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畅销恐怖小说作家萨特·凯恩（尤尔根·普洛斯诺 Jürgen Prochnow 饰）离奇失踪。由他撰写即将出版印刷的一部分小说手稿也随之神秘消失。凯恩身临其境的描写和大胆前瞻的预测，让此书还未出版就享有盛誉。很多粉丝如痴如醉的陷入他的作品之中不能自拔，甚至做出失去理性的暴力行为。为了不耽误出版，出版商找来私家侦探约翰·特伦特（山姆·尼尔 Sam Neill 饰）和女编辑琳达·斯泰尔斯（朱莉·卡门 Julie Carmen 饰）一起追查凯恩的下落。约翰起初并不相信此书的魔力，然而当他和琳达到达凯恩笔下所写的小镇的时候，两人都震惊了。这个小镇真的如同凯恩所描绘的一样，而小说里恐怖诡异的事情也旋即发生。

伊拉克战争时期，来自美国德州的19岁技术兵比利·林恩（乔·阿尔文 Joe Alwyn 饰）因为一段偶然拍摄的视频而家喻户晓。那是一次规模不大却激烈非常的遭遇战，战斗中林恩所在的B班班长（范·迪塞尔 Vin Diesel 饰）遭到当地武装分子的伏击和劫持，而林恩为了营救班长不惜铤而走险冲锋陷阵。视频公布于世让他成为全美民众所崇拜的英雄，然而却鲜有人理解他和战友们所经历的一切。为了安葬班长，B班得到了短暂的休假，因此他们得以受邀参加一场在德州举行的橄榄球比赛。林恩的姐姐因某事件深感愧疚，她希望弟弟能借此机缘回归普通生活。而周围的经纪人、球迷、大老板、普通民众则对战争、卫国、士兵有着各种各样想当然的理解。球场上的庆典盛大开幕，林恩和战友们的心却愈加沉重与焦躁……本片根据作家本·方丹（Ben Fountain）的同名小说改编。

在目睹一名病人诡异的创伤经验之后，萝丝·卡特医师（索茜·贝肯 饰）开始经历一些她无法解释的恐怖事件。当一股令人不寒而栗的可怕力量开始占据她的生活，萝丝就必须面对她令人不安的阴暗过去，才能够存活并逃离她充满恐惧的全新现实。

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.