River of Grass has all the elements of a conventional road movie: a car, a gun, criminal plans, and young lovers on the run from an angry father who also happens to be a suspended police officer. But writer and director Kelly Reichardt has instead taken these familiar elements and fashioned an anti-road movie, a deadpan film that is more existentialist comedy than crime drama. The young lovers in question are Cozy, the cop's daughter, and Lee Ray, a shady character from the wrong end of town. Lee Ray comes into possession of a pistol, and soon he and Cozy find themselves unintentionally involved in a shooting. Fearing capture by the law, the two make plans to leave town, committing a series of robberies on the way. However, they don't manage to get very far indeed, the film's central premise is how the romantic myth of lovers on the lam proves disappointing in the face of a far more pedestrian reality. This well-received, low-budget indie was shot on location in South Florida, placing its story against an appropriately depressed landscape of sun-bleached strip malls, barren highways and overgrown, swampy fields the title is another name for the Florida Everglades.

　　三年前无故失踪，抛夫弃子的母亲突然回到家中，渴望破镜重圆，但一切情形已不同于当年，小孩已渐独立而昔日丈夫也有了知心女友。面对重重阻碍，这位心理变态的母亲以各种破坏手段进行她的计划，她誓言得到她原有的幸福，经历一幕幕恐怖事件之后，这位母亲终于自食恶果结束这场游戏。