星际宝贝

医药公司老板钱程斥资建立了一座位于密林深处的生物制药研究实验室，通过改造鲨鱼的基因来研制一种新型的抗癌药物，然而就在该药物即将大量投入生产时，一场巨大的危机也悄然降临：由于更改了鲨鱼的基因致使其基因突变性情凶猛，并展现出其它生物的特征，虽然研究员叶歆及时向上级反馈，但老板钱程置若罔闻，下令继续加紧实验，没想到危机爆发。

居住在纽约的匈牙利移民威利（约翰·劳瑞 John Lurie 饰）是一个自认为时髦的年轻人，受姨妈之托，很不情愿地接待素未谋面的表妹艾娃（伊斯特·伯林特 eszter balint 饰）来住所借宿10天。然而在短暂又无聊的十天中，个性的艾娃却渐渐赢得了威利的好感，也与他 的好哥们艾迪（Richard Edson 饰）成为了朋友。时间来到一年后，威利和艾迪打扑克赢下了许多钱，他们决定离开这座城市，去克利夫兰找艾娃。亦是因为无聊，三个朋友在回合后又决定离开克利夫兰，一起去佛罗里达度假。然而在佛罗里达，无聊的时光终于出现了戏剧性的变化，威利和艾迪去赛狗输光了所有钱，而艾娃却在海边散步时，被一个毒贩误认而获得一笔意外之财。艾娃给两个伙伴留下了一些钱后，便准备买机票飞回欧洲，而与此同时，威利和艾迪去赛马又把钱赢了回来，他们能否在机场顺利追回艾娃……本片曾获1984年洛迦诺国际电影节金豹奖以及1985年圣丹斯电影节评委会特别奖。

Aki and Naoko are childhood friends who are drifting apart as adults. Immersed in her family life, Naoko now has a husband and daughter; Aki, on the other hand, remains single and is on leave from work due to a personal crisis. The plot might sound familiar but it has never been told like this. The director Kusano Natsuka stages the interactions through an actors’ table-read and, as the lines are repeated, the scenes gradually develop into on-location conversations. Moreover, she repositions the dramatic peak of the story to the beginning: Aki has murdered Naoko’s daughter.Structurally inventive, Kusano's daring cinema implements ‘distantiation’ effects to get to the heart of friendship issues at times when life has settled. While the repetitions convey the suffocation of role patterns in both friendship and family, a line left out or added in unsettles and reminds us life can take unexpected turns.

映画では、澪に新たな恋の予感も。