A comic celebration of dreamers and their dreams, LIVING IN OBLIVION is the second film written and directed by Tom DiCillo. With a tone that teeters somewhere between Kafka and the Marx Brothers, it chronicles the hilarious misadventures of a group of people who have joined together to accomplish one of the most difficult goals imaginable - the making of a low-budget independent film. With an innovative and surprising structure that shifts fluidly between the movie being made and those making it, the film offers a rare and accurate -- if comically heightened -- look behind-the-scenes, with the people who make the scenes. How they make them -- and the fact that they manage to make them at all -- is what LIVING IN OBLIVION is all about.
Starring Steve Buscemi as director Nick Reve, LIVING IN OBLIVION highlights a day on the set of Nick's film where everything that could possibly go wrong, actually does. Struggling against ever-escalating odds to maintain his integrity and his sanity, Nick is both helped and hindered by his bumbling, if well-intentioned crew, headed by his cinematographer Wolf (Dermot Mulroney), a cameraman whose leather gear suggests that he is more inspired by Billy Idol than Sven Nykvist; a leading lady, Nicole (Catherine Keener), a talented but neurotic actress who is involved in a romance and a rivalry with her leading man, Chad Palomino (James Le Gros); an iron-willed assistant director, Wanda (Danielle Von Zerneck); and, for the first time ever on-screen, a Gaffer.
A martial arts fighter, haunted by his past, takes a job as a dock worker in a small village. His vow never to fight again is tested by the cruel owner of the pier.
故事发生在二战时期的一个美国沿海小镇,八岁小男孩Pepper(雅各布·萨尔瓦提 Jakob Salvati 饰)天生矮小瘦弱,为此没少受同龄人欺负,还被取绰号为“小男孩”(little boy)。他最好的朋友兼搭档,就是自己高大魁梧的父亲詹姆斯(迈克尔·拉帕波特 Michael Rapaport 饰)。在父亲的教导陪伴下,Pepper渡过了一段美好的时光。直到父亲应召入伍,投入到第二次世界大战的战场中去。
就在Pepper期待父亲回家时,噩耗传来,他的父亲在菲律宾被日军虏为战俘,生死未卜。而此同时,Pepper和他哥哥London(大卫·亨瑞 David Henrie 饰)将战争仇恨发泄在镇上的一个日本人桥本身上,为此兄弟俩都接受了相应的惩罚。神父为了教育Pepper,将一个“古老的清单”交给他,只要他把清单上的任务都完成,他就能拥有可以移动大山的信...
故事发生在1971年的北爱尔兰,新教徒和天主教徒之间的矛盾不断激化,战争一触即发,情势十分危急。加里(杰克·奥康奈尔 Jack O'Connell 饰)是一名年轻的英国士兵,上司将他派遣至贝尔法斯特,这里是内战的主要战场,充满了四飞的流弹,愤怒的人群和心怀鬼胎的投机分子。
一场冲突之中,加里和同伴飞身追捕小偷,然而,当加里回过神来之时,发现混乱的街头只剩下自己独自一人,更糟糕的是,他所身处的,恰恰是敌方阵营,这也就意味着,他身边出现的每一个人,都有可能想要取自己的性命。为了回到驻扎地,加里开始了漫长的跋涉,一路上等待着他的,是陌生复杂的环境,和穷凶极恶的亡命之徒。
On leaving work, while Darío Manzano is taking drugs in the car, he receives an unexpected visit from Ginés Chega. At the same time that he points a gun at Darío´s face, he asks about his friend Abraham "El Gitano", whom he accuses of having stolen a lot of money.
Manzano, without knowing what happened, cannot answer anything about it, and Ginés angrily gives Darío a head butt on the nose while threatening him and leaves.
Darío with a broken nose, starts looking for his friend. When he finally finds him, very angry, he reproaches Abraham for stealing from Los Chega, very dangerous people. Trying to find a solution, Darío decides to take Abraham to France so that they will not find him.
That night, during the car journey, Darío suffers a stroke that will cause him to lose control, leaving the road and causing the death of Abraham.
After a few months, the advances in Darío's rehabilitation begin to show results. But everything begins to go wrong due to the accumulation of different events that will put Darío and his family in trouble: defaults with the bank, tensions between them and the imminent sentence of the trial for the accident. To this is added, the pressure from Los Chega to Darío to recover his lost money, since the night of the robbery, Abraham was in the car with Manzano when he suffered the accident.
As a consequence of this, Manzano will live a few hours prior to his entry into prison frantic and full of danger, where he will try to defend, TO THE TEETH OF A DOG, his family.
阿巴贡(路易·德·菲耐斯 Louis de Funès 饰)是个人尽皆知的吝啬鬼,早年丧妻的他带着女儿艾莉丝(Claire Dupray 饰)和儿子克莱昂特(皮埃尔·奥赛达特 Pierre Aussedat 饰)过着平静的生活。靠放高利贷为生的阿巴贡将辛苦赚来的金币埋在了花园里,他将自家花园的地下视为最保险和最安全的所在。 阿巴贡一直在追求一个名叫玛丽安娜(Madeleine Barbulée 饰)的年轻姑娘,没想到玛丽安娜却和克莱昂特两情相悦,两人在花园里幽会的时候被阿巴贡逮了个正着,这让阿巴贡十分气恼。祸不单行,阿巴贡埋在地下的金币失窃了,克莱昂特向父亲承诺他将查出盗窃金币的罪魁祸首,但作为报酬,他必须祝福他与玛丽安娜的爱情。