A tale of love and violence when a man on his emotional last legs finds a savior seductively dancing in a run-down strip club. And a life most certainly headed off a cliff suddenly becomes redirected - as EVERYTHING is now worth dying for.
菲力(杰克·莱蒙 Jack Lemmon 饰)的个性古板众所周知,这一特点随着他年龄的增大显得越来越明显。生活里,菲力是一个非常挑剔的刺头,太多的事情让他觉得不满,而他正是那种觉得不爽就一定会说出来的人。奥斯卡(沃尔特·马修 Walter Matthau 饰)曾是一名体育播报员,外表邋邋遢遢的他在生活里也得过且过不拘小节。
两位老友因为他们迥异的性格在相处的过程中产生了诸多的矛盾,终于,在一次激烈的争吵后,他们决定绝交。然而命运是奇妙的,虽然两个老头水火不容,但他们的孩子却即将携手步入婚礼的殿堂。这也就意味着,菲力和奥斯卡必须再度共处一室,出席孩子们的婚礼。
This film marks the directorial debut of Robert Benayoun. An artist (Richard Leduc) attending a party smokes some dope and develops the ability to see into the future and the past. He returns to his apartment where he sees the vision of a woman who had lived there 30 years ago. A friend tries to convince him it is his heightened sensitively as an artist that allows for the newfound abilities, but he soon has psychedelic hallucinations and his abilities increase with time. Stop-motion photography is effectively used in his sequence of visual experiences where the people exist but not the city in this metaphysical story.
Young couple Madeleine and Neil are coaxed by acquaintance Monsieur Beaumont to get married on his Haitian plantation. Beaumont's motives are purely selfish as he makes every attempt to convince the beautiful young girl to run away with him. For help Beaumont turns to the devious Legendre, a man who runs his mill by mind controlling people he has turned into zombies. After Beaumont uses Legendre's zombie potion on Madeleine, he is dissatisfied with her emotionless being and wants her to be changed back. Legendre has no intention of doing this and he drugs Beaumont as well to add to his zombie collection. Meanwhile, grieving 'widower' Neil is convinced by a local priest that Madeleine may still be alive and he seeks her out.
Faris, who had just returned from his duty as a soldier. Instead of being warm, his return was actually greeted with a request for divorce from his wife, Ratna.