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　　每个人的青春期都或多或少的有过迷茫，躁动，愤怒和困惑。电影主人公贾斯汀（卢•泰勒•普奇 Lou Taylor Pucci饰）有着吮拇指的幼稚习惯。贾斯汀一直想要克服这个难缠的习惯，其实这个习惯只是一个青少年青春期困惑的一个缩影，其他的困惑还包括性和家庭等。在改变这个习惯的意愿下隐藏的，是贾斯汀对成长的不自觉的渴望。每个人成年人都可以在这部电影中找到自己曾经的影子，这个故事中的严肃，真挚，诙谐，都是那段青春时光不可抵抗的魅力。

　　纽约百老汇，戏剧导演Oscar Jaffe（约翰·巴里摩尔 John Barrymore 饰）捧红了女演员Lily Garland（卡洛·朗白 Carole Lombard 饰），两人成为百老汇票房保证，同时也是一对情侣。合作三年后，Lily因为受不了Oscar对她私人生活的过度干预，偷偷跑去了好莱坞演电影。Oscar一怒之下起用了新的女演员，可惜票房很差，还在芝加哥欠下了债。在从芝加哥回纽约的二十世纪列车上，Oscar机缘巧合又和Lily在同一列火车上。Oscar试图挽回Lily，不管是爱情还是演戏，但Lily已经有了另外的恋人，也对重新和Oscar合作不感兴趣。这列火车上碰巧有一位脑子不大好使的大富翁，Oscar利用这个富翁给他开了张支票，试图以这张支票来让Lily签了演戏的合约。然而这位所谓“大富翁”原来不过是个精神病人，Oscar手中的支票毫无价值。心灰意冷的Oscar决定开枪自尽......

　　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……

　　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?