《从今以后》被选为2010年年纽约国际电影节的闭幕电影。
故事的地点分别发生在美国、英国和法国。
美国,蓝领乔治(马特·达蒙 Matt Damon 饰)可以和死人说话。他的超能力,一度让他成为全美宠儿。精明的哥哥准备把他打造为全方位娱乐红人。然而他放弃了一切在建筑工地上 工作。
法国,记者玛丽(西西·迪·法兰丝 Cécile De France 饰)是2004年印度洋海啸中的生还者。那次经历之后,她似乎拥有了通灵能力。
英国,学生马库斯刚失去了双胞胎兄弟杰森,他正在绝望地想要寻找答案。
与死亡擦肩的神秘、对未知世界的迷茫、痛失至亲的悲伤、寻找答案的迫切,在冥冥中将这三个本来毫无关系的人连在了一起,进而颠覆了他们未来的一切……
在哈里(小罗伯特·唐尼 Robert Downey Jr.饰)的旁白中,这个带着黑色幽默的故事开始了。他本来是一个衰运连连的惯偷,因为一次躲避警察追捕的缘故,闯入了好莱坞电影的选秀片场。可谓歪打正着,导演竟然一下子就看上了哈里,让他前往洛杉矶接受角色培训。
哈里就这样莫名其妙地成为了“准演员”,他将会出演一名神探。剧组专门安排哈里到真正的侦探佩里(瓦尔·基尔默 Val Kilmer饰)身边,体验真实的侦探生活。一桩命案等待着他们的调查,而死者是一名女士。这种惊险的生活真让哈里受尽了苦头,因为冷酷的佩里可不是一个容易应付的搭档。
而同时,哈里在派对上重遇了年少时的梦中情人哈莫妮(米歇尔·莫娜汉 Michelle Monaghan饰)。她已经在好莱坞摸爬滚打一番,仍然名声未扬,如今她的妹妹更是神秘自杀。为了赢得美人心,哈里开始调查这件事情,这时才慢慢发现,这和他们之前接手的命案竟然相关,而且背后还隐藏着一个不为人知的巨大秘密。
Harry Moseby (Gene Hackman), a worn-out private detective, is hired to look for a 16-year-old girl who has run away from the luxury home of her mother, formerly a small-time actress in Los Angeles. The more the weary cynic tries to get under the surface of the seemingly simple case, the harder it is for him to find his bearings among the lies and deceptions that surround him. Eight years after the key New Hollywood film Bonnie and Clyde, Arthur Penn and Gene Hackman reunited to collaborate on what was to become one of the most undervalued films of the decade. Like Polanski in Chinatown or Altman in The Long Goodbye, in his revisionist film noir, Penn also allows the 1940s classic genre to pervade the complex reality of the 1970s. The feelings of bitterness and emptiness in the modern Chandleresque protagonist originate not only in the “public” sphere of the strange, increasingly convoluted case, but in his private life as well (boyhood trauma, a broken marriage). As Moseby remarks of a sporting event, “nobody’s winning … one side is just losing slower than the other.”