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爱德华（理查?吉尔 饰）与妻子康妮（黛安?莱恩 饰）是令人艳羡的一对，他们有一个8岁的儿子。他们结婚已有11年，日子过得平平淡淡却十分美满幸福。可是生活的一成不变是康妮开始有些厌倦了。正在此时，她邂逅了神秘男子（奥利佛?马提纳兹 饰），更一发不可收拾的爱上了这名陌生人。面对丈夫，康妮不得不一而再再而三的向丈夫撒谎，不知不觉间，她已陷身于危险之中。爱德华还是发现了妻子的异样，当他知道了妻子果真有越轨行为的时候，他疯狂得要知道妻子对他不忠的所以细节。无奈知道得越多越痛苦，接着他偷偷约见了妻子的情人……

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.

这部电影描述了一位作家哈蒙（John Cassavetes饰）和他的妹妹莎拉（Gena Rowlands饰）生命中的几天。电影中的大部分情节都是在哈蒙的家里发生的，他们在生活中挣扎：哈蒙过着极其颓废的生活，靠酒、烟、以及一段段短期的和女人的关系度日：或者是工作关系认识的女人，或是娱乐场所认识的女人。他也是一个非常不称职的父亲，把自己12岁的儿子扔在酒店的旅馆里里，甚至还教他学喝酒。而他的妹妹莎拉因为她的疯狂的言行正在和自己的丈夫离婚，她的女儿想要和父亲生活在一起，这给她极大的伤害，几乎精神崩溃。在电影的结尾，莎拉离开了哈蒙的家，和另外一个男人在一起，而哈蒙走到银幕前给观众说再见，也和自己的生命告别。

影片选择一位摄影师的妻女关系为主线，介绍北京一个家庭独生女的日常生活经历。在摄拍摄过程中，难得地披露了这一家庭日常生活中鲜为人知(实际上这类家庭又是随处可见的）的故事，成为分析今日中国家庭、儿童、学校和社会教育过程中重要基础材料。