ynopsis from Time Out Film Guide Between the seemingly idyllic opening and closing scenes depicting a rural community, first at church, then at the village festival, Fleischmann attacks that community's prejudices and ignorance without remorse. His very precisely observed portrait of Bavarian life begins with little more than a display of the villagers' constant ribbing, bawdy humour, continuous gossip, and more than a hint of their slow-wittedness. With the return of a young man, their idle malice and childish clowning, always on the edge of unpleasantness, receive some focus quite without foundation, the lad is victimised as a homosexual. The crippling conformity of their ingrained conservatism leads the villagers to reject anything 'different' a young widow is ostracised, more for her crippled lover and idiot son than her morals; a teacher is frozen out because she's educated; the casual destruction of the young 'homosexual' is given no more thought than the cutting up of a pig. Not Germany in the '30s but the '70s; nevertheless the political parallels are clear. An impressive film.
巴克(约翰·坎迪 John Candy 饰)是一名快乐的单身汉,既然一个人生活,那么在日常中,他难免会大大咧咧笨手笨脚些。本以为一个人的生活会一直持续下去,谁知道某一日,哥哥鲍勃(加勒特·布朗 Garrett M. Brown 饰)和嫂子辛迪(Elaine Bromka 饰)邀请他到他们家做客,并且将他们的三个孩子托付给了巴克照料。 很快,巴克乐呵呵的个性便得到了年幼的梅兹(盖比·霍夫曼 Gaby Hoffmann 饰)和迈尔斯(麦考利·卡尔金 Macaulay Culkin 饰)的喜爱,只有正处于叛逆期的提亚(珍·路易莎·凯利 Jean Louisa Kelly 饰)依然对他十分的戒备和抗拒。但是没有关系,真诚总是动人的,随着时间的推移,巴克和三个孩子之间产生了真挚的感情。
After the relatively low box office takings of 'Intolerance', D. W. Griffith would revisit his epic film three years later by releasing two of the film's interlocking stories as standalone features, with some new additional footage. The first of the two was 'The Fall of Babylon', which depicts the conflict between Prince Belshazzar of Babylon and Cyrus the Great of Persia.
1943年3月,巴顿(乔治·C·斯科特 George C. Scott 饰)率美军在法属摩洛哥登陆后临危受命,担任美军在北非的第二军团长,性格强势、钟情古典文化又熟稔战史相信灵魂转世的巴顿很快用铁血律令扭转了北非部队的散漫风格,连番激战后与蒙哥马利统率的英军合力将“沙漠之狐”隆美尔赶出了北非。随后升任第7集团军司令的巴顿筹划占领西西里,战斗中巴顿抢在蒙哥马利之前连下军事重镇,立下赫赫战功的同时饱受非议,部下指责他用士兵的生命换取荣耀,在成功占领西西里后,巴顿因严厉训斥一位士兵遭到媒体的谴责,铁血将军只得公开道歉……然而长于战争的巴顿又迎来了新的重任……