to have a good time - especially given the thinly veiled portrait of Howard Hughes at its center. George Peppard plays the heel-hero, who founds an airline company in the 1920s and buys a movie studio in the 1930s, crushing friends and mistresses along the way.
The high cheese factor is aided by the good-time cast: Carroll Baker as Peppard's hot stepmom, Bob Cummings (quite funny) as a cynical agent, and Elizabeth Ashley, who married Peppard, in her debut -uncharacteristically, as a good girl.
One sad note is Alan Ladd, looking and sounding very end-of-the-line in his final role, as a man's man cowboy star.
Elmer Bernstein's swaggering score helps goose the action along.
1930年代英格兰,一幢始建于查尔斯二世的废弃城堡,一段飘然消逝的秘密往事。十七岁的少女卡珊多拉·莫特梅恩(萝玛拉·嘉瑞 Romola Garai 饰)随古怪的家人,父亲詹姆斯(比尔·奈伊 Bill Nighy 饰)、继母托帕斯(塔拉·菲茨杰拉德 Tara Fitzgerald 饰)以及妹妹萝丝(萝丝·拜恩 Rose Byrne 饰)一起生活在这座与世隔绝的破旧城堡中。忧郁而美丽的卡珊多拉酷爱写作,而一家人除了作家父亲支持她外,都把她当作怪人看待。古堡主人科顿兄弟尼尔(马克·布鲁卡斯 Marc Blucas 饰)和西蒙(亨利·托马斯 Henry Thomas 饰)来到城堡。不久,萝丝与西蒙坠入爱河,准备结婚。就在不知不觉中,卡珊多拉也爱上了西蒙。然而卡珊多拉不曾想过,尼尔一直在默默地深恋着她。
影片改编自英国家喻户晓的作家道迪·史密斯的同名畅销小说。
肩部受伤令吉姆(丹尼斯·奎德 Dennis Quaid 饰)不得不放弃了自己在棒球事业上的大好前途成为了一名教师。幸福的婚姻生活和平静的教师生涯都没能熄灭吉姆内心里对于棒球的热情和喜爱,可是在现实之中,他只能无奈妥协。学校组建了一只棒球队,吉姆是教练这一职位首当其冲的人选,在和队员的接触与训练之中,吉姆渐渐发现,心中有些热烈的情感正在渐渐复苏。
为了鼓励队员们训练,吉姆和他们打了一个赌,如果球队能够获得全国赛的资格,他就会重回大联盟。没想到,队员们实现了他们的承诺,现在轮到吉姆了。在吉姆面前的,不仅仅是来自家庭的反对和压力,还有自己30岁的“高龄”,重重阻力面前,吉姆能够实现自己的梦想吗?
对于反种族歧视组织而言,艾利沃曼(阿尔•帕西诺 Al Pacino 饰)是一个不可多得的公关大亨。虽然他不修边幅,精神萎靡,但是却能够从容地游走于政客、商贩、明星等社会名流之间。他利用自己的人脉关系,不断地创造者政坛和媒体的新闻。一次偶然的机会,他结识了女明星吉莉(蒂娅•里欧妮 Tea Leoni 饰),在车里,这个平日声色犬马的明星痛哭流涕,只有靠艾利的药片得以缓解压力。后来,他跟随她来到了世贸中心的顶层,那里正上演着醉生梦死的私人派对,艾利无意中目睹了一次谋杀事件。曼哈顿的一夜,让艾利开始反思此前工作的威胁,后来他开始向老友维多利亚(金•贝辛格 Kim Basinger 饰)寻求帮助,但是真正摆脱困扰显然更加复杂……
瑞典小镇,两名情窦初开的花季少女。影片开始在安妮(瑞贝卡·里尔杰伯格 Rebecka Liljeberg饰)写下的生日愿望中展开,内向自闭的她把这个秘密一直封存在自己的电脑中。在学校里,她也觉得自己没有真正的朋友,直到她转校来到伊琳(亚历桑德拉·达尔斯托姆 Alexandra Dahlström饰)的班上。外向叛逆的伊琳美丽早熟,身边总是围绕着一群讨好她的女生跟一堆追求她的男生。安妮一直默默的注视着她,暗暗把伊琳作为自己的爱恋对象。在生日聚会当天,大家发现了安妮的秘密——希望伊琳可以爱上她。伊琳因为一个赌注真的亲吻了安妮,两人的关系发生了微妙的变化。她们之间这纯真的爱情,是否能够抵过父母的质问与同学的嘲弄,终可挽着双手、昂首挺胸地走出人群呢……