1898年，银矿工丹尼尔·普莱恩惟尤（丹尼尔·戴·刘易斯 Daniel Day Lewis 饰）因井下作业事故摔断了腿，但他因祸得福了解到秘密的石油信息。他利用领养的孤儿HW（狄龙·弗雷泽尔 Dillon Freasier 饰）欺骗乡民赢得了石油地盘，从此飞黄腾达。但是， 成为 石油大亨的他并不快乐，在一次意外事故中H.W不幸失聪， HW对他的怨恨与日俱增，他唯一认亲的兄弟居然也是冒牌货。传教士伊莱·桑迪不过是个借宗教蛊惑人心的小人。在一次采矿事故中，丹尼尔的工人不幸丧生。正当他希望伊莱（保罗·达诺 Paul Dano 饰）施以援手时，对方羞辱了他，两人从此开始明争暗斗……

相当出色的青少年寓言片，观赏性颇高。故事主角是一名小女孩，她正因为父亲不耐癌症折磨而自杀，感到闷闷不乐。此时，她发现邻居的大男孩相当神秘而孤僻，经常一个人呆在屋顶上。更令人惊异的是，大男孩说他会飞，女孩本来并不相信，但是当男孩牵着她的手在天空飞翔时，她不得不相信自己的眼睛。“天下间没有不可能的事，只要你有信心"。以此为主题的电影拍过很多，本片导演尼克．卡斯尔从写实片入手、以幻想片结束的手法是比较特别的。两名童星露西．狄更斯和杰．安德伍德都演得出色，成功地流露出一种亲切温馨的感觉。

今年的诺贝尔文学奖即将颁奖，所有人的目光都聚集在了那些有可能获奖的作家们身上。让大家都没有想到的是，最终的大奖落在了一个名叫安德鲁（保罗·纽曼 Paul Newman 饰）的年轻人头上，这个看上去就不太靠谱的作家似乎将更多的热情放在了女人和酒身上，而并没有放在文学创作上。安德森小姐（艾尔克·萨默 Elke Sommer 饰）成为了安德鲁的朱莉，将打理他在颁奖典礼上的一切大小事务，美丽的安德森很快就吸引了安德鲁的注意。和安德鲁一起领奖的还有一个名叫马克思（爱德华·罗宾逊 Edward G. Robinson 饰）的男人，他带着他可爱的侄女艾米丽（黛安·贝克 Diane Baker 饰）一同前往瑞典。

Deserves recognition as an interesting misunderstanding of the hallucination generation, 20 January 2007Author: TimothyFarrell from Worcester, MA"Wild in the Streets" comes from the same school of film making that spawned other attempts to connect to the counterculture such as "Skidoo" and "Candy". The difference between this and the aforementioned films is that "Wild in the Streets" is reasonably clever and well-made. It isn't sympathetic to the counterculture and will likely offend those with fond memories of the time. Surprisingly, it was a big hit when released and appealed to the youth whom it ridiculed so much. Unlike "The Trip" and "Psych-Out" (two other AIP films), its not an accurate representation of the movement at all. However it does work as social satire.The direction by Barry Shear is good and makes innovative use of split screen photography. Plus, he keeps everything moving at a quick pace. In its funny moments, the film works well. In its attempts at drama, its helplessly dated and just as funny as the humorous moments. Christopher Jones underplays his role and Shelly Winters overacts. Hal Holbrook offers the best performance and Diane Varsi achieves the right note of "grooviness". The script by Robert Thom has its moments, especially the ending (easily the most ingenious part of the film). "Wild in the Streets" isn't perfect, but deserves recognition as an interesting misunderstanding of the hallucination generation. Those into this kind of kitsch will enjoy it the most. I'd rather watch "The Trip" or "Psych-Out" however. (6/10)-from imdb