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康斯坦丁（奇诺?李维斯 Keanu Reeves 饰）生来就能看出游走在人间的恶魔与天使，这令年幼时的他十分痛苦，曾经自杀想以这种方式结束自己的痛苦。后来获悉了上帝与撒旦之间有过协议，谁也不能直接插足人间，只能间接诱使人们选择天堂与地狱，而自杀者不得上天堂，他便开始利用自己天赋的超能力帮助铲除人间的恶魔，以此祈求获得一张天堂的门票。一次在帮助一名女警调查她的妹妹的离奇死亡事件时，康斯坦丁意外获释了天使长加百利意图和撒旦的儿子联手统治人间的阴谋。康斯坦丁当然要竭尽全力阻止这一黑暗降临人间……

富有的密西西比种植园主人“大老爹”（伯尔·艾弗斯 Burl Ives 饰）正准备庆祝他的六十五岁生日，他的两个儿子库珀（杰克·卡森 Jack Carson 饰）和布雷克（保罗·纽曼 Paul Newman 饰）各自带着媳妇前往参加生日聚会。然而“大老爹”并不知道的是，自己身患癌症将不久于人世。大儿子库珀身为律师并管理着大笔产业，他与妻子梅（马德琳·谢伍德 Madeleine Sherwood 饰）已经生了几个孩子，急切地希望继承父亲的百万财产。相较于哥哥生活的完美幸福，曾为足球明星的布雷克却是整日沉溺在酒精中无法自拔。自从一年前他的老友自杀，他便拒绝与贤妻玛姬（伊丽莎白·泰勒 Elizabeth Taylor 饰）同房，原因就是他怀疑玛姬与老友有染。对一切失去信心的布雷克开始质疑生活的意义。本片改编自由田纳西·威廉斯创作的同名戏剧，荣获1959年包括奥斯卡金像奖、美国电影金球奖及英国电影和电视艺术学院奖在内的11项提名。

Fraught with over obvious symbolism, Hartley's early feature is nonetheless a joy to watch. Hal here shows us his uncanny ability to cast his characters perfectly came early in his career.Adrienne Shelley is a near perfect foil to herself, equal parts annoying teen burgeoning in her sexuality (though using sex for several years); obsessed with doom and inspired by idealism gone wrong she is deceptively – and simultaneously – complex and simple. Her Audrey inspires so many levels of symbolism it is almost embarrassingly rich (e.g., her modeling career beginning with photos of her foot – culminating her doing nude (but unseen) work; Manhattan move; Europe trip; her stealing, then sleeping with the mechanics wrench, etc.)As Josh, Robert Burke gives an absolutely masterful performance. A reformed prisoner/penitent he returns to his home town to face down past demons, accept his lot and begin a new life. Dressed in black, and repeatedly mistaken for a priest, he corrects everyone ("I'm a mechanic"), yet the symbolism is rich: he abstains from alcohol, he practices celibacy (is, in fact a virgin), and seemingly has taken on vows of poverty, and humility as well. The humility seems hardest to swallow seeming, at times, almost false, a pretense. Yet, as we learn more of Josh we see genuineness in his modesty, that his humility is indeed earnest and believable. What seems ironic is the character is fairly forthright in his simplicity, yet so richly drawn it becomes the viewer who wants to make him out as more than what he actually is. A fascinatingly written character, perfectly played.The scene between Josh and Jane (a wonderful, young Edie Falco . . . "You need a woman not a girl") is hilarious . . . real. But Hartley can't leave it as such and his trick, having the actors repeat the dialogue over-and-over becomes frustratingly "arty" and annoying . . . until again it becomes hilarious. What a terrific sense of bizarre reality this lends the film (like kids in a perpetual "am not"/"are too" argument).Hartley's weaves all of a small neighborhood's idiosyncrasies into a tapestry of seeming stereotypes but which delves far beneath the surface, the catalyst being that everyone believes they know what the "unbelievable truth" of the title is, yet no two people can agree (including our hero) on what exactly that truth is. A wonderful little movie with some big ideas.

根据阿瑟·米勒同名戏剧改编，由德国导演沃尔克·施隆多夫指导，1985年CBS电视台出品的电视电影。