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　　电影改编自美国作曲家科尔·波特的生平。
　　故事发生在法国巴黎，美国人波特（凯文·克莱恩 Kevin Kline 饰）带着对未来的憧憬和远大梦想来到了这个处处充满了艺术气息的都市，在这里，波特结识了名叫琳达（艾什莉·贾德 Ashley Judd 饰）的美丽女子，琳达的出现重新唤起了波特对于女人的渴望，两人之间的关系迅速热络了起来，之后走入了婚姻的殿堂。
　　对于波特的事业，琳达十分关注，她将波特的作品推荐给了著名作曲家欧文（基思·艾伦 Keith Allen 饰），以此为契机，波特逐渐在业内站稳了脚跟。随着波特的逐渐出名，他和琳达之间的关系开始产生了裂缝，相爱但无法相守的两人沉浸在痛苦之中，一个家庭眼看就要破碎。

　　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?

　　十五年前的万圣节，哈登菲尔德镇的六岁男孩迈克尔（威尔•桑丁 Will•Sandin 饰）用一把菜刀杀死了他的姐姐，当人们发现他时，他正双手血淋淋的呆望着天空，无论怎样问话，他保持着那个姿势一动也不动。于是，迈克尔被送进了精神病院。在那里，医生费尽了心思，用尽了各种方法，迈克尔还是呆望天空一动也不动。直到1978年的12月30日，迈克尔（东尼•莫兰 Tony•Moran 饰）似乎听到了某种召唤，偷了精神病院的钥匙，独自偷走回到了家乡哈登菲尔德。一场新的杀戮即将开始……