孩子眼中的世界在这部电影里美妙的展开,父母双亡的小玛丽(凯特·马伯里 Kate Maberly饰)来到苏格兰的亲戚家住了下来。这是个美丽而又有点神秘的庄园,尤其是秘密花园更是玛丽心中的一个大谜团。原来,玛丽的姨母曾经在自己这个花园的千秋上丧命,姨父便从此紧锁了花园大门。
无意中发现了钥匙的玛丽打开了花园的大门。从此,花园成为了玛丽与大自然水乳交融的圣地。玛丽还带上了长期坐在轮椅上的表弟科林(海登·普劳斯 Heydon Prowse饰),他本来封闭的视野在神奇的大自然面前变得豁然开朗,而朋友迪康(安德鲁诺特 Andrew Knott饰)更是在这里和他的鸟儿朋友们聊天,秘密花园的大门就这样通向了孩子们心中的天堂……
一次偶然中,西德尼(菲利浦·贝克·霍尔 Philip Baker Hall 饰)遇见了名为约翰(约翰·C·赖利 John C. Reilly 饰)的男子,他将穷困潦倒的约翰带到了赌场之中,教会了他赌术,希望约翰能够借此时来运转。在赌场,西德尼遇见了违反了赌场规定和客人进行肉体交易的女招待克莱门汀(格温妮丝·帕特洛 Gwyneth Paltrow 饰),哪知道克莱门汀和约翰一见面就坠入了情网,马上决定携手步入婚姻的殿堂。 西德尼的朋友吉米(塞缪尔·杰克逊 Samuel L. Jackson 饰)找到了西德尼,他的手中握着一个属于西德尼的秘密。如今,吉米以这个秘密为筹码想要要挟和勒索西德尼,不料却惹上了杀身之祸。
This is an interesting yet bizarre little tale of a fictional (as far as I know, anyway) experiment performed during the Stalin-controlled years in the USSR. The main character is changed from a woman into a man. This is part of a larger plan to change more women into men and have a stronger work-forcearmy, etc. It's a very in-depth character study of the main character, who tries to fit into a world that she (now 'he') doesn't really understand, especially since she's now a man ... Stalin dislikes the results of the experiments and has the scientist killed. The main character then goes off to live a life as a simple, unknown everyday Soviet, but is inexplicably drawn into larger and larger schemes (somewhat reminiscent of Forrest Gump in that way). (s)He has run-ins with different important characters, including his ex-boyfriend from his days of being a woman, as well as going on a demented quest for the nurse with whom he possibly fell in love after the operation... However, he is trapped in his life as an important Soviet married man, and in the end makes a huge sacrifice for his country (unwillingly), and the movie goes from there to an ending that is possibly happy, yet still somehow incredibly depressing.
1839年,运送黑奴的阿米斯塔德号在大洋上遭遇暴风雨,黑奴们趁乱暴动,将船员砍杀,控制了阿米斯塔德号后试图驶回家乡,然而六周后,他们阴差阳错抵达了美国,幸存下来的44名黑奴被美国军方逮捕,并将面临杀人罪的指控。此时,西班牙女王向美国总统要求引渡这些属于西班牙的黑奴;两名海军军官也宣称黑奴是他们的战利品;另有人拿出了在古巴购买这些黑奴的证明。各方争执之际,废奴会的领袖之一、同时也是船公司负责人的乔德森(摩根·弗里曼 Morgan Freeman 饰)与友人塔培安雇佣了律师罗杰,希望证明这些黑奴来自非洲,从而在废奴观念深入人心的大环境下为他们谋取自由……
故事发生在二战结束之后,安东尼娅(维力奇·范·阿麦莱 Willeke van Ammelrooy 饰)带着女儿达尼埃莱(埃尔斯·多特曼斯 Els Dottermans 饰)回到了久违的家乡。安东尼娅乐善好施的善良性格为战后满目疮痍的家园带来的新的希望,她先后收留了痴呆女孩代代(玛丽娜·德·格拉夫 Marina de Graaf 饰)和农夫巴斯(简·德克莱尔 Jan Decleir 饰)等人,组件了一个特殊的家族——安东尼娅家族。 一种温馨又紧密的关系维系着这些并没有血缘关系的家人们,在相互扶持之间,却也存在着难以调和的矛盾。达尼埃莱怀孕后生下了特雷莎(Veerle van Overloop 饰),小特雷莎长大后,却惨遭皮特(Filip Peeters 饰)的强暴。随着时间的流逝,安东尼娅家族不断的壮大着,而安东尼娅自己的生命却走向了尽头。