19世纪的爱尔兰，春暖英俊健硕的佃户青年约瑟·多尼利（汤姆·克鲁斯 Tom Cruise 饰）遭遇丧父之痛。为给父亲报仇，春暖这个莽撞的青年决心杀死地主丹尼尔·克里斯迪（Robert Prosky 饰）。阴差阳错让他功败垂成，不过却因此邂逅了地主美丽的女儿夏莲（妮可·基德曼 Nicole Kidman 饰）。与保守的父母不同，个性张扬却又娇贵单纯的夏莲一心离开故土，到外面闯荡天地。偶然机缘，夏莲和约瑟结伴而逃，登上了开往美国的轮船。但是他们的旅途从一开始便充满了不幸，夏莲的家当被人或骗或抢，口袋空空。两人暂住波士顿大亨凯利管辖的破旧公寓里，娇傲的夏莲放下身段进工厂打工，而健壮的约瑟则靠打拳赚取营生。在此过程中，他们经历了人生的大起大落，彼此的心间也渐渐埋下爱情的种子……
回复 :影片主角是一个78岁的英国著名作家，他身患重病却仍然酗酒成性，口不择言。夜晚不时陷于噩梦的缠绕中，令他想入非非，一边琢磨着他最后一部作品的情节构思，一边回忆着他的往事。于是，噩梦、他的想象加上往事的回忆相互混淆在一起，共同构成了他作品的故事框架。影片将文学创作的过程跟幻想、愤怒等融为一体，制造了一个精致的弗洛伊德哑谜。这是雷奈的第一部用英语拍摄的影片。剧本比较拗口罗嗦，有较重的文学味，影片被认为是雷奈的杰作，博加德的演出尤为精湛，但一般观众可能会觉得单调乏味。Clive Langham (Sir John Gielgud) spends one tormenting night in his bed suffering from health problems and thinking up a story based on his relatives. He is a bitter man and he shows, through flashbacks, how spiteful, conniving and treacherous his family is. But is this how they really are or is it his own vindictive slant on things?
回复 :农村姑娘鲁雪枝远离家乡，投奔到大 兴安岭的姐姐家落户。她经过刻苦学 习，于林业中学毕业后，即开始了伐 木工的生涯。茫茫林海，野兽出没， 伐木劳动十分艰苦。但倔犟的鲁雪枝 却爱上了这里的—切，并被选为青年 突击手。在劳动中，雪枝与纯朴的伐 木工房根柱相爱，但姐夫陆民子却极 力反对，横加阻拦。姐夫想把她嫁给 一个有权势的民政干部，雪枝坚决不 从。从此，雪枝遇到工作不给转正， 结婚不开证明等种种刁难。房根柱母 子为求完婚，试图用钱物向陆民子求 情，遭到拒绝。雪枝忿然搬出姐姐家 ，她对根柱的懦弱十分失望，决心以 死相抗，跳河自尽。幸被林业局团委 书记江有林发现救起。当江有林了解 情况后，去找陆民子评理，却遭到一 些人的嘲弄和非难。陆民子更是满口 胡言，诽谤雪枝，令雪枝无地自容。 姐夫的跋扈和未婚夫的软弱，使雪枝 感到走投无路，决定返回老家。江有 林向她阐述人生的意义， 激励她的 斗志，同时又坚持不懈地为鲁雪枝争 取婚姻自由而四处奔波直至胜利。结 婚前夕，鲁雪枝感到自己与根柱在精 神上存在着距离。她很矛盾，痛苦， 但仍决定以身相许。忠厚的根柱也深 感自己的怯懦，不愿累及雪枝，终于 不告而别，参加了扑灭山火的行列。
回复 :Griff Bonnell and his brothers Wes and Chico arrive in an Arizona town. He is a reformed gunslinger, now working for the Attorney General's office, looking to arrest Howard Swain for mail robbery.Swain is one of landowner Jessica Drummond’s 40 hired guns. She runs the territory with an iron fist, permitting the town to be terrorized and trashed by her brother, Brockie Drummond, and his boys. Brockie is an arrogant drunk and bully, but he goes too far by shooting Marshal Chisolm in cold blood. Griff intervenes and knocks out Brockie with his pistol.Wes falls in love with Louvenie Spanger, so he decides to settle down and become the town's sheriff. Griff becomes romantically involved with Jessica after she is dragged by a horse during a cyclone.Two of her guns, Logan and Savage, attempt an ambush of Griff in an alley. He is saved by youngest brother Chico, who was supposed to be leaving for California for a new life on a farm. Chico's shot kills Savage, after which Jessica's brother and hired guns try to turn the town against the Bonnell brothers.On his wedding day, Wes is gunned down. Brockie is jailed for the murder. He tries to escape by using his sister as a shield, daring Griff to shoot, and is shocked when Griff does exactly that. Griff's expertly placed bullet merely wounds Jessica, and the cowardly Brockie then becomes the first man Griff has had to kill in 10 years.Chico remains behind to take the sheriff's job. Griff rides out, certain that Jessica hates him for killing her brother, but she runs after his buckboard and together they ride off.
