灰熊之夜

　　维克多（Paul Blain 饰）和妻子安妮特（Marie-Christine Friedrich 饰）结婚多年，两人共同养育着女儿帕梅拉（Victoire Rousseau 饰），一家人住在风景如诗如画的维也纳，日子平静之中充满了幸福。然而，让安妮特没有想到的是，维克多竟然沾染上了毒品，整日和毒贩们厮混在一起。
　　回到巴黎后，维克多不仅没有改邪归正，反而变本加厉，一个幸福美满的家庭眼看着就要毁于一旦。在发现维克多不可能改变后，安妮特果断的带着帕梅拉离开了家，两人相依为命，隐姓埋名的生活着，一晃眼就是十一年过去。彼时的帕梅拉已经成长为了亭亭玉立的大女孩，童年时代不幸的经历让她对父亲充满了愤怒和怨怼。当帕梅拉得知自己的父亲依然活着，并且就和自己生活在同一个城市后，她决定去见一见他。

　　故事开始于1964年，阿维（李戴 饰）自幼便生活在原始雨林中，从来都没有接受过文明的洗礼，也不知道人类社会的存在和其中的规则。一天，阿维偶然邂逅了名为华特（约翰·库萨克 John Cusack 饰）的制图员，华特惊讶于自己的发现，决定将这个孩子带回文明社会。
　　刚开始，骤变的生活环境让阿维感到十分的不适，没有人愿意和他这样的野孩子做朋友，在学校里，他认识了拥有印第安血统的女孩艾伯丁（安娜·帕里约 Anne Parillaud 饰），后者成为了他第一个朋友。最终，阿维还是选择回到了故乡，成为了一名猎人，一晃眼多年过去，命运让他和艾伯丁重逢了。

　　在入狱多年后，一个饱受折磨的男人试图重建自己的生活，但一个意想不到的纽带揭示了一个令人震惊的真相，这个真相可能会永远改变他的生活。

　　Siskel and Ebert once ran a special show entitled "Movies I'm Embarrassed to Admit I Liked." I suppose that if I composed such a list of guilty pleasures, this one would be one of them . . . but upon reflection, it's really a lot better than that. Fifteen year-old science prodigy Mitch (Gabe Jarret) is recruited by ambitious college professor William Atherton (in yet another of his patented roles as a loathsome character) to work on the professor's prize laser project, not knowing that the prof is really developing a government weapon. Along the way, Mitch is befriended by Chris (Val Kilmer), another prodigy a few years his senior who teaches the Mitch how to loosen up.
　　This could have degenerated into nothing more than just another teen revenge comedy, but there's so much more: the dialogue is laced with sharp wit there are some lovely scenes that have nothing to do with the story yet are carefully set up, almost as blackouts (e.g., Mitch goes to a lecture at which a few students have left tape recorders instead of attending later, at another lecture there are more tape recorders than students and, in a final scene, one large tape recorder gives the lecture to a room populated by nothing but other small recorders!) and throw-away scenes that make you want to stop and back up the tape (e.g., Chris off-handedly cutting a slice off a bar of solid nitrogen to make a slug for the coffee machine).
　　It's also one of the few movies to boast the presence of the memorable Michelle Meyerink -- as Jordan, the "girl-nerd" who made being smart and female something to be emulated. And there's Tears for Fears great song, "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" providing the perfect coda as the closing credits begin to roll . . . . Yes: really now, what's there to be embarrassed about?