尼克(艾伦•艾克哈特 Aaron Eckhart 饰)是这个世界上最赚钱也最富有争议的行业――烟草业 的代言人。他每天不仅要像推销员一样用三寸不烂之舌去说服人们抽烟,还要不得不变着法子去对付禁烟团体、环保团体和科学团体的抗议,在政府和参议员中想尽办法为烟草业谋取最大利 益。 尼克还有两个知心朋友――为酒业代言的波利(玛丽亚•贝罗 Maria Bello 饰)和为军火业代言的鲍比(大卫•科恩查内 David Koechner 饰)。相同的行业性质让三人成为无话不谈的密友,经常在一起交流怎样对付环保团体等各种社团的抗议、如何在政府、参议员中周旋的诀窍。 在政治和商业互相交错的舞台上,他们上演了一出又一出好戏。
伽玛(凯文·狄龙 Kevin Dillon 饰)和文森特(艾德里安·格尼尔 Adrian Grenier 饰)是同父异母的兄弟,两人的性格截然不同,伽玛一直想要成名,并且为此费尽了心机,然而,渐渐在人生的道路上获得成功的却恰恰是淡泊名利的文森特,这让伽玛感到十分失落。
特托(杰瑞·费拉拉 Jerry Ferrara 饰)是文森特的管家,忠恳老实的他没有别的念头,只想一门心思的过好眼前的生活。艾里克(凯文·康诺利 Kevin Connolly 饰)是文森特最好的朋友,他时常会给文森特提出些一针见血的建议。阿里(杰里米·皮文 Jeremy Piven 饰)是文森特的经纪人,他常常和艾里克就某些事情上发生分歧。然而,聪明的阿里知道,想要保住自己的职位,他必须和艾里克搞好关系。
早上,虔诚的农场主陶尔(Max von Sydow 饰)夫妻做过了祷告,随后安排女儿卡琳骑马为教堂送一些蜡烛,卡琳穿上了新制的盛装,邀请家里的养女英格丽同行。有孕在身的英格丽性格放纵,并一直嫉妒卡琳的明媚人生,出行前,英格丽在食物中塞进了一只蛤蟆。行至一片森林前,英格丽让卡琳独自上路而自己尾随观察。林中的三个牧羊人看到孤身一人的卡琳顿起歹意,他们奸污后又打死了卡琳,掳走她的外套。傍晚,三名牧羊人投宿陶尔家中,向陶尔妻子兜售卡琳的衣物,惊慌的英格丽亦同时回到家中,她向陶尔忏悔了自己诅咒卡琳的罪行。陶尔沐浴更衣,以白桦树枝抽打自己后,决意用很双手为女儿报仇…… 本片获1961年奥斯卡最佳外语片奖,1960年戛纳电影节特别推荐奖。
一支由特种部队的退伍军人组成的神秘小组正在郊外的一间仓库接受雇主任务,他们个个身怀绝技,山姆(罗伯特·德尼罗 Robert De Niro 饰)是前中情局官员、文森特(让·雷诺 Jean Reno 饰)为前欧洲情报局官员、格雷戈(斯特兰·斯卡斯加德 Stellan Skarsgård 饰)则是德国电子专家,同时还有英国武器专家史宾斯(肖恩·宾 Sean Bean 饰)和司机拉里。小组受命要袭击一支全副武装的车队并劫下一只神秘的公文包。经过一系列激烈追逐和枪战,小组总算拿到了箱子,却不料格雷戈竟然背叛了组织,携公文包潜逃并试图将其兜售给俄罗斯。然而,在随后的追回箱子过程中,背叛似乎如诅咒般笼罩着小组,在一次次胆战心惊的追逐和辗转之下,成员们再也已无法分辨站在面前的是敌是友……
Adult brothers Mark and Colin Pollock still live with their parents Frank and Mavis Pollock in a small apartment in the projects of London's east end in what is a collective depressed and unhappy existence. The three men of the household are all on the dole, each doing little to find gainful employment. Between the brothers, Mark is the smart aleck, who calls his parents by their given names to irk them, and who hangs out with a bunch of hooligans as he refers to himself and his friends, such as a skinhead named Coxy. Although never medically diagnosed as such, Colin is seemingly emotionally slow. Colin likes to hang out with Mark and his friends in his want to be accepted, especially as Mark tells him that a neighborhood girl named Hayley is interested him. The family rarely socializes with Mavis' sister and brother-in-law, Barbara and John, who live a middle to upper middle class and seemingly perfect existence in the suburbs of Chigwell. Although not telling them to their face, John dislikes his relations by marriage, believing especially Mark to be brash and trashy. A unilateral act by Barbara leads to many issues within the extended family coming to the surface, most specifically the true happiness of the marriage between Barbara and John, and what Colin is truly looking for to be happy in life.