在德克萨斯州一个名为敖德萨的小城上,种族的歧视和经济的萧条让小城了无生气。唯有每个周五的晚上,沸腾的莱特利弗体育场才会燃起整个小城的生机和活力,所有人的目光都集中在帕米亚高中橄榄球队的队员们身上。帕米亚球队早就向全国证明了自己的实力与成功,他们势要赢得建队30年以来的第五个州冠军。然而球队出现了经济危机,他们不仅要为荣誉而战,更要通过这次比赛向赞助商证明自己的实力,以让赞助商继续投资。球队灵魂教练加里·贾恩斯(比利·鲍伯·松顿 Billy Bob Thornton 饰)以他的铁腕手段率领球队一路拼杀,他说:完美就是能够正视你的朋友,不让他们失望。敖德萨小城人民对他们的支持就是最大的动力,为了捍卫这座小城,队员们将会拼尽全力。 影片根据作家H·G·Bissinger的小说改编而成。
American psychologist John Holden arrives in London to participate in a symposium aiming to expose witchcraft and devil-worship as a fraud, with attention centered on a cult run by a Julian Karswell. Debarking his plane, Holden learns that the symposium leader, Henry Harrington, has suddenly died and he is now in charge. What only the audience knows is that Harrington was clearly killed by a demon, apparently summoned by Karswell to avenge his persecution. Despite both threatening and cajoling behavior by Karswell, Holden determines to proceed, though the only cult member willing to talk about his experiences is in a prison psychiatric ward, catatonic after allegedly killing yet another cult member. However, Harrington's niece, Joanna, believes, based on her uncle's notes, that Karswell may indeed have some satanic powers derived from an ancient tome in an obscure language which he has been able to translate, and attempts to warn the skeptic Holden. Karswell's mother also attempts to warn Holden off. However, the thing which begins to most get to Holden are the occasional, but mounting, sensory and mental disturbances he begins experiencing after an encounter with Karswell, and the discovery that, during this encounter, Karswell secretly slipped a slip of parchment with a curse in runic symbols on it into Holden's belongings, a parchment identical to one Harrington recorded having had passed to him in a similar manner shortly before his death... [N.B. Holden at no point stays at the Karswell estate].
吉村公三郎代表作,也是蘇珊.桑塔最喜愛的日本經典片之一。吉村愛向難度挑戰,喜歡實驗,討厭被歸類,是松竹的壞孩子,卻因此為日本電影開創出不少可能性。影片描寫日本戰後,末落貴族變賣大宅前舉行的最後一場舞會。吉村親歷這樣的一個舞會,他用所見所感,寫出一個個玲瓏浮凸的人物:戀棧風光的父親,目空一切的兒子,不肯放下身段的大女兒...道盡大時代的種種細碎。也是原節子代表作,這個洞悉世情的次女兒與父親起舞,成為全片焦點,也為時代作了精采的解讀。 World War II is over, and the once-prominent Anjo family has fallen on hard times. They must finally sell the family home - but not before one last ball to recapture their glory days. However, old secrets and high emotions threaten to turn the evening into tragedy. Proud patriarch Tadahiko (Takizawa) can barely keep his unruly offspring in check, and tries every last trick to keep the house where he has spent the happiest years of his life. In his darkest hour, daughter Atsuko (frequent Ozu heroine, Hara Setsuko) shows her beleaguered father the hard-won dignity in starting over. SummerIFF 2007