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时尚女模特艾莉森?帕克（Cristina Raines克莉丝汀娜?雷恩丝 饰）在曼哈顿布鲁克林区一幢老式公寓租到一间房子。她曾因目睹父亲的淫乱生活而自杀，如今事业顺利，并收获与律师迈克（Chris Sarandon 饰）的美满爱情，未来的生活仿佛分外美好。新公寓内住着一群奇怪的邻居，他们有的极为热心，有的则对艾莉森作出奇怪的举动。在参加过邻居们举行的聚会之后，惶恐的艾莉森找到房东了解情况，却得知公寓内除了她和一位失明的神父外，再无第三个人存在。这幢阴森的公寓内究竟隐藏着什么样的秘密……

宁静祥和的一天，杰瑞端坐家中看一份广告。广告中称有一个先进的太空站面对老鼠开放，这里不仅设施齐全先进，更重要的是绝对没有一只猫捣乱。阅读广告的时候，汤姆时而开枪时而燃放炸弹，用各种办法戏耍这个小家伙。杰瑞不胜其扰，毅然收拾起行李大踏步地向太空站发射中心走去。眼见朋友生气了，汤姆惊慌失措，用各种办法乞求好友留下来，无奈却阻止不了杰瑞离开的脚步。在此之后，汤姆心情低落，借酒消愁。而顺利通过身体检查的杰瑞即将随着火箭升空。谁曾想到，汤姆也意外加入了这次的旅行……

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.

艾伦（范妮莎?L?威廉姆斯 Vanessa Williams 饰）是美国最大武器武器制造公司西历公司的高级职员，她慢慢发现了这加公司的一些黑幕――该公司生产了一种明令禁止的武器并在黑市交易。FBI利用艾伦获得了一些证据，艾伦成了本案的关键证人。鉴于这间公司的势力，证人保护中心派出了法警约翰（阿诺?施瓦辛格 Arnold Schwarzenegger 饰）前往保护艾伦。当约翰赶到艾伦家时，杀手正在谋杀艾伦。约翰救出了惊魂未定的艾伦，并告诉了她现在情况。安顿好艾伦后，约翰前往酒吧和同伴罗伯特（詹姆斯?凯恩 James Caan 饰）见面，罗伯特告诉约翰因为保护证人的计划泄漏，要重新安排，并要求约翰一起行动。向来都是独立完成任务的约翰起了疑心，他慢慢开始觉得这件事背后的势力并不简单。