著名导演，暴力宗师北野武（北野武 饰）突然厌倦以往拍摄的黑帮电影，宣布再也不拍黑帮片，涉猎其他的题材。 北野武开始尝试各种影片。他拍摄了小津安二郎风格的亲情片、催人泪下的爱情片、反映50年代社会风貌的怀旧片、恐怖片、忍者片、科幻片等十多部电影，都因为不同的原因而失败，他的导演生涯因此遭遇到瓶颈，需要反思。
Ana is a girl from Seville, who's sick of her family and the problematic neighborhood they live in. But things are about to get even worse when her mother, in a desperate attempt not to get evicted, comes up with a cunning plan...
37岁的拉菲（乌玛•瑟曼 饰）不久前离异了，伤心难过的她向心理医生丽莎（梅丽尔•斯特里普 饰）倾诉心事。一次偶遇，她认识了23岁的小伙子达夫（布莱恩•加连保格 饰），他迅速爱上了拉菲。由于年龄上的差异，使拉菲心存顾忌。此间，拉菲常常与心理医生丽莎提及男友的事，丽莎给了她很多鼓励与支持，才让拉菲决定与达夫开展新恋情。 丽莎也遇到了儿子给予的难题，儿子爱上了一个比自己年长的女人，更没想到的是她的儿子——达夫爱上的是自己的病人拉菲……
Ah Huang, Ah Qiang and Ah Hui have been friends for as long as they can remember. When Ah Huang's mounting debts drive him to desperate measures, Ah Qiang and Ah Hui agree to lend him money. He uses the money to build an illegal business. Even after the business become successful, he refuses to repay the money to his friends. However, when the business collapses, Ah Huang is forced to question everything as his family, friendships, and remaining money are all threatened.
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?
