This is an unusual film of exceptional values--75 minutes long in color, with hardly any spoken dialogs. I saw this Iranian film in Farsi without English subtitles at the Early Iranian cinema retrospective on-going International Film Festival of Kerala, India. That I was watching a print without subtitles did not make a difference as there were very few lines of spoken dialogs. This is a very accessible film for any audience to enjoy--its story and values are not merely Iranian, it's universal. The film is set in rural Iran that had not tasted petro-dollar prosperity. The setting is on fringes of desert land, where water is scarce, rainfall scanty and hardly any blade of grass is green. Add to it wind and dust that buffets and whips man and animal and you can imagine plight of the people who live on the fringes of society. The film is moving tale of a young teenager returning to his village with a goat--only to find his family and villagers have moved on to escape natures vagaries and that one old man remains. He gives the goat to him and goes in search of his family. Water is scarce and well water it treated with reverence and never wasted.
巴克(约翰·坎迪 John Candy 饰)是一名快乐的单身汉,既然一个人生活,那么在日常中,他难免会大大咧咧笨手笨脚些。本以为一个人的生活会一直持续下去,谁知道某一日,哥哥鲍勃(加勒特·布朗 Garrett M. Brown 饰)和嫂子辛迪(Elaine Bromka 饰)邀请他到他们家做客,并且将他们的三个孩子托付给了巴克照料。 很快,巴克乐呵呵的个性便得到了年幼的梅兹(盖比·霍夫曼 Gaby Hoffmann 饰)和迈尔斯(麦考利·卡尔金 Macaulay Culkin 饰)的喜爱,只有正处于叛逆期的提亚(珍·路易莎·凯利 Jean Louisa Kelly 饰)依然对他十分的戒备和抗拒。但是没有关系,真诚总是动人的,随着时间的推移,巴克和三个孩子之间产生了真挚的感情。
故事发生在六十年代的塔尔萨城,在这里,学生们分为南北两个帮派,南帮的都是一些含着金汤匙出生的富家子弟,而北帮则充斥着出身贫民窟的名不见经传的穷小子们,南北两帮向来势不两立水火不容,常常发生激烈的矛盾和冲突,是当地巨大的不安定因素之一。 波尼博伊(C·托马斯·豪威尔 C. Thomas Howell 饰)、约翰尼(拉尔夫·马奇奥 Ralph Macchio 饰)和达拉斯(马特·狄龙 Matt Dillon 饰)是北帮成员,彼此之间友谊十分坚实。在一场恶斗之中,约翰尼失手将南帮成员鲍勃(雷夫·加勒特 Leif Garrett 饰)杀死,在达拉斯的帮助下,波尼博伊和约翰尼藏身在一座教堂之中,这里成为了两个男孩子暂时躲避外界残酷纷争的世外桃源。
Lucienne Delamare and Pierre Maury are having an affair. Lucienne's husband Paul is the mayor, and a French deputy. Pierre's wife Clotilde has been weak and sickly for years. Lucienne's husband holds no excitement for her, and he is always away in Paris on business. Pierre is now the vice-mayor, thanks to Paul. Lucienne and Pierre have a secret meeting spot by a lake along a country lane. Pierre's wife dies suddenly, by suicide the town gossips believe. Pierre confesses otherwise to Lucienne. Paul proposes a shady land deal which will benefit the town, and wants Pierre's political support and collusion. Then Paul discovers proof of his wife's affair...