Jennifer is a seventeen years old misfit punk teenager that uses piercing, tattoos, wears only black clothes and dyed hair, self-inflicts injures and has fixation for death. She misses a father and a normal mother, since Mrs. Benson has trouble in the communication with her, and feels absolutely rejected. While looking for a job, she meets the forty-nine years old Randall Harris, a lonely man who owns a shopping store, and he hires her. They are opposites but with loneliness and lack of friends in common. They become close friends, and their interaction changes their behavior for good while secrets and feelings are disclosed.
本片根据纽约市的英籍神经医师奥利佛·萨克斯(Oliver Sacks)的同名回忆录改编。1969年,羞怯内向但对实验充满热忱的脑科医生马尔科姆·塞尔(罗宾·威廉姆斯 Robin Williams 饰)来到纽约市布朗克斯区一家医院,对院内的强直性昏厥证患者进行治疗。在护士埃莉诺(朱莉·卡夫娜 Julie Kavner 饰)的帮助和鼓励下,塞尔医生对病人大胆用药,使一群昏厥几十年的患者重获新生,尤其对患者伦纳德·洛(罗伯特·德尼罗 Robert De Niro)效果尤为明显。但令人意外的是,患者们在苏醒后不久,又纷纷出现了病情恶化的趋势……
本片获奥斯卡最佳影片、最佳男主角(罗伯特·德尼罗)和最佳改编剧本奖提名,并获金球奖剧情类影片最佳男主角提名(罗宾·威廉姆斯)。
故事发生在美国底特律,不断升高的犯罪率和持续扩大的犯罪势力让警方苦不堪言,为了控制这些“不稳定的因素”,警方划出了“红砖特区”,用以隔离罪犯和平民。在特区之中,以毒枭特里梅因(罗伯特·菲茨杰拉德·迪格斯 RZA 饰)为首的犯罪集团掌控着大部分的资源和权利,构筑了一种岌岌可危的微妙平衡。
一场意外让利诺(大卫·贝尔 David Belle 饰)成为了特里梅因的眼中钉,为了引出利诺,特里梅因绑架了他的女友罗拉(卡塔利娜·丹尼斯 Catalina Denis 饰),与此同时,野心勃勃的探员达米安(保罗·沃克 Paul Walker 饰)亦希望能够将作恶多端的特里梅因捉拿归案,个性迥异但境遇相同的利诺和达米安走到了一起,决定联手。
After he graduated from high school, Julien left Normandy - where he was born and bred - to build a bigger life for himself in Paris, leaving his memories behind. But one day, it is time for him to go back, and all these memories violently come back to the surface.
A group of friends decide to make a documentary about the ghosts that are supposed to be haunting The Sanatorium in Costa Rica, things get creepy when the arrive to the place.