简介: After surviving an IED explosion in combat overseas, a young soldier with the Army Motorcycle Unit is medically discharged with a broken back and leg. Against all odds he trains to make an impossible comeback as a motocross racer in order to support his family.
主演:弗雷德里克·马奇,伊夫琳·维纳布尔,盖伊·斯坦丁,凯瑟琳·亚历山大,吉尔·帕特里克,凯瑟琳·霍华德,肯特·泰勒,亨利·崔佛斯,G·P·亨特利,莫洛尼·奥尔森,赫克托·萨尔诺,菲利普斯·斯莫利,Helen Westley,Anna De Linsky,Otto Hoffman,Frank Yaconelli
简介:Because I could not stop for Death, he kindly stopped for me; the carriage held but just ourselves and immortality” – Emily Dickinson If Death took a holiday, the guns would go silent in Iraq, the slaughter on our nation’s highways would cease, and the news media would be compelled to cover positive events in the humanities, arts, and sciences. Unfortunately, Death has not had a vacation in recorded history, but Mitchell Leisen’s 1934 fantasy, Death Takes a Holiday, allows us to consider the possibility. Co-written by Maxwell Anderson and Gladys Lehman and based on the play La Morte in Vacanza by Alberto Casella, Death Takes a Holiday stars Frederic March as the Grim Reaper who takes on human form in an attempt to discover why men fear him so much. Why he has waited 5,000 years to satisfy this curiosity is not explained. [Spoiler] After a brief tryout as a shadowy figure who scares the daylights out of those that cross his path, Death shows up at, of all places, an upscale party at an Italian villa, posing as the mysterious Prince Sirki. Only one person knows who he really is, the host Duke Lambert (Guy Standing), and he is sworn to secrecy. Sirki proceeds to fascinate the guests. Given to bursts of wit and poetry, he can just as quickly turn sullen and threatening, and some soon find out that it is better not to look too deeply into his eyes. During the three days in which the Prince is at the villa, however, people all over the world miraculously escape death and potential suicides are doomed to frustration. To see what’s behind all the conversation about love, the suave but naïve Prince Sirki falls for the irresistible Grazia (Evelyn Venable), the daughter of one of Duke’s friends. Grazia knows who Death is but does not fear him, much to the chagrin of her fiancé, Corrado (Kent Taylor) who has developed a strong disdain for Prince Charming. More sinister than Brad Pitt in the 1998 remake Meet Joe Black, March turns in a very convincing performance as the creepy yet strangely appealing guest. Although the ending is melodramatic, the emotions are very real and the suggestion that Death may in reality be a friend disguised as a foe is quite touching. (Howard Schumann, talkingpix.co.uk) In this wearisome and predictable plot line, Death falls in love and bores us to death talking about it. (Dennis Schwartz, homepages.sover.net) I've heard DRACULA was advertised with the tag line The Weirdest Love Story ever told! (this is probably a paraphrase), but at heart, I've never felt that you could honestly call that movie a love story. The tag line would be much more appropriate for this one, since it ultimately boils down to what amounts to a love story. This movie is very good indeed, particularly if you consider that it is built around a concept that could have easily been handled in a cute or facile manner. Instead, it is handled as seriously as possible, with some real thought put into how death would try to come to terms with a life and an outlook that was to that point totally unfamiliar to him; much of the credit does go to Fredric March in the title role. It's quite scary when it needs to be, particularly during the first twenty minutes. From then on, it deals with its themes with subtlety, a quiet wit, an enduring sadness, and an everpresent tension on how Death might react if crossed. It's not perfect; some of the dialogue is self-conscious and artificial, as if the writers knew they were dealing with weighty issues and were trying to be profound. But I am certainly glad they didn't try to turn it into a musical comedy of sorts. (Dave Sindelar, scifilm.org) See also the remake Death Takes A Holiday (1971)
简介: A widowed mother must help her teenage daughter escape a life of crime after she becomes embroiled in a dangerous scheme to steal luxury cars for her high school teacher.
简介:Ray is in the boutique simulated abduction business. It's an understandably threadbare market, so he jumps at the chance when a mysterious call contracts him for a weekend kidnapping with a handsome payday at the end. But the job isn't all that it seems.
简介:When cousins Ted (Taylor Nichols)and Fred Boynton (Chris Eigeman) hit Barcelona, the sexiest city in the world, the possibilities – and the beautiful girls – are endless. But without warning, international intrigue interrupts the pair's romantic pursuits... and what follows is a dangerously sexy comedy that explores life, liberty, and the labours of love.
简介:52岁的凯撒(雷克斯•哈里森 Rex Harrison 饰)以罗马执行官的身份驾临埃及,为了解决王室姐弟争位的事端。皇姐克里奥佩特拉(伊丽莎白•泰勒 Elizabeth Taylor 饰)美艳绝伦,凭借自身的魅力和政治手腕,迅速让凯撒拜倒在她的石榴裙下,不但获得了对埃及的统治权,而且还以美貌征服了罗马。 克氏与凯撒完婚后,为其产下一子,深得凯撒喜欢,被立为继承人。但此事引起了凯撒手下大将安东尼(理查德•伯顿 Richard Burton 饰)与屋大维(罗迪•麦克道尔 Roddy McDowall 饰)的不满。在凯撒遇刺驾崩之后,安东尼接掌了罗马的统治权,但他同样无法抵挡克氏的绝世美貌。当安东尼彻底沉溺于暴风雨般爱情的时候,身在罗马的屋大维已经吹响了夺权的号角……
简介:杰克(柯林·法瑞尔 Colin Farrell 饰)和卡雅(朱迪·特纳-史密斯 Jodie Turner-Smith 饰)收养了名叫美香的华裔小姑娘,为了美香能够接触属于自己种族的文化,杰克购买了仿生机器人杨(贾斯汀·闵 Justin H. Min 饰)。之后,杨成了美香最好也是最信赖的朋友,同时也成为了这个家庭里不可或缺的一份子。 随着时间的推移,米卡渐渐长大,而杨也因为零件老化等问题,机能发生了故障。杰克想要找人修好杨,但因为杨是一款“二手”的机器人,所以自然没有任何的售后保障。杰克通过特殊的手段获得了记录了杨自出厂以来全部记忆的内存条,在播放这些画面的过程中,杰克发现了杨的一些不为人知的记忆。