基于戴安娜·奈德所著畅销自传《Find A Way》,她在70年代被视为世界上最杰出的长距离游泳选手,曾打破数个世界纪录。2013年,64的岁的奈德在最好的朋友和35名热心支持者的帮助下,不带防鲨笼完成了青年时期多次失败过的毕生梦想:横渡从古巴到佛罗里达的110英里海域,是第一个达此成就的人。
这片危险海域有世上首屈一指的鲨鱼、毒性极强的水母、无法捉摸的洋流、涡流,50年代开始就游泳健将尝试,奈德也差点丧命,经过了五次挑战最终成功。
Harry Moseby (Gene Hackman), a worn-out private detective, is hired to look for a 16-year-old girl who has run away from the luxury home of her mother, formerly a small-time actress in Los Angeles. The more the weary cynic tries to get under the surface of the seemingly simple case, the harder it is for him to find his bearings among the lies and deceptions that surround him. Eight years after the key New Hollywood film Bonnie and Clyde, Arthur Penn and Gene Hackman reunited to collaborate on what was to become one of the most undervalued films of the decade. Like Polanski in Chinatown or Altman in The Long Goodbye, in his revisionist film noir, Penn also allows the 1940s classic genre to pervade the complex reality of the 1970s. The feelings of bitterness and emptiness in the modern Chandleresque protagonist originate not only in the “public” sphere of the strange, increasingly convoluted case, but in his private life as well (boyhood trauma, a broken marriage). As Moseby remarks of a sporting event, “nobody’s winning … one side is just losing slower than the other.”