红犬历险记

二十世纪最后的夏天。那一天，人类终于知道自己并非地球这颗行星唯一的统治者。巨型生物「怪兽」，以及驱逐怪兽的终极存在「哥斯拉」出现了。经历与怪兽之间长达半个世纪的战争，人类屡战屡败，最终计划逃出地球。2048年，经过中央政府管理的人工智能筛选，一部分人类乘坐跨恒星移民飞船「阿拉特拉姆」号踏上了前往11.9光年之外的「鲸鱼座τ星e」的旅程。然而，人类花费20年所抵达的星球与地球之间的环境差距远超预期，不适宜人类生存。移民飞船上有一名青年——晴雄。4岁的时候，他亲眼目睹父母被哥斯拉杀害。20年来他始终想着回到地球消灭哥斯拉。移民的可能性已经灰飞烟灭，飞船内的生存环境也越发恶劣，以晴雄为中心的「重返地球派」成为主流，他们决定经过危险的长距离亚空间航行返回地球。然而，地球经过2万年的演化已经形成了以哥斯拉为顶端的生态体系，完全成为了一个未知世界。最终人类能否夺回地球？晴雄的命运又将如何？

戴维（伍迪·哈里森 Woody Harrelso 饰）和黛安娜（黛米·摩尔 Demi Moor 饰）是一对感情很好的夫妻，两人事业成功，生活幸福，但经济萧条的到来使两人工作每况愈下，甚至连住房都无法操持。他们不甘以失败，下决心去赌城一搏。开始时，他们运气极好，但很快，两人就输光了所有的钱。这时，一位年老英俊的百万富翁盖奇（罗伯特·雷德福 Robert Redfor 饰）提出帮他们，但条件是用100万换取与黛安娜共度一夜，终于，金钱的诱惑力战胜了一切，夫妇两人立下了字据，做了桃色交易。两人回到家中约定永不提此事，但事与愿违，两人感情出现裂痕。这时，盖奇又进入了他们的生活，热烈地追求，戴维一气之下离家出走。最终这一对曾经的爱人是否能够既往不咎？而百万富翁究竟是真心爱着戴安娜，还是另有其他目的？

本片根据史上最大的优惠券造假骗局改编，讲述一名住在郊区的家庭主妇(贝尔饰)受够了被丈夫和社会忽视的生活。于是她试图通过成立一个非法优惠券俱乐部来重新掌控自己的生活，并最终和她的剪券同伴一起从食品公司骗取了数百万美元。雷克萨将饰演一位名叫Tempe Tina的电脑黑客。

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.