简介:George Peppard plays a hard-driven industrialist more than a little reminiscent of Howard Hughes.While he builds airplanes, directs movies and breaks hearts, his friends and lovers try to reach his human side, and find that it's an uphill battle.The film's title is a metaphor for self-promoting tycoons who perform quick financial takeovers, impose dictatorial controls for short-term profits, then move on to greener pastures.The Carpetbaggers is the kind of trashy classic most people were too embarrassed to admit they enjoyed back in the early 60s.But this Harold Robbins adaptation is so cheerfully vulgar, it's hard not to have a good time - especially given the thinly veiled portrait of Howard Hughes at its center. George Peppard plays the heel-hero, who founds an airline company in the 1920s and buys a movie studio in the 1930s, crushing friends and mistresses along the way.The high cheese factor is aided by the good-time cast: Carroll Baker as Peppard's hot stepmom, Bob Cummings (quite funny) as a cynical agent, and Elizabeth Ashley, who married Peppard, in her debut -uncharacteristically, as a good girl.One sad note is Alan Ladd, looking and sounding very end-of-the-line in his final role, as a man's man cowboy star.Elmer Bernstein's swaggering score helps goose the action along.
简介:THE BIG CHILL meets THE GRADUATE. What could have been? What might have been? Reunions can be exciting, frustrating, exhilarating, nostalgic, one life given over to practicality while another chases lost dreams. Set against the majestic landscape of the desert, three estranged friends and former band mates "celebrate" turning 30, carrying their hopes, unresolved wounds and inte...
简介:并不富裕的伊莱扎(乌玛•瑟曼 Uma Thurman 饰)与丈夫以及两个年幼的孩子挤在曼哈顿的一间小小的公寓里。虽然伊莱扎一直都想成为一名专业的作家,但是无奈两个孩子年幼,而丈夫又要上班,所以她只能当起了全职妈妈,写作也只能在料理家务的间隙进行。这天是女儿卡拉拉六岁的生日, 伊莱扎一早便开始为生日会采购。可是谁能料到这样重要的一天竟然状况百出。当伊莱扎为了女儿的生日会四处奔波之际,她不禁为自己“无助”又“凄惨”的母亲生涯感到悲哀。可是当晚上看到女儿快乐的样子,而丈夫终于懂得体贴自己,伊莱扎终于感受到了作为一个母亲不一样的感受。
简介:一直以来,汤姆(迈克尔·道格拉斯 Michael Douglas 饰)都勤勤恳恳的在岗位上工作着,他的目的没有别的,就是希望能够升职成为副总裁。就在汤姆的目标就要达成之时,凭空杀出的美女美迪(黛咪·摩尔 Demi Moore 饰)让他的梦想成为了泡影,这个女人不仅夺走了副总裁的职位,还成为了汤姆的上司。然而,更让汤姆感到尴尬的是,这个美迪不是别人,正是自己的旧情人。美迪似乎对汤姆旧情难忘,否则也不会把他叫到办公室里对他动手动脚,没想到,这一桃色事件传到老板的耳中却完全变了模样,心怀不轨的美迪竟然状告汤姆对她进行性骚扰。汤姆识破了美迪的阴谋,为了保全自己的清白和工作,他必须和这个“女魔头”抗争到底。
简介:The dramatic, true story of C.S. Lewis' journey from committed atheist to reluctant believer begins with his turbulent childhood. After losing his mother to cancer and becoming estranged from his father, a young C.S. Lewis deems existence bleak and unfortunate. His tutelage under atheist William T. Kirkpatrick and his harrowing experiences in The Great War solidify his case for materialism until he befriends J.R.R. Tolkien and Hugo Dyson. His fellow intellectuals-all Christians-challenge him to consider the logical, mythological, and literary cases for Christianity, and Lewis must face a life-altering choice: to hold fast to materialism or to give his life to Jesus Christ.
简介:2009年3个年轻人在黄石国家公园的遥远区域被杀害。仅仅几小时后,Dwayne Nelson走到一个护林站,声称自己是罪犯。尽管他详尽的陈述,Nelson因为美国宪法的漏洞被无罪释放。记实小说作者Julian T. Pinder为了追求犯罪真相旅游到黄石公园,而真相会震动整个国家。美国宪法怎么会让一个罪犯脱身?在完美罪行中唯一一个比愚蠢的暴力行为更令人震撼的是紧随的离奇的事件 。
简介:A group of Indian Forest Service officers, NGO workers, police constables and Good Samaritans risk their lives trying to track down the biggest elephant ivory poachers in the history of India and bring them to justice.
简介:安娜(明妮·德里弗 Minnie Driver 饰)是一名单身母亲,和儿子杰西(鲍比·科尔曼 Bobby Coleman 饰)过着相依为命的生活。一个女人独自抚养孩子是何等的不易,但安娜从来就没有放弃过希望,而是通过努力的工作来为杰西铺设一个相对来说比较美好的未来。索尔(杰瑞米·雷纳 Jeremy Renner 饰)是一个赌鬼,因为欠下了累累赌债而身陷巨大的麻烦之中。在一场意外里,索尔遇见了安娜和杰西,这意外的相遇令安娜失去了一切,也彻底的毁掉了索尔本就摇摇欲坠的人生。因为过失杀人罪,索尔被关进了监狱,一晃眼多年过去,当安娜再度见到这个男人时,内心的痛苦和黑暗卷土重来。