Newlyweds move into their dream home where they discover a collection of 100-year-old letters from a young woman who committed suicide after being abandoned by the owner of the home.
Set at the turn of the century, the story concerns a Polish poet living in Cracow who has decided to marry a peasant girl. The wedding is attended by a heterogenous group of people from all strata of Polish society, who dance, get drunk and lament Poland's 100-year-long division of Poland under Russia, Prussia, and Austria. The bridegroom, a painter friend, and a journalist each in turn is confronted with spectres of Polish past. In the end a call to arms is called but turns out to be a hoax.
Broke Edith murders and assumes the identity of her recently widowed, well-to-do twin sister Margaret, who had married Edith's former flame 20 years before. Can she fool the servants and the authorities and keep her new-found wealth
A pilots pregnant wife is killed by a band of thugs who break into their home. The gang is caught and sent off to prison. Wanting to see that "justice" is done the pilot stages his own death and then gets himself arrested so he can hunt the killers in the prisons into which they have been sent.
To be honest the story is a bit clichéd with the plot taking some obvious paths o...
迈克尔(斯蒂芬·罗伯特森 Steven Robertson 饰)在很小的时候就因为患上了小儿麻痹症而全身瘫痪,生活不能自己的他居住在专门收容残障人士的康复中心里,虽然生活起居都有人照顾,但没有人能够理解迈克尔抽象的语言,迈克尔一直生活在孤独之中。 一天,一位名叫罗伊(詹姆斯·麦卡沃伊 James McAvoy 饰)的病友走进了迈克尔的生活,罗伊同样也是全身瘫痪,仅有右手可以活动。然而,和其他的病人不同,罗伊思维敏捷,开朗乐观,更神奇的是,他似乎可以理解迈克尔想要表达的语言。罗伊的出现给迈克尔灰暗的生活带来了一丝色彩,让他重新对人生产生了希望。
荒凉的澳大利亚原野,一条笔直漫长的空旷公路,一对关系疏离的父子在路上。父亲凯文(雨果·维文 Hugo Weaving饰),一位暴戾而又邋遢的中年男人带着他十岁大的儿子楚克(汤姆·拉塞尔 Tom Russell饰)踏上了这条亡命之旅。为了逃避一起犯罪事件,凯文铤而走险地选择了负罪潜逃。置身澳大利亚寂寥荒芜的沙漠与荒原,两父子不仅要为了生存而与一切未知因素进行抗衡和斗争,更要面对时而紧密时而对立的父子关系。面临着生死攸关的两难抉择,他们正走向未知的明天。 由葛兰迪·伊文执导的影片《最后的旅程》改编自澳洲文学大奖小说。