在Jon(约瑟夫·高登-莱维特 Joseph Gordon-Levitt 饰)的人生里他只在乎这几件事:健身、飙车、去教堂、泡妞和看色情录像。虽然Jon的周围并不缺少和他上床的漂亮姑娘,可是Jon从来没有从与这些女孩的关系中得到满足感。相反,只有在看色情录像的时候Jon才能感受到“忘我的快感”。Jon不知不觉间将这样的矛盾带入了与新女友芭芭拉(斯嘉丽·约翰逊 Scarlett Johansson 饰)的关系中。虽然Jon不可自拔疯狂地爱上了芭芭拉,可是芭芭拉不能接受男友背着自己看色情录像这个事实。而这时熟女艾斯特(朱丽安·摩尔 Julianne Moore 饰)的出现令Jon对男女关系产生了新的认识。当面对美丽的女友和令人不能自拔的色情录像,Jon将做出怎样的选择?而这两个女性又将给Jon在对待男女关系的态度上带来怎样的改变?
本片是约瑟夫·高登-莱维特首次执导的影片。
In 1939, American Tom Martin, who fought in the Spanish Civil War, awaits execution at the hands of the Fascist victors when reporter Augusta 'Gusto' Nash, for a scoop, aids him in an audacious escape. Of course, Tom tries to romance Gusto; but though she likes him, her career comes first, and Tom himself prefers freedom-fighting to settling down. Comedy becomes drama as their mixed feelings lead them on a circuitous path through the deepening chaos and catastrophe of the early days of World War II.
There's little wonder in the working-class lives of Bill, Eileen, and their three grown daughters. They're lonely Londoners. Nadia, a cafe waitress, places personal ads, looking for love; Debbie, a single mom, entertains men at the hair salon after hours; her son spends part of the weekend with her ex, a man with a hair-trigger temper. Molly is expecting her first baby and its father acts as if the responsibility is too much for him. Eileen is bitter, complaining about her husband and the dog next door; Bill's a doormat. His West Indian neighbor offers him a drink; her own grown son locks himself in his room most of the time. Will anyone connect during this Guy Fawkes weekend? Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>
A film version of a play Fassbinder directed in Hamburg, Clare Booth Luce's "The Women". It gave Fassbinder an opportunity to indulge his passion for working with women - there are forty women in the play and no men.
The play dates from the 1930s, and Fassbinder was accused by the critics of being anti-women (a frequent criticism of late). As usual, he chose to work "against" the text, and from this has constructed an entertaining and engaging play about love between upper-class women with nothing better to do than sneer at others when things go wrong with their lives and loves.