本片根据美国畅销作家丹?布朗的同名小说改编。欧洲核子中心的科学家维多利亚?维特勒（阿耶莱特?祖瑞尔 Ayelet Zurer 饰）与父亲在高速粒子对撞机实验中收集到了反物质，却发现父亲遇害，尸体胸口被烙“光照派”符号，高爆炸性的反物质被偷走，出现在正待选新教皇的罗马梵蒂冈，威胁天主教廷及整个罗马的安危。于此同时，四位主要教皇候选人的红衣主教神秘失踪。在教皇内侍（伊万?麦克格雷格 Ewan McGregor 饰）的授意下，哈佛大学的符号学专家罗伯特?兰登教授和维多利亚都被请到梵蒂冈协助罗马警察开展搜寻行动。兰登说服罗马总探员奥利维迪（皮耶法兰西斯柯?法维诺Pierfrancesco Favino 饰）依照“土、气、火、水”的提示在罗马的名胜教堂间与“光照派”展开了时间战……

Passages from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake 1965 16mm film 90minsThis was the first attempt to cinematize the works of Irish author James Joyce. Based more on a stage adaptation by Mary Manning than the Joyce novel itself, the film concentrates on Dublin pubkeeper Finnegan (Martin J. Kelly), who while in the throes of inebriation has a vision of his own death. As the bemused Finnegan lies in his coffin, his friends gather for his wake. The "corpse" tries to cut through the keening and platitudes by probing the innermost thoughts of those closest to him. The surprising aspect of this film is that so much of its difficult text works on screen--a tribute to the loving care of scripter/director/ editor Mary Ellen Bute, who, while preparing this film spent her waking hours picking the brains and burrowing through the resource materials of the James Joyce Society.Although director Mary Ellen Bute’s highly regarded Finnegans Wake (aka Passages from Finnegans Wake) is a unique film that is likely to baffle anyone unfamiliar with James Joyce, it cannot be dismissed merely as a literary exercise. The director was right in claiming that her film was “not a translation of the book but a reaction to it”. It is actually based on a stage play by Mary Manning, who was also responsible for the screenplay. Joyce’s elliptical rhetoric and intricate punning, which might be considered a formidable barrier to the filming of this most opaque of his works, proved to be an attraction to Bute, whose enthusiasm for the ‘visual’ and ‘kinetic’ quality of his language led her to the surprising but well-judged move of running subtitles from the original text to support the dialogue.Visual music pioneer Mary Ellen Bute's final film was also her first feature film. James Joyce's classic story of Irish tavern-keeper who dreams of attending his own wake is brought to the screen with a sparkling energy which highlights its maker's career-long exploration of kinetic abstract animation. Perhaps best described as a 'film poem,' Passages from Finnegans Wake was the first attempt to 'cinematize' the works of James Joyce, featuring the author's highly original language spoken by characters and presented as text on screen.

二流棒球运动员蒙弟，当他最穷困潦倒时，舅父的三亿美元遗产从天而降，只要他在一个月内先将三千万美元花掉就可继承，于是种种五花八门的花钱方法陆续粉墨登场。本片的故事犹如一个现代童话，对现代人的金钱观念进行了嘲讽，其中最有意思的一段，是蒙弟一掷千金参加纽约州长竟选，但竟选标语却是“谁也不要选"，对金钱贿赂选举的丑恶现象讽刺鞭挞得淋漓尽致。

父母离异，家庭重组，亲情缺失。小女孩参宿（王亭文 配音）怯怯懦懦，脸上鲜有笑容。父亲（滕奎兴 配音）现在一心扑在新的妻子和出生不久的小弟弟身上，对她充满敷衍。远在他乡的母亲似乎开启了新的生活，拒绝对这个女儿施以哪怕一丁点的爱的恩惠。阴晦的日子里，参宿随同家人登上了六天七夜的海上游轮。狂风暴雨，怒浪滔天，女孩悲伤的心情被不断放大。当那团有如乱麻一般的龙卷风出现在海面时，母亲的歌声从远处传来，而参宿也消失在无尽的夜色之中。当她再度醒来时，发现自己身处海底的某个奇怪地方，光怪陆离的深海大饭店内，奇形怪状的食客们一边抱怨一边大快朵颐。而唯利是图的老板南河（苏鑫 配音）则自顾自做着他引以为豪的所谓创新菜。参宿的到来，给南河带来了无穷的混乱与麻烦……