此片根据詹姆斯·艾罗瑞(James Ellroy)的小说改编，欧美描写了1950年代，欧美警界腐败、犯罪纵横的洛杉矶。杰克·文森（凯文·斯派西 饰）是警界名人，常常出现在电视媒体中，与《嘘嘘报》的八卦记者狼狈为奸，靠制造和揭发明星的桃色新闻，赚取外快。艾德·艾斯力（盖·皮尔斯 饰 ）子承父业进入警局，野心勃勃，做事严谨，因为出卖同事而升职，受到大家的排挤；巴德·怀特（罗素·克劳 饰） 铁面无私，但是个性冲动，容易遭人利用。一桩疑似抢劫的餐厅命案将这三个人联系起来。艾德·艾斯力找到了三个黑人嫌疑犯，并被判死刑结案，还因此收到上级嘉奖，但是他却在进一步的调查中发现案子并没有那么简单，他说服了杰克·文森和他一起继续追查；巴德·怀特对餐厅命案一直心存怀疑，他找到的线索也显示，案子根本没有想象中那么简单。三个人迅速被卷入一个色情、毒品、谋杀、背叛、贪污、阴谋交织的网中，惊人的内幕......
回复 :初出茅庐的鲁迪·贝勒（马特·达蒙 Matt Damon饰）是刚踏进律师界的新手。一腔热血的鲁迪接手的第一个案子是一宗涉及医疗保险赔偿的诉讼。无助的母亲，生命垂危的儿子，拒绝支付医疗费的保险公司，不择手段的辩护律师，一切都跟当初设想的大相径庭。面对种种举步维艰的行业阴暗面和陷于困境的弱势群体，鲁迪至始至终都没有放弃他的正义之心。影片的另一条主线还有一位遭受家庭暴力的受虐少妇。影片用写实的手法，向我们描绘了一场捍卫正义的道德之战。本片根据约翰·格里沙姆的同名小说改编。
回复 :It has been said that most great twentieth century novels include scenes in a hotel, a symptom of the vast uprooting that has occurred in the last century: James Ivory begins Quartet with a montage of the hotels of Montparnasse, a quiet prelude before our introduction to the violently lost souls who inhabit them.Adapted from the 1928 autobiographical novel by Jean Rhys, Quartet is the story of a love quadrangle between a complicated young West Indian woman named Marya (played by Isabelle Adjani), her husband Stefan (Anthony Higgins), a manipulative English art patron named Heidler (Alan Bates), and his painter wife Lois (Maggie Smith). The film is set in the Golden Age of Paris, Hemingway's "moveable feast" of cafe culture and extravagant nightlife, glitter and literati: yet underneath is the outline of something sinister beneath the polished brasses and brasseries.When Marya's husband is put in a Paris prison on charges of selling stolen art works, she is left indigent and is taken in by Heidler and his wife: the predatory Englishman (whose character Rhys bases on the novelist Ford Madox Ford) is quick to take advantage of the new living arrangement, and Marya finds herself in a stranglehold between husband and wife. Lovers alternately gravitate toward and are repelled by each other, now professing their love, now confessing their brutal indifference -- all the while keeping up appearances. The film explores the vast territory between the "nice" and the "good," between outward refinement and inner darkness: after one violent episode, Lois asks Marya not to speak of it to the Paris crowd. "Is that all you're worried about?" demands an outraged Marya. "Yes," Lois replies with icy candor, "as a matter of fact."Adjani won the Best Actress award at Cannes for her performances in Quartet: her Marya is a volatile compound of French schoolgirl and scorned mistress, veering between tremulous joy and hysterical outburst. Smith shines in one of her most memorable roles: she imbues Lois with a Katherine-of-Aragon impotent rage, as humiliated as she is powerless in the face of her husband's choices. Her interactions with Bates are scenes from a marriage that has moved from disillusionment to pale acceptance.Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and James Ivory's screenplay uses Rhys's novel as a foundation from which it constructs a world that is both true to the novel and distinctive in its own right, painting a society that has lost its inhibitions and inadvertently lost its soul. We are taken to mirrored cafes, then move through the looking glass: Marya, in one scene, is offered a job as a model and then finds herself in a sadomasochistic pornographer's studio. The film, as photographed by Pierre Lhomme, creates thoroughly cinematic moments that Rhy's novel could not have attempted: in one of the Ivory's most memorable scenes, a black American chanteuse (extraordinarily played by Armelia McQueen) entertains Parisian patrons with a big and brassy jazz song, neither subtle nor elegant. Ivory keeps the camera on the singer's act: there is something in her unguarded smile that makes the danger beneath Montparnasse manners seem more acute.
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回复 :严格的军校训练，是否能造就一名能上越南战场的斗士？杰夫奈特（迈克尔·杜迪考夫 饰）是一名刚从西点军校毕业的年轻中尉，被派往越南一个小型军事基地驻守，基地中的其它士兵都是身经百战的沙场老将，年轻的杰夫经常是他们取笑的对象。还好，在长官麦纳玛拉（罗伯特·F·莱昂斯 饰）的指导下，他逐渐抓到窍门，并有能力带领士兵们在丛林中作例行的巡逻。一日，他得知越共准备攻击他们的基地与附近的村落，于是，杰夫决定在敌人未行动前先发制人。没想到，因为通讯器材故障，使得他们的袭击失败。身处越南丛林的杰夫，是否能发挥斗士精神，突破重围、全身而退呢？
